Oedipus Craft Space
The Oedipus Craft Space is open!
You can find us at Schaafstraat 21.
Opening times taproom and kitchen:
Wednesday 16:00 – 23:00
Thursday 16:00 – 23:00
Friday 16:00 – 01:00
Saturday 14:00 – 01:00
Sunday 14:00 – 23:00
For reservations email: taproom@oedipus.com
☆.。.:*・* ✧ LIFT OFF・OEDIPUS x WYNAND FOCKINK ☆.。.:*・* ✧
17-10-2024
We have some spectacular news. A project we’ve been brewing on for quite some time is finally ready for lift off. Together with Wynand Fockink, a famous Amsterdam distillery with 345 years of experience, we have made a new, daring interpretation of genever.
Our collaborative IPA Genever Any Upside Down is distilled from Oedipus’ Gaia. With the beer’s reflections shimmering through the surface, the genever offers a profile with grapefruit, hops, and pine needle flavours. Whether drunk straight up or any upside down, it has a delicate freshness and aromatic twist.
Our worlds also come together in the unique label. For the first time, Wynand Fockink has deviated from their classic design, and instead the label show a great collision. Through the transparent label on the front, the visual fireworks of the rear label shine through bottle, provided with a small secret message. Like a big bang and a small light, this genever radiates infinity.
…and guess what sweeties.
We’re launching this one with a bang 💥 at Oedipus Craft Space on November 14th. Stay tuned on our socials for information on the official lift off of the Any Upside Down. We will be joined by brewers from both Oedipus and Wynand Fockink, and some real space scientists.. see you there.
TOPJAW AT OEDIPUS
30-09-2024
Check out how the *famous* vloggers from TOPJAW came to visit the Oedipus Craft Space.
NEW CANS
27-09-2024
There they are! Some of our most beloved beers have made the switch from bottles to cans. Look at them shine ✨
Pictures by Marina Chef
FALL SEASONAL MADELEINE IS BACK
21-09-2024
You wouldn’t believe it but Fall is officially here, which means our Madeleine is back! Tonight you can try her again for the first time, fresh from the tank.
Our fall seasonal Madeleine is a 6% bottom fermented Bock beer made with Hallertau Tradition and Spalt hops. In French, you have the saying “C’est ma Madeleine de Proust”. It means that a certain smell or aroma brings back memories. The saying derived from Marcel Proust – the famous French writer – who was reminded of his childhood when he smelled the aroma of the Madeleine butter cake. We had to think of that story when brewing Madeleine.
Madeleine has a very chocolate-like malty character. Besides her soothing caramel and chocolate aromas, Madeleine has a rich palette with toasted flavors. With subtle late and dry hop additions adding some extra herbal and spicy notes to the beer.
Picture by Marina Chef
LOOKING BACK AT THE ORDER TATOO JAM 2024
17-09-2024
Pictures by Kelt van Meursen
ONE BEER ONE RECORD, LIVE FROM PARADE
16-09-2024
In One Beer One Record we invite artists to join us for a show where their favourite songs are paired with surprising drinks. Hoster by Rick Nelson.
This year, to celebrate our collaborative beer TADA, we went to traveling theatre festival Parade in Amsterdam. We talked to Rosa Asbreuk and Kyrian Esser from De Theatertroep, a collective that has been performing at Parade for ten years. This year their show Vaudeville: 10 years was a resume of the best of the worst and worst of the best of all time – from comedy to tragedy, entertaining and intellectual. Current, satirical, absurd, with the occasional dance and a good stumble.
Check them out on: www.theatertroep.nl
Fun songs from their performances and boomers getting us in trouble.
We also talked to Merel Severs of The Drek Manor, a completely unique drag variety show with creatures you will only encounter there. Ranging from polished queens/kings/queers to more experimental drag performers, it’s not just dra, it’s DREK MANOR.
Check them out on: www.instagram.com/thedrekmanor
Very extra show tunes and dark beers.
Our host Rick Nelson sat down and had some more spontaneous interviews with all kinds of characters. He was joined by Oedipus’ Sander Nederveen and Parade’s Leonard van Buitenen to talk about how TADA was developed. Barmanager Pien Koot from the Katrina bar came by to talk about the thousands of TADAs she served and how to maintain good vibes at all times. And last but certainly not least, we discussed the weather with Parade’s Ray van Santen and Oedipus’ Matthijs Booij.
