Brouwerij 't IJ (Duvel Moortgat) Reviews

jhsnitz1	3.2 't IJ Zatte Golden color with an alcohol and mildly sweet aroma. Taste is mild fruity sweet and alcohol, with a clove spice finish. Alcohol burn afterwards. Tuesday, April 23, 2024
dieter.jacobs1	3.8 't IJ 't Gouden IJ Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Borresteijn	3.6 't IJ NIJPA 33cl Fles van AH. Mistig goudgele kleur, witte kraag. Geur van Sorachi Ace, zo lijkt, vanille, bubblegum, steenvruchten, hint van kokos, citrusschil, zelfs nog degelijk bitter, licht grassig. Lichte body. Eindelijk weer eens een echt fatsoenlijk IJ bier. Saturday, April 20, 2024
tricksta_p	3.4 't IJ NIJPA Bottle from a local supermarket. Aroma is fruity hops with grass, zesty citrus, some tropical notes, pineapple, pale malt. Flavour is light to moderate bitter and light sweet. Body is medium. As expected nothing smashing from 't IJ, that said a fine IPA. Friday, April 19, 2024
DijkBier	3.9 't IJ NIJPA Bit hazy yellow-golden pour with white head, becoming fluffy rather easily, but retaining decently stil. Firm fruity aroma of pineapple, passion, guave, citrus. Taste also very fruity, starting moderate sweet, bitter and citric, and developing to a hop bitter finish. Strong carbonation. Quite a nice NEIPA; I like the fresh sense of guave/passion, the fact that it's not too sweet, and the development of taste. Friday, April 19, 2024
ResinousTeam67	3 't IJ Amarillo Red IPA Friday, April 19, 2024
hauxe	2.8 't IJ IJbok From the “Jumbo” in Arnhem. Brown with a frothy, beige head. Brown sugar in the aroma. Slightly grainy and metallic with berries and banana in the mix. Taste is mildly sweet. The uptick of bitterness at the finish has a metallic feel. Medium-bodied, moderate carbonation. Below average bock. Tuesday, April 16, 2024
ResinousTeam67	3.5 't IJ IJwit Thursday, April 11, 2024
ResinousTeam67	3 't IJ Zatte Wednesday, April 10, 2024
ResinousTeam67	4 't IJ IPA Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Zlotta	3.4 't IJ NIJPA 0.33 l bottle from 'AH XL' (Enschede), best before February 2025. Hazy, golden yellow with a medium large, frothy, slowly diminishing, white head. Sweetish, rather fruity, slightly dank and a little yeasty aroma of pineapple, passion fruit and green peppers. Slightly sweet, moderately bitter, rather fruity taste of passion fruit, pineapple and some green peppers, followed by a short, moderately bitter, slightly dry finish. Medium body, gently effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Refreshing, pleasant stuff. Monday, April 8, 2024
pauldt	3.4 't IJ IJwit Sunday, April 7, 2024
SVD	3.3 't IJ 't Gouden IJ Bottle at home, golden beer, small head. Aroma is yeast, malt, citrus, hops. Taste is the same, sweet, malt, citrus, coriander. Ok beer. Sunday, April 7, 2024
bdleedahl	3.6 't IJ 't Gouden IJ Quite good. One of their best beers for sure. Sweet full blonde with lots of esters. Sterk ams Saturday, April 6, 2024
GeertHaen	3 't IJ IJwit Friday, April 5, 2024
BBHansen	3.5 't IJ Paasij Bottle @ Friends/Dr Yeast. Appearance: pours slightly hazy golden with ok off-white soapy head and lacing. Aroma/taste: barley, bread, light brown sugar, light fruit, light alcohol, light spices and gassy notes. Palette: strong malty and yeasty aroma, average carbonation, medium to full body, medium sweetness, balanced by a medium bitterness, average duration, light sweet finish and a watery texture. Overall: very enjoyable light fruity maibock Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Wim	3.2 't IJ NIJPA thuis een troebel goud blond kleurig lichaam met een witte kop en met een tropisch fruitig zoet hop aroma een tropisch fruitig zoet hop droge bitter smaak met een bitter einde Monday, April 1, 2024
BBHansen	3.3 't IJ Columbus Bottle @ Home w friends/Maltkings. Appearance: pours clear amber with ok off-white soapy head and lacing. Aroma/taste: barley, bread, caramel, dried fruit, citrus, light alcohol, light spices and gassy notes. Palette: strong hoppy and medium yeasty aroma, average carbonation, medium to full body, medium to notable sweetness, balanced by a medium to notable bitterness, average duration, light sweet and bitter finish and a watery texture. Overall: enjoyable hoppy Belgian Sunday, March 31, 2024
mrtim1	3 't IJ IJwit Geel troebel bier met een witte schuimkraag. Smaakt eerder zoet, banaan, koreander met kruiden Saturday, March 30, 2024
thanatosti	3.1 't IJ 't Gouden IJ 33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ Albert Heijn Culemborg. 6,8% ABV. Clear golden with a white head. Coriander aroma with yeasty fruitiness. Sweet taste with a light bitter finish. Decent but boring. Monday, March 18, 2024
