About us

  • About us

    Quality beers with a quirky twist. With a lot of knowledge, enthusiasm and the right ingredients, Bird Brewery brews delicious, award-winning beers. Discover it now!

The Brewery

Vision

We brew craft beers for a wide audience. Characteristic is the balance in the beers, making the ingredients stand out nicely.

History

A little retrospective of our short history.

Our very first beer, Rumoerige Roodborst, came out in 2016. It was rated as one of the best Amber Ales in the world on reviewsite Ratebeer.com. A fantastic start. In the following months, we released our first four beers.

We continued our growth in 2017. During the Dutch Beer Challenge we won several awards, including Netherlands best IPA and Saison. We were the best Dutch newcomer in the beer market. On an international level, we won 10 awards that year with our beers during World Beer Awards, International Beer Challenge and Brussels Beer Challenge.

During the largest beer election in the Netherlands, in 2018 we were one of the two most successful microbreweries. In the meantime our beers are already sold at about 1,000 establishments and specialty beer shops. In 2018 we also traveled throughout the country for the Bird Collab Tour and brew 12 collabs with befriended breweries.

We are true enthusiasts of birds and nature, since our start we are concerned with sustainability. So in 2019 we donate 1.2 million litres of drinking water ourselves and we will plant 10,000 trees. We collabarate with hospitality businesses and specialty beer shops, together with them we are able to achieve these good figures. We are enourmously proud of this. 

 

The Birdies

Rik van den Berg

Rik van den Berg

Co-Founder & Beer Sommelier

Rik is one of the youngest Biersommeliers in the Netherlands, active for years as an enthusiastic home brewer and chairman of beer society ’t Nieuweland. His love for specialty beer is beyond dispute. At Bird Brewery he wants to share his knowledge about beer with the world!

rik@birdbrewery.com

Ralph van Bemmel

Ralph van Bemmel

Co-Founder & Beer Sommelier

By his father at a young age immersed in the world of birds. At Bird Brewery, Ralph can combine this passion with his other passion: beer. With a background in the beer world, a training course at StiBON (Beer education) and a lot of energy, this Goldcrest is exactly where he wants.

ralph@birdbrewery.com

Michiel van der Drift

Michiel van der Drift

Accountmanager & Beer Sommelier

International beer sommelier Michiel has been in love with craft beer for years. This bird wanders through many establishments and is not afraid to share his knowledge. Training, tastings and beer festivals: he loves it all!

michiel@birdbrewery.com

Erik van Bemmel

Erik van Bemmel

Graphic designer

From day 1 the designer at Bird Brewery. He took a course in graphic design, then did the fotovakschool (photography). He is responsible for a lot of creativity. Moreover, the best birdwatcher in the office.