BIG MUSIC, NICE FLYER
05-09-2024
September 13
Free entry
TADA! GOOD TIMES AT PARADE
29-08-2024
Our One Beer One Record shows will be available online soon. Thanks de Theatertroep & Drek Manor for stopping by 🍻
The Oedipus x Parade beer Tada is available at Parade until this Sunda at the festival.
Pictures by Marina Chef
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COME FIND US AT PARADE TOMORROW
28-08-2024
We’re hosting a One Beer One Record radio show at the Katrina where our host Rick Nelson will talk to special guests de Theatertroep about their favourite tracks and favourite drinks. The floor will also be open to impromptu guests and performers, so there might be some surprises.
Together with Parade we made a beer called TADA. It’s a 5% citrus witbier, made by Oedipus and Parade. It’s light and delightful, and has a nice layer of a fruity, citrussy and slightly tart taste that invites you to dig deeper.
Come try & say hi!
CLUB PARADISE ✌🏼IBES
23-08-2024
DODO
22-08-2024
DODO, still going strong for the last few weeks of the hot season.
For our summer seasonal we’ve revived the California common: a classic American style that drinks like a pilsner but tastes like an IPA.
Dodo is a tribute to two beers that launched the US craft beer revolution: Anchor Brewery’s Steam Beer and Liberty Ale. The combination of lager yeast and caramel malts is inspired by Steam Beer, while the use of Cascade hops pays homage to Liberty Ale – the first beer to showcase the grapefruit and citrus flavours that would change the way hops were used forever.
Dodo is hopped to the same levels as these iconic beers – enough for you to appreciate the hops, but not be overwhelmed by them.
Delicious. Don’t let your Dodo overflow tho 🍻
Picture by Marina Chef.
OEDIPUS CRAFT SPACE DJ TEAM IS BACK
20-08-2024
Parade has arrived in Amsterdam, and our Oedipus Craft Space DJ Team is back!
To celebrate our collaborative beer TADA, we host another night at the Katrina.
This Thursday Fininho & DAYZ will lighting up the dance floor from 17:00 – 23:00.
TADA a 5% citrus witbier, made by Oedipus and Parade. It’s light and delightful, and has a nice layer of a fruity, citrussy and slightly tart taste that invites you to dig deeper.
Come try & say hi!
🌴 CLUB PARADISE 🌴
17-08-2024
Club Paradise at Lowlands Festival, the premiere the collaboration beer Oedipus and Lowlands made together.
During Lowlands, thousands of people gather, collectively looking for delight, desire and some dancing. And Oedipus and Lowlands wanted to make a beer to capture that feeling. Something fresh and delightful.
It’s a relatively dry white beer (5%) with hoppy citrus flavours and fresh mandarin peel. But much like the festival Lowlands itself, besides giving us big headliners, for those who are curious, Club Paradise also offers much more to discover. Due to an addition of green pepper, this beer might give you a small spicy kick.
Club Paradise represents longing, although it can look different for everyone. Maybe it is a longing for your childhood with carefree summer holidays, a longing for a tropical beach and a coconut with a straw under a parasol, maybe it is a longing for a sweaty crowd at a festival. Whatever it is, in Club Paradise, everyone can find their own.
Club Paradise is exclusively available from 16 – 18 August at Lowlands Festival at the special Oedipus Bar and Bierlokaal.
See you there!
Picture by Marina Chef
TADA! TODAY IS THE START OF PARADE AMSTERDAM
16-08-2024
Oedipus and theatre festival Parade made a beer together that’s available all summer at Parade while they make their way across the country.
Today they strike down in Amsterdam, the fifth and last city of the tour. Until September 1 you can enjoy theatre, dance, music and the whole wondrous world that is Parade. Our collaborative beer TADA is a 5% citrus witbier that is light, but has a nice layer of a fruity, citrusy and slightly tart taste that invites you to dig deeper.
We will join Parade Amsterdam on Thursday 22 August with the Oedipus Craft Space DJ Team, and on Thursday 29 August with a special program of ‘One Beer One Record’ interviews.
Check out the full program & tickets at www.deparade.nl
CLUB PARADISE
15-08-2024
Club Paradise at Lowlands. All weekend at the special Oedipus Bar, come find us!