MashTrub61	4 't IJ Paasij Friday, March 15, 2024
Beerhunter111	2.3 't IJ Vrijwit A clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of sweet wheat malt, banana, spices. Taste of sweet breadish malt, wheat, banana and some spices. Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Beerhunter111	2.6 't IJ Blondie A clear golden yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of sweet yellow fruits, wheat malt. Taste of mild herbal and sweet pale malt, yeast and phenols. Tuesday, March 12, 2024
maupie	3.4 't IJ NIJPA 33cl fles. Tweeschijn goudgeel kleur, fijne romige witte, stabiel, blijvend en wel klevend. De geur is perzik en ananas. Smaak is zoet, grapefruit, perzik en ananas. Medium body en veel koolzuur. Sunday, March 10, 2024
widex	3.3 't IJ Paasij Saturday, March 9, 2024
harrynack	3.1 't IJ Behoorlijk Stout Thursday, March 7, 2024
Alerich	1.5 't IJ Berrie Saturday, March 2, 2024
JorisPPattyn	2.5 't IJ Vrijwit Good white head over very faintly veiled golden beer. Bit nutty nose, slightly roasted nuts even, caramel. More than a hint of coriander, fake citrus, citruspeel. Coriander, citrus, lemon. Underneath - spring water. Empty MF, very well-carbonated, ultra light. Refreshing. Mineral water with coriander and lemon. Tuesday, February 27, 2024
DijkBier	3.8 't IJ Natte Really, in all these decades I never rated this, one of their first brews?? Here it goes... Clear ruby-brown pour with tan head; good retention, decent lacing. Aroma is caramel, roasted malts, with a bit of dried fruits. Same senses in the taste; moderate sweet with a mild bitter finish; bit dry also. Firm body/bite and OK carbo. Decent double. Sunday, February 25, 2024
ostatnidzieciol	3.5 't IJ IPA Złote, lekko zamglone, ładna piana, zdobiąca szkło. W zapachu cytrusy, żywica, słodowość, perfumy. W smaku lekka słodycz, wyraźna goryczka. Po +0,5 za aromat i smak. Sunday, February 25, 2024
janneke_vl	2.9 't IJ Behoorlijk Stout Een lekker zwaar biertje met een kerse en chocolade smaak Saturday, February 24, 2024
Borresteijn	2.5 't IJ 82 Grape Ale 33cl Fles van De Bierkoning. Goudgele kleur, witte kraag. Zwavel, druiven, rubber, dennen, gist is aardig uit de bocht gevlogen, het resultaat is niet heel aangenaam. Lichte body. Thursday, February 22, 2024
TomHendriksen	3.6 't IJ El Dorado Hoppy Lager Fles gedeeld door Roelzie. Het is een goudgeel bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een aroma van hop en citrus. De smaak is vol hoppig en citrus achtig met een bittere afdronk. Thursday, February 22, 2024
smullieafca	3.7 't IJ 't Gouden IJ Thursday, February 22, 2024
djsanti	3.3 't IJ Natte Wednesday, February 21, 2024
harrynack	3.1 't IJ Ginger Paradise Saturday, February 10, 2024
Rune	3.4 't IJ IPA 330ml bottle at Vinos Handeland. Hazy orange coloured body, clingy lacing from a covering white head. Inviting smell of grassy hops withe a citric scent. Fine blended taste profile, moments of citrus, dried fruits, and biscuit. Rounded citric bitter end. Fine partner to our cheese. Likeable. (La Vila Joiosa, 09.02.2024). Saturday, February 10, 2024
Alengrin	3.4 't IJ El Dorado Hoppy Lager Lager hopped with "different hop varieties" which sadly remain undisclosed, though the very name of the beer (El Dorado) reveals at least one of them... One of the newer IJ beers, now under the experienced guidance and commercial exploitation of Moortgat; longneck bottle from the Albert Heijn supermarket in Lokeren. Thick, even somewhat foamy, egg-white, cobweb-lacing, audibly fizzing, very moussey, bit coarse, stable head on a crystal clear pure golden blonde beer with 'old gold' tinge and some disparate sparkling, misty with sediment. Aroma of half-dry lime and grapefruit peel, raw cereals, freshly cut grass, iron but not too obnoxiously so - as in raw spinach rather than actual iron objects, cooked broccoli but not too DMS-like (pasteurisation however seeming unlikely due to it at least being unfiltered), moist white pepper and quite a lot of it, overheated cotton cloth, fresh young mugwort, moss, very vague green mango somewhere, minerals. Crisp onset, some basic malt fruitiness (pear in this case) but no esters, sweetish with a dim sourish undertone, minerally carbonation as well as a slight metallic effect; smooth mouthfeel, slick cereally pale maltiness with the faintest touch of biscuit, under growing grassy hops, providing a mild yet still effective end bitterness as well as retronasal impressions