The Stillery’s Ouwe, is our organic and remarkably friendly old style genever. It contains 27% malt wine and is distilled with some quite common botanicals like juniper and aniseed, and some rather unusual botanicals like hops and poppy seeds. Ouwe is best paired with your favorite craft beers.
An Organic old genever like no other. Crafted from real grain. Made in Amsterdam from grain to glass.
July 2017 - present
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Aniseed and hop make this a suprisingly fresh old genever best paired with white ales.
2020 IWSC Jenever Silver | 2019 Diamond awards Silver | 2021 Gold World Gin Awards - Best Dutch Genever
The Stillery’s Ouwe, is our organic and remarkably friendly old style genever. It contains 27% malt wine and is distilled with some quite common botanicals like juniper and aniseed, and some rather unusual botanicals like hops and poppy seeds. Ouwe is best paired with your favorite craft beers.
The Stillery’s Ouwe is our spirit of choice to pair with a range of hoppy craft beers. In the Netherlands, we like to drink our beer with a “kopstootje”. This typically is a tulip glass or elegant shot glass filled to the brim with Genever. We don’t shoot, we nip and enjoy, it’s a tradition. The Stillery’s Ouwe is distilled with Citra & Amarillo hops. These hops pair really well with the more hoppy pale ales out there.
Here at The Stillery, we do everything from grain-to-glass. We start with the real stuff, the malted grain. This gives us a lot of control in the distillation process. To make a malt wine out of spelt grain, first we mash the grains. Secondly, we feed it to the yeast beasts in our fermenters. Then, after two weeks, the yeast is done and the mash is ready to be distilled. Once distilled, we redistill the malt wine together with all the botanicals. But we’re not done yet…
The Stillery’s Ouwe Genever is aged in a bourbon barrel for a period of six months. We always use bourbon barrels because this wood is full of great flavors. After six months you’ll find aromas of caramel, grain, vanilla as well as nutty notes in our genever.
The Stillery’s Ouwe Genever has won a silver diamond award in 2019. It was one of two Dutch brands winning a silver quality award in the 2020 International Wine & Spirits Competition (IWSC). Ironically no gold medals were awarded that year. In 2021 our genever won a gold medal in the World Spirit Competition as well as Best Dutch Jenever.
You can get your hands on a bottle of hoppy and poppy Ouwe right here!
