This means I should definitely get rid of my winter tires, winter jackets and all that sort of things. But most of all there should be beer for the warmer periods of the year. So last Thursday we went to De Molen and convinced Menno to help us make beers with insane amounts of hops. Great. It was a nice hot day and even the brewers from Against The Grain were at the brewery. We had a nice time, not only brewing but drinking as well. Only one small drawback: Brewing takes time. So we have to wait for a few weeks, let nature do its thing and then there will be some great Rooie Dop beers for the summer.

This evening the evening before the last queensday for the next many years. Get your Rooie Dop at the Wharf with some nice music and people! Just hurry, it’ll start very soon! Next thursday Rooie Dop leaves with a plane to Copenhagen to visit the CBC (Yes visit – we like to be on the other site of the casks as well). This is gonna be awesome already, so this means no brewing on sunday and a couple of days less Rooie Dop activity. Probably when you are a regular to our facebook you won’t even notice. Mark is so hooked, he probably gives regular updates like ‘Cleaning my toes at CBC’, ‘Waiting for toilet on CBC’, ‘Not enough women at CBC’. Whatever.

When we are back we will have a home match at De Molen! No not De Molen in Bodegraven, De Molen in Utrecht. We live in Holland, mills everywhere. Here we will be at the right side of the tap for you guys: We will be serving our beers on a hopefully nice saturday May 11th.

So yes, spring is coming and it brings a lot of good things: New beers and festivals! Enjoy!

This one sure has a long name. We took our regular Double Oatmeal Stout and put that beauty in barrels. It has been aged for five months in three different barrels: Wild Turkey, Sandalwood and Buffalo Trace.
It adds oak and sweet bourbon to the existing aroma and flavor. Sit down, relax and take your time to enjoy our Double Oatmeal Stout Bourbon Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Oatmeal Stout!

Limited, so be sure to get some!

Ladies and gentleman, we got him. We got the award for “Best new brewer in the Netherlands”!

A big thumbs up goes out to all the people that love our beer and a hugs and kisses to Brouwerij de Molen for supporting us. We hope to keep surprising you all with great beer and hope to see you at the other side of our tap someday.

More results of the RateBeer Best 2013 competition can be found on, you guessed it, the website RateBeer.

Yes. It is almost 2013. For us 2012 was a fantastic year; Our efforts gave birth to a new brewery. Uhh … Let’s also not forget our new two tiny brewers Nio and Alex. They have to cope with not drinking beer for the next 18 years. But let’s not get ahead that much. After we founded our brewery in 2012 also four new beers gave birth. Our well rounded, sexy Chica Americana. The smooth black Double Oatmeal Stout. Our strong fruity American native from Utrecht and let’s not forget the Daily Grind who will be there next year to get you up and running. ;-)

From Wormer to Kolding we hit some nice festivals to celebrate beer with you. Not to mention our beer is sold in 16 countries as we speak. Rooie Dop even survived the end of the world as a true rapture survival rookie. Anyway, we set ground in the world of beer. Something we could never have done without you! We are grateful for that. And offcourse we could never have done this without De Molen. Thanks Menno & John. Thanks to the entire De Molen crew.

So, what would 2013 bring us? Well guess … More beer! We have good ideas about new beers and even ideas for improving our existing beers. And let that be a nice bridge for a good new year wish. May your year be a great adventure in the world of beer with great well known beers and hopefully some fantastic beers you never tasted before. We sure try to brew one of them.

Autumn is passing slowly and wintertime is coming soon. Of course not without some wonderful ‘beery’ events. Last stop: Grunn. A dutch province almost below sea-level and yet still they think that there’s nothing above Grunn. That’s a delusion of grandeur we like to toast to. ;-) So we packed our stuff and spread the red caps up north. We found a great festival with lots of brewers, beer enthusiasts, good conversations, loads of smoked sausages and some Frysian humorists who were definitely outcasts in this remote land.

When we got back delusion got us as well, since our new beers were bottled and ready to hit the shelf. You probably already noted; We doubled our line-up with 10 new brews! What …? 10? Yes two. :-) Sorry about this nerdy joke, but we are quite enthusiastic about our two new beers and like to exaggerate things a bit. Though we want to stay honest of course.

And yes, we want you to share our excitement. So please check our distribution list where you can get your brand new Rooie Dop Utrecht Strong Ale and The Daily Grind brews. The new local Utrecht bar ‘De Drie Dorstige Herten’ has an own wooden keg with Rooie Dop The Daily Grind during their opening season. It is limited, so check it out! Or you can join us at some upcoming events like the Wormer Winter beer festival at december 8th. But that’s not it, so stay tuned for more. Get out of that daily grind! On the double private!