Cantillon Brewery

Cantillon Brewery (Brasserie-Brouwerij Cantillon) is a small Belgian traditional family brewery based in Brussels and founded in 1900. Although it has been managed by the Van Roy family after the last Cantillon left it to his son-in-law Jean-Pierre Van Roy, the name Cantillon has been kept. Cantillon Brewery brews lambic beers like kriek and gueuze in the traditional style, unchanged since it was founded. It is the last lambic brewery in Brussels... More

Cantillon Brewery (Brasserie-Brouwerij Cantillon) is a small Belgian traditional family brewery based in Brussels and founded in 1900. Although it has been managed by the Van Roy family after the last Cantillon left it to his son-in-law Jean-Pierre Van Roy, the name Cantillon has been kept. Cantillon Brewery brews lambic beers like kriek and gueuze in the traditional style, unchanged since it was founded. It is the last lambic brewery in Brussels that still uses the process of spontaneous fermentation. More recently it started making Iris, a spontaneously fermented beer that does not contain wheat and is made with 50% fresh hops, and thus is technically not a lambic. Beers like Fou'Foune are seasonally dependent on the apricot harvest. The brewery is located in the municipality of Anderlecht. The brewery also houses the Gueuze Museum in Brussels and is open to the public--to see the maturing beer and to watch the brewing and bottling processes.

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