What a great place - I totally fell in Love with this place and Leen and Dirk, the owners! They love what they do and this shows up at Kulminator in every single thing. This place has an amazing feeling. All those details on the walls, the unbelievable menue with all the vintage treasures - a journey! The beergarden which was great to sitin the afternoon. All the facilities are clean. The snacks - spicey sausages and cheese came in various styles and were great!

If there is a heaven, this must be it! Ambiance is very friendly, like you are in an old living-room. They played some weird too easy-listening abbey-music. Service is usually very good, proper glassware and very friendly, but when it is very crowdy, it can sometimes be quite difficult to order. But who can blame the two owners for that? They just have too much quality beers! I was actually a bit disappointed they didn’t have that broad range of tap beers (like in de Wildeman, A’dam has), but the selection of aged beers definitely makes up for that. This was my first time in heaven, but surely not the last time!

Lets see the evening started of with and 1986 Westy 6, then a 1989 Westy 12 on the old yeast.Then I asked about a Drie Fountain Framboise that wasn’t on the menu and it magically appeared all at reasonable prices. Had to go back once more and only time for one beer a 1982 Thomas Hardy. Wish this place was in my back yard.

Beautiful place, great selection of Belgian special beers, you must visite this place!!!

This is THE place for the serious beerlover (others may feel less welcome, though). The owners Leen and Dirk are extremely knowledgable, I believe there are few that can match their knowledge of Belgian beer. No visit to Belgium is complete without several evenings here- it is a world classic. (So maybe best to avoid a visit when the rest of the beer world drops by for the 24 uur and the Christmas beer festivals- you will enjoy your visit more at quieter times)

Not much to add. THE place for any serious ratebeerian. And they have a cat :)

What can I say? Together with Akkurat in Stockholm and Stuffed Sandwich in L.A. this is a top 3 bar of the world (that I have visited anyways......). Enormous selection of vintage which really is the reason why you should come here! Extremely rare finds Stille Nacht Reserva, Dulle Reve Reserva, Cantillon Framboise ’79, Chimay Blue 81-05 etc. I could spend weeks here!

Loved the decor. They have an amazing array of beers obviously but I found the list quite hard to navigate. Courage Stout from 83 was in magnificent condition but Oerbier from a year or two back was not. It’s a great place, but I didn’t feel particularly welcome really. Update: Had a FAR better experience at the LCRBM07 and subsequent session in the bar. Dirk was in top form and we just kept drinking amazing beer after amazing beer - 20 year old Rose de Gambrinus, 10 year old Hanssens Kriek, Avec Les Bons Voeux on tap.... I get it now.

I would be in heaven if I could live above a bar like this. Great- no, awesome selection, even that doesn’t do it justice; the beer menu is an inch thick!!! Nice quiet atmosphere non invasive and respectful staff, a few locals and a friendly cat. Man it’s like being invited to share someones lounge room and finding out they have the best beer cellar in the world, I cant rave highly enough.

Everyone knows of the Kulminator. Amazing vintage collection, including stuff from the 60’s through the 80’s. I was also amazed at the pristine condition of all the vintage beers I sampled, as most of them showed very little oxidation, even though they were 10-20 years old. Not my favorite bar for several reasons, but still a must visit for you.