Grolsche Bierbrouwerij
Grolsche Bierbrouwerij, commercially known as Royal Grolsch, was founded in 1615 in Groenlo (then called Grol) by Willem Neerfeldt, making it one of the oldest breweries in the Netherlands. The brewery relocated to a modern facility near Enschede, which has been its operational home since 2004. Grolsch received the Royal designation in 1995. In 2016 it was sold by AB InBev to the Japanese company Asahi Breweries as part of a regulatory divestment linked to the AB InBev–SABMiller merger. The brewery is internationally recognised for its swing-top bottle.
Beers by Grolsche Bierbrouwerij
15 beers
← scroll to see all 15 beers →
The recurring character behind the beers
Grolsche Bierbrouwerij brew across 3 style families.
Across these 15 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Grolsch Rijke Herfstbok
Their beers place in the Top 55% of the catalogue on average, across 13 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
Similar Breweries
hopIQ exclusiveBased on style overlap and flavor profile
About Grolsche Bierbrouwerij
Grolsche Bierbrouwerij, commercially known as Royal Grolsch, was founded in 1615 in Groenlo (then called Grol) by Willem Neerfeldt, making it one of the oldest breweries in the Netherlands. The brewery relocated to a modern facility near Enschede, which has been its operational home since 2004. Grolsch received the Royal designation in 1995. In 2016 it was sold by AB InBev to the Japanese company Asahi Breweries as part of a regulatory divestment linked to the AB InBev–SABMiller merger. The brewery is internationally recognised for its swing-top bottle.
Other breweries from Netherlands