Brewery Het Anker is one of the oldest breweries of Belgium. Located in the former hospital of Mechelen where the nuns brewed beer since 1471, Het Anker is now owned by the fifth generation of the family who bought it in 1872.

Brewery Huyghe is a brewery with a century old history, as the first brewing activities in Melle date back to 1654. In 1906 Léon Huyghe started the brewery. Since then the brewery carries the name Huyghe and the current CEO – Alain De Laet – is the fourth generation in the family brewery.

The origin of the Lefebvre brewery goes back to 1876 with Jules Lefebvre. He supplied beverages to the pubs around the big stone extraction of Quenast. In 1921, Auguste Lefebvre, Jules‘ son, moves the brewery to a neighboring hill in order to avoid the annual floods of the Senne. In the following years, Gaston Lefebvre, the third generation, modernized the brewery by starting the bottling of beer.

In 1624, the city of Watou near Poperinge was granted the privilege of becoming an earldom for the Earls van Yedegem. This family owned the castle of Watou, to which they constructed a brewery. During the French Revolution the brewery was rebuilt by a local farmer, under the typical Belgian slogan “Revolt all you want, but we still need beer here”. The business was led by the Van Eecke family for a hundred years, until the Leroy family inherited the brewery in 1962.

Since 1822, six generations of the Lindemans family have crafted authentic lambics of exquisite taste and complexity in the Pajottenland region, southwest of Brussels. Lambics are among the world’s rarest and most mysterious beers: they are the only beers fermented via wild, airborne yeast. The unusual and unique flavors that come from spontaneous fermentation are unmatched in the world of beer.

It all started in 1892, when Remi Vander Ghinste bought a house with accompanying buildings from a brewer for his 23-year-old son, Omer. That same year, the first barrels of Ouden Tripel (now VanderGhinste Oud Bruin) rolled out across the cobblestones of Bellegem. Omer delivered his beers by horse and cart in the region of Kortrijk. As brands didn’t exist at that time, he gave the beers his own name: the “bieren Omer Vander Ghinste”.

For more than 460 years now, Oudenaarde has hosted the brewing family Roman, which has perpetuated the brewing tradition from father to son. Officially, the story of the brewery began back in 1545, which makes Roman the oldest family brewery of Belgium.

Brasserie de Silly, situated 30 miles south from Brussels, was founded in 1850 and is active without interruption since 6 generations of brewers in the village of Silly. Initially founded as a farm-brewery, beer was brewed for the seasonal workers doing the harvest during the summer. Today, Brasserie de Silly is specialized in a great variety of typical Belgian craft beers. Since more than 165 years, the “Silly” beers are brewed following the same brewing techniques paying a lot of attention to quality, control and innovation.