Brewery News

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

Hogs Back Brewery is recording a big increase in sales and is busily expanding the site to cope with demand. As well as its core range of ales, the brewery has added a cloudy cider and a properly matured lager

Added: Sunday, August 11th 2013

Professor Freddy Delvaux, revered as an expert in brewing, has restored the old De Kroon brewery and, with his sons, turned it into a vibrant museum and visitor centre. And alongside they run a major laboratory that stores and analyses yeast cultures, working with many leading Belgian breweries. Image shows Peter (left), Freddy and Filp Delvaux

Added: Sunday, July 28th 2013

Hoegaarden in Belgium was a town made famous by Pierre Celis and his spiced wheat beer. His brewery is now part of global giant AB InBev but Mieke De Backer and Jan De Wachter (pictured) maintain Celis's tradition of artisan brewing with their small Nieuwhuys plant where they make blond and dark beer...and a drop of geneva

Added: Wednesday, July 10th 2013

In Norwich, the National Collection of Yeast Cultures is helping to restore the famous London brewing name of Truman's by supplying the yeast cultures that once produced Mild, Porter and Pale Ale in Brick Lane, Whitechapel. Pictured are Benedikt Ott, Truman's brewer, with Vincent Johnson, who has installed the new brewing kit at Hackney Wick

Added: Monday, July 8th 2013