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Kemker Kultuur

Germany · Regional · Known for Saison · Sour Ale
Known for Saison · Sour Ale

Kemker Kultuur is a farm brewery in Alverskirchen, a village in the municipality of Everswinkel southeast of Münster. Jan Kemker founded it in 2017 and turned a former cattle barn into the brewhouse a year later; since 2019 he has run it together with Nicole. The focus is Münster's historic sour beer, Münstersch Alt, here called Aoltbeer, which matures in around a hundred oak barrels and ferments with a house culture of wild yeasts and lactic bacteria. Grain comes mostly from regional organic farms, including the heritage black Pfauengerste barley grown on the farm.

10Beers
3Styles
5.8%Avg ABV
2017Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
0%
catalogue avg 12%

Beers by Kemker Kultuur

10 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Kemker Kultuur brew across 3 style families.

Signature · 10 beers
Farmhouse 5Sour 4IPA 1

Across these 10 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

dryevery beer
10 of 10 beers
sour
6 of 10 beers
citrusy
6 of 10 beers
tart
6 of 10 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Compared with 186 other breweries brewing Saison, Sour Ale and West Coast IPA:

typical for Saison, Sour Ale and West Coast IPAKemker Kultuur
in no beersin every beer
herbal
in 6 of 10 · typical Saison, Sour Ale and West Coast IPA brewery: 1 in 5
Notably more herbal than typical.
orange
in 4 of 10 · typical Saison, Sour Ale and West Coast IPA brewery: fewer than 1 in 5
Notably more orange than typical.
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.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 59%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
0 / 10
beers above the median
#2617
best ranked beer
Fliärblome

Their beers place in the Top 59% of the catalogue on average, across 10 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Kemker Kultuur

Kemker Kultuur is a farm brewery in Alverskirchen, a village in the municipality of Everswinkel southeast of Münster. Jan Kemker founded it in 2017 and turned a former cattle barn into the brewhouse a year later; since 2019 he has run it together with Nicole. The focus is Münster's historic sour beer, Münstersch Alt, here called Aoltbeer, which matures in around a hundred oak barrels and ferments with a house culture of wild yeasts and lactic bacteria. Grain comes mostly from regional organic farms, including the heritage black Pfauengerste barley grown on the farm.

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Location
Everswinkel · North Rhine-Westphalia · Germany
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