of dried lime peel, freshly cut grass and vague background echoes of lemongrass and pomelo - but nowhere near as outspoken as they should be in a true IPL. Some mildly spicy bitterness lingers, but so do a 'cooked cloth'-like pasteurisation effect and a bland, straightforward pale malt sweetishness, the sweet element of which eventually began to bother me. IPL gone industrial, one could state; indeed hoppier than the average Dutch macro pale lager, but this is its only redeeming feature, in its core this is basically another simplistic pale lager hauling from a brewery that once pioneered the great Dutch craft beer movement, spiced up with an injection of New World hops which we are apparently not allowed to identify. I do not expect anything truly good to come out of 't IJ anymore after the Moortgat takeover - but now that I come to think of it and with a few scarce exceptions, they were never that great anyway in the eighties and nineties, at least not from a Belgian perspective. But that is history and now is today, of course... I can accept this as an IPL, though, and it clearly stands above the familiar range of macro-brewed, standardised supermarket lagers, there is no denying that. Saturday, February 10, 2024
Rubin77	3.5 't IJ IJbok 33cl bottle from Jumbo supermarket in Stein, Netherlands. F: medium, tanned, average retention. C: dark brown with coppery tones. A: banana, apples, light roasted tones, spicy touch. T: medium to full malty base, light roasted tones, cocoa, coffee, banana, red apples, bready, nice balanced bitterness, caramel, bit nutty, medium carbonation, nice nourishing bock, enjoyed for sure, classic for the style. Sunday, February 4, 2024
Rubin77	3.3 't IJ Ginger Paradise 33cl bottle from Jumbo supermarket in Stein, Netherlands. F: medium, egg-white, good retention. C: deep gold, light hazy. A: malty, ginger, fruity, bit caramel. T: medium malty base, fruity, ginger, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, grapefruits, ok for ginger beer, enjoyed. Sunday, February 4, 2024
ReuvenSmienk	3.3 't IJ Natte Helder koperkleurig bier met een beige vingerdikke schuimkraag van gemiddelde structuur die snel inzakt. Ik ruik een geur van caramel, rood gedroogd fruit en hout. In de smaak voert de caramel weer de boventoon. Zit ook wat waterigs in, terwijl het mondgevoel ook wat zachts heeft. Friday, February 2, 2024
mike_77	3 't IJ 84 Roasted Amber Clear amber colour with fluffy head. Nice toasted malt taste. Good balance of bitter and sweet but in general very basic and certainly worse than cheaper alternatives like De Koninck or Palm for example. Thursday, February 1, 2024
mike_77	2.3 't IJ 83 Citrus Ale Clear golden colour with thin head. Really awful medicinal taste. Seems like clove. Terrible. Thursday, February 1, 2024
Diederik	4.5 't IJ 't Gouden IJ Saturday, January 27, 2024
mrtim1	2.5 't IJ 't Gouden IJ Goudgeel bier met een witte schuimkraag. Smaakt zoet, citrus maar helaas ook koreander wat het voor mij een zeep smaak geeft . Er zit ook haast geen bubbels in . Friday, January 26, 2024
mjik83	3.3 't IJ 't Gouden IJ 33cl flesje via Parkshop Coldenhove, Eerbeek Alcoholpercentage van 7,5% Uitgeschonken in Hopt glas LCI 21-1-2024 Uiterlijk: goudkleurig met goede witte schuimkraag Aroma en smaak: zoetmoutig, fruitig, banaan, citrus, licht hopbittertje. Vlak biertje. Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Moretum	3.5 't IJ Zatte Trübe goldene Farbe mit weißer Schaumkrone. Malziger, fruchtiger Geruch. Geschmacklich malzig, fruchtig, leicht hefig, leicht grasig hopfig. Mittlere Süße mit mittlerer Bitterkeit, mittlerer Körper mit spürbarer Kohlensäure. Wednesday, January 24, 2024
IPARater72	3.2 't IJ Vrijwit Slightly cloudy yellow pour with a small white head. Aromas are malt, yeast, orange, other citrus and then some marmelade. Taste is malt, orange, coriander, some yeast. Not bad for an AF and close to a full fat wit. Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Rubin77	3.2 't IJ 't Gouden IJ 33cl bottle from Albert Heijn Knokke-Heist supermarket. F: medium, white, average retention. C: pale gold, light hazy. A: malty, banana, bit honey, citrus touch. T: medium to full malty base, banana, apples, honey, bit spicy, decent bitterness, bready, bit simple yet ok for the style, drinkable. Saturday, January 20, 2024
DrNosha	3.6 't IJ Berrie 0,33l Flasche aus Maastricht. Trüb kupferrot, heller Schaum. Beeriger Duft. Antrunk natürliche Himbeere. Bier ist auch schön da. Nur mild Süss. Beeriges Finish. Wenn low, dann so! Saturday, January 20, 2024