Pint Maarten: twelve Utrecht breweries brew one city beer
The third edition of Pint Maarten was brewed at Brouwerij Eleven in Kanaleneiland and has been on sale in more than twenty Utrecht cafés and bottle shops since the Sint Maarten weekend.
Pint Maarten, Utrecht's city beer, is back: twelve breweries from the city worked together on a single blond beer, brewed this year in the kettles of Brouwerij Eleven in Kanaleneiland. It has been available since the weekend of 7 November, the night of the Ronde van Sint Maarten, in more than twenty Utrecht cafés, tasting rooms and bottle shops, Bier! magazine and Biernet reported on 3 November.
The initiative comes from De Horecaburgemeester, the marketing agency run by Kiki Mossink, Nadia Kaleghi and Tom Terwan. Pint Maarten started in 2022 to mark Utrecht's 900th anniversary; that first batch, brewed by Brouwerij Oproer, sold out the same weekend, according to De CaféKrant. In 2024 vandeStreek brewed the second edition. Each time a different Utrecht brewery runs the kettle, and each time the beer tastes slightly different.
What goes into Pint Maarten 2026
Twelve breweries in one glass; it doesn't get more Utrecht than that.
Alongside Eleven, Oproer and vandeStreek, the line-up includes Oudaen, Brothers in Law, UTCA Brews, Seagull Brewing, Hommeles, Backyard Brewing, House of Pint, Brouwerij 74 and Covalent. The breweries donated ingredients and had a say in the recipe. The result is a fresh, easy-drinking blond with Belgian yeast, wheat from the Zuilen nature area, linden blossom and a mix of hops including Nelson Sauvin. Bitterness sits at 20 IBU. The sources disagree on strength: Bier! gives 5.2 per cent, Biernet 5.4.
This year's label is by illustrator Saskia Rasink, known for Eleven's house style. She drew the Stadhuisbrug, the Dom tower, the Vismarkt and the light artwork of Sint Maarten on horseback. The organisers sum it up as: 'Twelve breweries in one glass; it doesn't get more Utrecht than that.'
Where to drink Utrecht's city beer
Pint Maarten is on tap at the taprooms of Eleven, Oudaen, Oproer, Brothers in Law and vandeStreek, and at bars including Café Jan Primus, Taplokaal Gist, Café Springhaver, De Drie Dorstige Herten and Louis Hartlooper. Outside the city, Seagull pours it at De Grote Burgemeester in Zeist. For drinking at home, cans are sold at shops including Bottles and Booze, Buurtbier and Little Beershop. The current list of outlets is on the Pint Maarten website.
Breweries teaming up on one beer is a familiar move in craft beer; on a far bigger scale, the Great American Beer Festival 2026 shows how crowded that market has become. Utrecht deliberately goes small and local.
Small is meant literally. According to Biernet, 2,144 litres were brewed, spread across some twenty-seven addresses: just under eighty litres per venue on average. When it's gone, it's gone, and anyone who missed the 2022 edition knows how fast that can happen.