OEDIPUS CRAFT SPACE OPEN ALL WEEKEND
10-08-2024
Pictures by Marina Chef
OEDIPUS CRAFT SPACE DJ TEAM AT PARADE
06-08-2024
Oedipus Craft Space DJ Team at @theaterfestivaldeparade!
To celebrate our collaborative beer TADA, our Oedipus DJ team is heading to Parade Utrecht to have some fun and get you dancing.
This Thursday we have sweetie pies Big Sokka & Papi Gaba in the booth of the church Katrina from 17:00 – 23:00.
TADA a 5% citrus witbier, made by Oedipus and Parade. It’s light and drinkable, but has a nice layer of a fruity, citrussy and slightly tart taste that invites you to dig deeper.
Come try & say hi!
Check out the full program & tickets at www.deparade.nl
SAD
05-08-2024
… that @moutbierfestival Tilburg this weekend was cancelled because all the early summer rain SADly drowned the festival location.
See you next year tho 🐩
WE GOT YOUR BACK…
02-08-2024
We got your back… with a special Mannenliefde sunscreen! As delicious as a Mannenliefde beer, but without the spicy Sichuan pepper, so you won’t get burned and crispy.
You can find this dispenser on the Craft Space terrace, and if you order two Mannenliefde at the bar you can also get a tube for free!
SAFETY THIRST
TADA! WE HAVE SOMETHING NEW 🎉
01-08-2024
Maybe you already spotted it, but Oedipus and theatre festival Parade made a beer together! It’s available all summer at Parade while they make their way across the country.
TADA is beer that embodies the wondrous world of Parade, where people come to dream and to be awoken, to float and to be grounded. It’s a 5% citrus witbier, that is light and drinkable, but has a nice layer of a fruity, citrusy and slightly tart taste that invites you to dig deeper.
Parade is currently in Utrecht where we will join them with our Oedipus Craft Space DJ Team on Thursday 8 August. You can also find our team at Parade Amsterdam on 22 and 29 August.
Check out the full program & tickets at www.deparade.nl
GETTING READY FOR A WARM WEEKEND 🐶
18-07-2024
Pictures by Marina Chef
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DODO RELEASE
17-07-2024
This Friday we host a sunny summer DJ night to honour our summer seasonal Dodo. Oh, have we missed her.
It’s the first time we got some DJs back in the taproom, and they will entertain you all night long.
We will serve you Dodo straight from the tank for €4,00 – one night only!
We’re opened from 16:00 – 00:00, the Beef Chief kitchen is opened from 16:00 and 21:30.
During our weeks of soft landing we have a max. capacity of 250 people.
THERE IS MORE TO SEE THAN CAN EVER BE SEEN…
01-07-2024
Mout Bier Festival Zwolle this weekend.
SOME VIEWS FROM OUR SUN SOAKED TERRACE
11-07-2024
Pictures by Marina Chef
WE OPEN TODAY
27-06-2024
We are ready to soft launch our Craft Space.
After months of prep, one of these doors will open and we would like to invite you to come take a look at our new taproom and brewery, but preferably not all at the same time 😉
This week we’ll open from Thursday to Sunday, from 16:00 – 00:00 and we have a max. capacity of 250 people. You can find us at Schaafstraat 21.
For the coming weeks, we’ll post an announcement with that week’s program and opening times.
Join us for drinks, food, friends & family.
MOUT FESTIVAL
17-06-2024
See you at Mout Bier Festival Nijmegen this weekend 🍭
CUTE COLOURS AND SHAPES FROM THE OEDIPUS CRAFT SPACE
13-06-2024
LOCATION REVEAL
03-06-2024
EXPERIMENTS WITH JAPANESE KNOTWEED
26-05-2024
At the invitation of Mediamatic, our head brewer Sander Nederveen has been experimenting with trying to concoct something out of Japanese knotweed.
In The Netherlands, the Japanese knotweed is an incredibly invasive plant species. It proliferates wildly across our country, suffocating all planting that surrounds it, and because of its large underground network of roots it is very hard to eradicate.
Every spring, Mediamatic organises a festival around Japanese knotweed to explore its positive properties, including its surprising edibility. For this event Sander picked some knotweed, squeezed all the juice out with a roller press, and made a drinkable juice and syrup.
On Friday, Sander together with artist Henriette Waal will take out their juicer once again for a workshop you can join. And in the afternoon there is a special tasting with some experimental Knotweed-infused beer.
