A nice initiative set up by Derek Walsh suggested we – the dutch brewers -  should revive an old dutch beer style. Of Course we like to participate but we are Rooie Dop and we tend to do these things our way. So we hipsterized the kuit and took it to the next level – post kuit. A fully new beer style, made for you by Rooie Dop. We are proudly to present the Imperial Black Rye Kuit. It has more hops, more alcohol, more black malts and more rye. Try it at our tasting sessions!

Back by popular demand! We re-brewed the Ot! But we have to apologize a bit; this one is not that bitter. The original Ot The Elder had the incredible 327 IBUs – fresh on the hook, as we say in Holland. The Explorer only has 326 IBUs. Sorry Ot, we hope it is still bitter enough for you.In this beer we also modified the hop gifts a bit. We now used Summit hops and we left out the Simcoe unions. Of course this beer is still a dry cheek fighter and we are proud to present it to you!

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!

You might remember last year. We made an imperial stout with 99% pure chocolate and added some orange peel to gave it a nice sexy appearance for the summer. We like strong dark beers in summer. As well. Anyway, that was some pretty great experiment, though there was something missing. It was a great imperial stout witch chocolate and orange peel. Now we just want a great imperial stout. So what we did was leave out the chocolate and orange peel, tuned the malt bill a bit and pitched down the alcohol percentage just a little bit. And yes, now we have a great, plain and nice imperial stout. An Imperial Stout Without. You could perhaps call it Imperial Stout Vanilla, but that might lead to some confusion, so we decided to gave it the brilliant name Imperial Stout! Cheers!

When we are at festivals selling our commercial beers lots of people ask for a bit more easy to drink beer with a lower alcohol content. Since we agree with that suggestion and we really enjoy a good session we decided to go experimenting with the concept. After the Donna Summer Ale, this Twenty Four Seven ale is the next in line and probably this will be the marker for a new commercial beer. Don’t let the low alcohol content and easy-to-drink characteristics fool you; this will be a very tasty little devil!

Our little Battle of the Bulge. You can still smell the gun smoke here. Germany meets Belgium in this typical Belgian style abbey beer with smoked malts from Bayern. Of course we can’t just make a ‘normal’ tripel. And since this was on Jos mind for way too long now, it was just a matter of time before Rooie Dop brewed a smokey Tripel.

This beer is a slow India Pale Ale, almost an October ale. Slow in a way that it is brewed in september and still not finished. The thing is, the beer is waiting to be dry hopped and bottled. We mixed it with some nice additions from Belgium: Lambik from Girardin, Lindemans and De Troch. Yes this will be a Gueuze IPA; bitter and sour. Citra hops from the new world and Lambik from the old world. Very exciting!

Number 29 was supposed to be our first real ale. However we had some bad luck with inferior malts. This caused an unfilterable and almost sugarless mash. Since we had to do more than one batch to fill up the cask (firkin) we were out of time, so we had to put our creativity into a higher energetic orbit and we worked out something which turned out to be a true bitter lemon beer! An ale made with lime peel and lemongrass. A big cheers to innovation!

This beer is the test brew for our Daily Grind coffee Porter. We experimented with the addition of fresh Guatemala Antigua coffee in three different quantities: 5 gram, 12.5 gram and 40 gram per liter. It turned out 5 gram is more than enough. The 40 gram is solid pure espresso and the balance between caffeine and alcohol is exactly the opposite. Makes your eyes pop out. Really. ;-)