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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!

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!

Hey beer friends!

Long time, no see! Sorry for being a little quiet on the website, but there has been plenty going on. We have been at several festivals this summer season and made some fresh beer as well.

Whereabouts

A short roundup of where we have been: to start, we had a nice tasting session at ABC beers in the Hague. Not a lot of white-collars as you might expect in the city that hosts our government, but a friendly bunch of beer enthusiasts. Also, we were invited by our friends from Oedipus brewing to join the Kimchi Farm Festival in Amsterdam; great atmosphere, great people and great beers! Even further up north, we visited Wormer for a small beer festival. Weather again was fantastic and we enjoyed it very much. Check out some of the pics on facebook!

Going abroad

We didn’t just stay in Holland this summer. Denmark is always a good beer destination and we served some of our beers at the Beerday in Kolding. Besides beer, we also brought some typical Dutch stroopwafels and afterwards we spend all of our Danish Kroner in one of the best pubs of the country. We drank beers and sung songs like true vikings and …  oh wait, everything thats happened in Kolding, should stay in Kolding. ;-)
Another of our journeys this summer was southbound. Armed with jerrycans, we headed for Pajottenland, to try and score some lambics. We returned with 50 L of young and old lambic. One of the highlights of our short visit was de Troch: they sure can make some lovely lambic! Anyway, we are going to experiment with some sour beers using those lambics. Patience is a key ingredient in those kind of beers, so we will have to wait at least until next year to try them.

Brew on!

Sadly, we did not have a brew session in our little dungeon in september. But, we made that up by creating a couple of big batches at de Molen. A fresh batch of Double Oatmeal Stout has been bottled and kegged, perfect for the darker days of the year. And as expected two new members have joined our family: Nio and Alex! Aint that cool names? No, not for our beers, dont be silly! We will release the names for our two new beers soon, dont worry. Shall we tell you something about the beers itself then? Hmm, let’s save that for a next blog :P

Cheers and see you!

Hey there!

How have you all been doing lately? Enjoying a nice Chica to bring that little bit of sunlight to Holland? Or are you more into a dark roasted beer in these kinds of rainy days? Well, enough jokes have been made about the long wait for summer in Holland. Good stuff is going on all the time, so let’s focus on that!

Our 15 minutes of fame

Guess you must have heard or read about us lately? We have been in the media, getting that little bit of attention we all like to have once in a while. After our last blog, our story got picked up by a Dutch beerblog, who wrote a nice story about us. Read more about that on Dutch Beer Pages.

This got something started and we were asked for a story in the regional pages of one of Hollands largest newspapers. Plus we were invited in the studios of Business News Radio (BNR) for a short interview on our brewing escapades. Kudos to our old friend Margreeth, who made a lot of this happen! Also, friends from all over the world visited our little brewdungeon for a chat and a cheers. Read up on the travels of Tasman beer-enthusiast Adam, who writes about his (beer)travel around the world on Crafty Ramblings. Links to stories and interviews can be found on our facebook page, so make sure to follow us on social media as well ;-)

Expanding our family

In the meantime, the (biological) clock is ticking and it wont be very long before the Rooie Dop family will welcome two new little brewers. We foresee sleepless nights and less beers consumed, but it will all be worthwhile! In a beerway, we are working on expanding our family as well. We are currently working on two recipes for two new beers to brew at De Molen, which we plan to release this winter. Expect them to be related to our first two brews, most likely american-styled beers. But with a little Rooie Dop twist(ed) to it ofcourse. So, lots of good stuff to look forward to!

Meet us

You can’t wait for winter? Check our event listings on the right side of the website. We will be at some small festivals and venues to share some lovely brews and good stories. We love to meet you there, cause there ain’t no better bunch of people than beerlovers!

Cheers for now and enjoy your summer!

It is spring and we know it; Best time of the year for beer festivals. After we got home from the Copenhagen Beer Celebration it was time for us to take control at the other side of the counter. Last weekend we were tapping both our beers at the Utrechtse Bierbrouwers Festival and at Café Zomaar in Amersfoort.

We got up early since we couldn’t wait any longer to take the Rooie Dop Transporter in use for the first time! Delivery service; Hell yeah! After everything was set up, a lot of coffee and some chitchat the first people entered the beautiful domain of Molen De Ster in the centre of Utrecht. The weather was great, 1700 people came and the taps were continuously pouring beer. Seriously, Utrecht needs more brewers with such a great crowd of beer enthusiasts!

Do you see the queue in the picture? Yes, you guys were waiting patient for a long time to get our beer. We are grateful for that. And of course many thanks to the people from the Houtens Brouw Collectief, Pint and the residents of Molen De Ster.

Unfortunately taps went off at 1730. But after a good night sleep we went to Amersfoort to tap our brews at Café Zomaar together with de Eem and brew club De Amervallei. A fantastic location in the heart of Amersfoort, a good atmosphere of beer enthousiasts and great weather. Our Chica’s just love the summer.