How Sylvain Lecomte enlisted Edward Hopper and an unconventional design agency to create Dekkera bar and bottleshop in Vorst.
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Five alternatives in central Brussels for Europe’s leaders to hit up.
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One year into the story of Brasserie En Stoemelings at Tour & Taxis.
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Climate change is coming for lambic, and it will be hard for Cantillon to stop it.
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Brussels Beer Project are bringing their beers back to Brussels, building a new brewery in Anderlecht.
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In early May 2018 a group of artists and activists opened something Brussels hadn’t seen for 15 years: a bar by and for the city’s lesbian community
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Almost thirty years after the first one opened, how are the city’s Irish bars doing?
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How one of the world’s largest drinks brands ended up working with one of the smallest breweries in Belgium.
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For a long time now, I’ve had an old bottle of Cantillon Kriek in my cellar. Not ancient, but the label says it was bottled in May 2010, and I must have bought it in June or July of the same year. That means that I have had it longer than my two children, most of the clothes I currently own, and the house I live in. About time to see what it tastes like, then.
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Brussels in one more brewery richer, as of this weekend. On Saturday October 6, to be precise, Nanobrasserie de L'Ermitage open their doors to the public for the first time.
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In all the years I’ve lived in Brussels, and as long as Cantillon have been organising their annual Zwanze celebration, I’ve never been organised enough to buy tickets for the main event at Moeder Lambic Fontainas before they have sold out. 2017 was no different. That is how we found ourselves schlepping up the hills of St. Gilles on Saturday evening to the original Moeder Lambic.
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It’s early on a warm mid-July evening, and Denys Van Elewyck of Brasserie En Stoemelings is sitting behind the counter of the brewery, boxes piled up behind us and brewing equipment almost ready to be packed up. En Stoemelings, founded by Denis with his childhood friend and fellow Brusselaar Samuel Languy, is about to retrace the timeworn exodus of Brussels breweries from the centre to the periphery. Their brewery, which opened in 2015 on the Spiegelstraat in Brussels’ folksy Marollen district, is moving out and moving up. And, about time says Denys.
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Change comes slowly to Brussels. But it is coming to the corner of Brussels where the unfashionable communes of Koekelberg, Jette, and Ganshoren meet at Parc Elisabeth in a jigsaw puzzle of municipal borders. Hotel Restaurant Taverne Le Frederiksborg and Bar Eliza represent old and new Brussels, and show in their contrasting fortunes how accelerating demographic changes are reshaping the neighbourhood. They also serve beer.
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