*delicious knotweed juice
BAR STAFF WANTED
21-05-2024
Oedipus is looking for new members for the bar staff team of our soon to open Oedipus Craft Space.
The Craft Space is our new homebase and the vibrant heart of our brewery where we brew our beer everyday and welcome our friends. We’re looking for colourful, creative and curious minds with a strong love for anything related to beer, music, arts and people.
Sound like you? Come and join us!
Please email us (in English if possible) at workhoreca@oedipus.com.
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REMIX IS READY FOR THE LAST MONTH OF SPRING
20-05-2024
THREE WINNING STARS AT THE DUTCH BEER CHALLENGE!
16-05-2024
Two golden and one bronze medal for:
Pilsner – gold in the category Blond : Hoppy Lager
País Tropical – gold in the category Amber Ale : Session IPA
Pamela Vintage 2022 – bronze in the category Innovation/Special : Sour/Brett
SOME GLIMPSES OF OUR CRAFT SPACE IN THE MAKING
15-05-2024
Cannot wait to show you all.
TAKE ME TO MY BEACH
14-05-2024
COCOBOLO LIVE AT THE TAPROOM FAREWELL PARTY
02-05-2024
Pictures by @keltvan
TAPROOM FAREWELL PARTY
01-05-2024
New location in the works. Stay tuned.
Pictures by @kimwinder
MAKING IT ALL FIT
30-04-2024
Thanks Francisco!
LA BANDA FANTASTICA
26-04-2024
La Banda Fantástica at the Taproom Farewell Party. Pictures by @kimwinder
VIBES FROM OUR TAPROOM FAREWELL PARTY
24-04-2024
Blurry and buzzy. It was quite something. Thanks everyone for coming. It was the goodest goodbye of all. Pictures by @keltvan.
WE HAVE A LIFT OFF
15-04-2024
SANDER’S LIBRARY OF DUSTY BEERS
11-04-2024
Because we’re moving soon we’re cleaning out our old archive, and Oedipus founder and head brewer Sander Nederveen found some really special things to share with you :)) Some of which may or may not have expired many moons ago. Still worth a try!
You can find Sander’s Library at the special bar between 17:00 and 19:00, this Saturday 13 April.
p.s. RIP spidey
COCOBOLO AT THE TAPROOM FAREWELL PARTY LIVE
11-04-2024
Imagine a band that makes images that become songs that become stories that become movies. A band that moves through a myriad of backdrops and colours takes you from one adventure into another, running wild with your imagination until you are happy and exhausted.
That band is Cocobolo.
At our Taproom Farewell Party on 13 April they play at 17:30. Come run with us.
FULL LINE UP FOR SATURDAY
10-04-2024
All friends, all fun, all for you <3
JOIN US FOR A LAST AUF WIEDERSEHEN GOODBYE
09-04-2024
LA BANDA FANTÁSTICA AT THE TAPROOM FAREWELL PARTY LIVE
07-04-2024
Converging from all corners of the Latin America, with a local Dutch spice, La Banda Fantástica are the Cumbia heroes we need right now. We can’t wait to see this six piece with their conga set in action.
At our Taproom Farewell Party on 13 April they play at 21:15. Come see if they all fit on our tiny stage!
SPECIAL EDITION ART CAN BY ISA GRÜTTER AND MICK JOHAN
06-04-2024
For their upcoming exhibition I will fight you forever artist Isa Grütter and Mick Johan made a Special Edition Art Can. The artists joined forces and black pencils, and made a collection of sexy, sad and violent drawings that will be on view at Galerie de Schans until May 26.
The can comes in an edition of 500 and contains Oedipus Strip. It is exclusively available at the opening next week Friday 12 April, so make sure to come! From 17:00 at Warmoesstraat 67.
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THE HOMESICK AT TAPROOM FAREWELL PARTY LIVE
04-04-2024
Yeehaa. Whenever we plan an event and think, ahhh what would be a nice band to book, we somewhat jokingly say that in any case, the best band to ask is always *The Homesick* And now here they are.
These Groningen weirdos fuse their post-punk rhythms with melodic whimsical pop and somehow only make great songs. Whatever instruments they touch, and they touch quite a few, together they are always unmistakably, The Homesick.
For our Taproom Farewell Party on 13 April, they have a late shift and start at 23:45. Because this night, they come to dance.
