Category: Brussels and Wallonia

News about breweries in Brussels and Wallonia

  • Trappistes Rochefort, Part 2: Abbey, Church, Library

    Trappistes Rochefort, Part 2: Abbey, Church, Library

    Well, it’s been awhile since I posted Part I of this Rochefort series. Here is part 2, finally: A look behind the scenes in the Abbey, Church, and library at the Trappist ‘l Abbaye Notre Dame de St-Remy, and its Brasserie Rochefort. This April 2013 tour was given by Frère Pierre, the monk in charge…

  • 1975 Cantillon Kriek

    1975 Cantillon Kriek

    On a nice spring day in Belgium, Sunday, April 20th, I had the chance to taste a very special vintage beer. It’s not too often that you get to drink a nearly 40-year old brew, and I was excited at the news that friends Andre Van Gansen, Danny Van Tricht, and I would be opening…

  • Cantillon’s Bomb Shelter Beer Cellar

    Cantillon’s Bomb Shelter Beer Cellar

    The much-beloved Brasserie Cantillon has a new long-term storage project where tens of thousands of bottles of lambic, Oude Gueuze, and other beers will be stored for up to thirty years. I had the great pleasure of visiting the “Bomb Shelter Beer Cellar” with Cantillon brewmaster Jean Van Roy on Thursday, April 24. Jean told me,…

  • Brasserie Trappistes Rochefort: the brewhouse

    Brasserie Trappistes Rochefort: the brewhouse

    Last April, I paid a visit-my fourth since 2003-to l’ Abbaye Notre Dame de St-Remy, and its storied Brasserie Rochefort. The stunning brewhouse, said by many to one of the most beautiful in the world, continues to impress on every visit. The copper kettles and stained-glass windows create quite and effect, especially on sunny days.…

  • Aerial photos from Achouffe, with a red-hatted grain silo

    Aerial photos from Achouffe, with a red-hatted grain silo

    Chris Bauweraerts, who co-founded Brasserie D’ Achouffe in 1982, is a big fan of model, remote-controlled airplanes. He’s also loves photography, and has paired the two to capture some pretty impressive aerial images of Houffalize, the small city where Achouffe is located. One of them is a grain silo covered with what looks like one…

  • Château d’Ychouffe, Achouffe’s new dessert beer…and more from Duvel

    Château d’Ychouffe, Achouffe’s new dessert beer…and more from Duvel

    Brasserie D’ Achouffe has a new beer, and it’s a unique, tasty one. The brewery is calling it “The missing link between beer and wine,” and it does have many wine- like qualities, due to the juice, skins, and seeds (also known as “must”) of dessert wine grapes. These grapes come from the Loupiac area…

  • Brasserie Cantillon 50 N 4 E

    Brasserie Cantillon 50 N 4 E

    Another great from Brussels’ own, the great Brasserie Cantillon. This one uses lambic aged for 2 years in Cognac barrels. It is a collaboration between Cantillon and Cognac maker Grosperrin. It’s a superb beer, with a noticeable but not overdone character added by the cognac, and 7% abv. I picked this bottle up at Cantillon…

  • Brasserie Cantillon Fou’ Fonne

    Brasserie Cantillon Fou’ Fonne

    One of the many favorites of the famed Brasserie Cantillon is Fou’ Fonne, which is a beer using French apricots steeped in 2 year old lambic. Foufonne is the nickname of a French apricot grower, François Daronnat, who sang the praises of his apricots during a visit by Jean Van Roy to the Rhône region…

  • The vintage Belgian beer photos post

    The vintage Belgian beer photos post

    Wanna see some vintage/aged beer? Here you go! The top photo is 1982 and 1984 De Dolle Stille Nacht. Photo taken at Bierhuis Kulminator, 2002. If you like this article, please like our Facebook page here and our Twitter page here

  • Two days at Brasserie Cantillon, part 1

    Two days at Brasserie Cantillon, part 1

    I try to visit the famed Brasserie Cantillon in Brussels at least once a year, which lately means at least every other trip to Belgium. My last two visits were in December 2012, and November 2013. Even though I have visited the brewery over a dozen times, the beer continues to amaze, and visits never…