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Who will you run into in the brewery and brewpub?

The team

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Brewing is our thing, beer is our water!

Beer brewing

Yeast converts the sugars in the wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide. This carbon dioxide is also an important flavor contributor in the final beer. Often, after fermentation, we add a certain amount of carbon dioxide to the beer to achieve the exact desired level. One beer may have more carbonation than another, and this also contributes to the beer's taste.

06. Carbonation

Hops provide bitterness and aroma to beer. In addition to the noble hop varieties, there are now a vast number of varieties, each with their own aroma, flavor, and bitterness. So, it's wonderful for creating beautiful beers!

03. Hops

Malt is produced in the malt house. When barley or other grains are moistened, they begin to sprout. The enzymes in the germ convert the starch into sugar. Before this process is complete, it is halted by heating it. For light beers, the malt is only heated enough to dry it. For dark beers, malt that has been heated to a high temperature during drying is used. The sugars already present darken under the influence of amino acids and temperature. Coffee, chocolate, dried fruit are all flavors that can be achieved in the malt and the final beer with this process.

02. Malt

Occasionally, but really only occasionally, we also add spices to our beer. Actually, it's only in the case of De Heemraad, our wheat beer. Because that's where it belongs. Coriander and dried orange peel. If you don't put those in, it becomes more like a weizen. That's German. But still tasty.

05. Spices

What can you find in your glass?

Ingredients of beer

Every beer consists largely of water. Our beers are no exception to this. We use fresh tap water from Almkerk.

01. Water

Yeast converts the sugar from the malt into alcohol and carbon dioxide. So, it's pretty important stuff. In addition, yeast contributes various flavors and aromas. Depending on the temperature during fermentation, it imparts (amongst others) spiciness or fruity aromas.

04. Yeast

We brew beers we love to drink ourselves!

Making beer is perhaps most similar to cooking. Knowledge of ingredients and the process are both important. When you then combine everything according to a recipe and follow the right steps, you have beer. Or food. Whether it's delicious, you only find out afterward. And that's what we're primarily focused on at the very beginning of the process. The choice of malts, hops, and yeast largely determines what the resulting beer will be. Searching for combinations, tasting a lot, and making adjustments ensure that we create the tastiest beers and continue to develop them.

What types of beer do we make and why?

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Our menu

Open on Thursdays from 16:00 and on Friday and Saturday from 12:00. We close at 23:00 on all our opening days.

Drink our beer in our brewpub De Magistraat

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With attention to the raw materials (animal and land), we choose our products. Everything is prepared with care. As much as possible is done in-house by our chef, whether it's on the smoker or in the kitchen. Everything receives the attention it needs, and of course, it arrives on your plate absolutely fresh. If you have any special dietary requirements, please let us know in advance so that we can take them into account.