NOT BEFORE WE SAY GOODBYE
29-03-2024
The time has come. We are saying farewell to our home at Gedempt Hamerkanaal 85 to set course to a new destination.
For the past ten years GH85 has been the heart of our operation. It’s where we have created, learned, matured, failed and flourished. It has truly been a blast, and of course we want to give it a proper sendoff.
On Saturday 13 April, we will celebrate in the long night of cheers, tears & beers, and we would love for you to all be there.
We have a full night of fun planned. Our brewers will dust off things from the archive at the Studio Beer Bar for some awesome trips down memory lane.
There will be live music by three amazing bands: weirdopoppers The Homesick, Cumbia heroes La Banda Fantastica and psychyrockers Cocobolo.
There is food by The Beef Chief, who else, also revisiting some classics,
and you will see many familiar faces in the DJ booth!
Free entry, bring your friends :))
DREAMING OF A GOOD HARVEST
27-03-2024
ϟ ϟ ϟ REMIX ϟ ϟ ϟ
21-03-2024
In the meantime, the season turned to Spring and we at Oedipus are too hyped for release of the all-round staff favourite: Remix – our big tasty Keller Bier.
Our spring seasonal Remix is a classic beer in a colourful Oedipus jacket. Just like a musical remix, this beer offers a twist to a traditional style. In this case, the German Keller Bier. Remix is a modern, unfiltered lager with subtle floral and spicy hop aromas and a malty body. The beer is refermented with a young actively fermenting beer, and has been bottled a while ago, waiting patiently for its perfectly timed comeback. Which is now!
Leading up to the Remix release, our colour & design studio has been reimagining the beer label and added a new holographic dimension to the design, well fitted for this beer. It’s not fizzy, fuzzy or fussy. But it 𝘪𝘴 shiny & delish.
Last week we had a little family party for the release because Remix is best drunk fresh and in good company.
To celebrate we had a love parade with our team in their new Craft Space suits. Also marking the impending move of our brewery and taproom. We walked from our soon-to-be-headquarters back to the taproom in a colourful dance procession, annoying many of our neighbours. But all in good spirits.
Remix is our spring seasonal, available for only three months, so get it while you can.
WITH THE MAGIC OF THIS RITUAL DANCE OUR NEW BREW FLOOR HAS BEEN BLESSED
18-03-2024
THAT’S A WRAP FOR OUR PACKAGING LINE. BOTTLE NR. 3.080.580
15-03-2024
GETTING READY FOR THE MOVE
12-03-2024
WE PACKED 1200 SIXPACKS, HOW WAS YOUR DAY?
05-03-2024
THERE SHE GOES, NO WAY BACK NOW :)))))
29-02-2024
ENTERING THE CRAFT SPACE
14-02-2024
The big news of the year 02024 is that the Oedipus Spacecraft will soon set course to the Oedipus Craft Space. Yes yes, we are moving. If that makes you wonder whether you should start saving up for a spacesuit, and if you would even look good in orange: the answers are yes and you’ll look fabulous.
Our current digs at Gedempt Hamerkanaal 85 have served us well over the past 10 years (!), but with the expansion of the brewery, our beer portfolio and our human team, we have come to outgrow it. A large part of our operation has already been managed from the new location for a while, and we just started missing each other too much. It’s time to reunite.
Take off is planned for the end of April*, and landing shortly after. But like a trip to the International Space Station may take either six hours or three days, it’s all dependent on the weather
*Any and all information presented here is subject to change
Where we’ll be landing however, we do know. The Oedipus Craft Space ~ just up the street from the present brewery and taproom, where we have found the space we need to bring everyone and everything we love together.
It’s big lucky that we’re able to stay in the same area in Amsterdam Noord. This is where we grew up as a brewery, and have made some great friends with our neighbours such as Skatecafé, Fanny Freytag, Europizza & Bar Benelux, Club Paradise, Quba, Coba and the Green Viper guy.
We are currently in the midst of renovating the building, stuffing the space with all our hopes and dreams. Dreams like a big brewery that is closely connected to the taproom and terrace, a labyrinth of barrels for the wild side, a small brew kit we can use for taproom-exclusive experiments, colourful studios and workshops for our creatives, a recording studio and live music stage, and the world’s first bottling linedance. This and many more things will be crossed off our wish list. We truly cannot wait to show it all to you.
However, patience is key… Just bear with us through the noise for now, and when we have more to tell, you will be the first to know.