Brewery News

Bosteels Brewery, dating from 1791, is older than its host country. It's still family owned and run by the sixth and seventh generations, Ivo and Antoine. They are renowned for their multi-award-winning Tripel Karmeliet, the idiosyncratic Pauwel Kwak served from a glass in a wooden shoe, and Deus, which reaches maturity in Champagne cellars in France

Added: Monday, December 30th 2013

Trappist monks at Westmalle Abbey near Antwerp in Flanders created a new Belgian style with their strong Tripel pale beer. But they also brew a flavoursome dark beer, Dubbel, in a brewhouse of startling Art Deco design surrounded by Gothic church buildings

Added: Thursday, December 19th 2013

Sean Franklin coined the phrase "hops are the grapes of brewing" and set out to create beers with powerful citrus character. Now his pioneering work in Yorkshire is being continued by the Fozard brothers with a helping hand from father Ian

Added: Tuesday, December 17th 2013

Inside the massive Greene King brewery in Bury St Edmunds a new small plant has been installed to produce small-run beers aimed at the fast-growing craft sector. The new range includes pale ale, IPA and porter and the legendary Strong Suffolk Ale

Added: Saturday, December 7th 2013

The Val-Dieu and Bellevaux breweries in the eastern region of Belgium, near Liege, maintain the ancient traditions of brewing in abbeys -- Val-Dieu beers are pictured with the local Herve cheese -- and on farms. Val-Dieu has lost its monks and brewing is now conducted by a woman "brewster". Near Malmedy, Carla and Wil Schuwer from the Netherlands have opened a rustic brewery in the rolling Ardennes

Added: Friday, November 8th 2013