Public Brewing Session at Cantillon

From 6:30am to 5 pm, on Saturday March 8th, Master brewer Jean-Pierre Van Roy, alias Mr. Cantillon, his family and friends, invite you to a brewing demonstration to experience the various steps in the traditional production of the Lambic and Gueuze beers.

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.

It 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 recently it started making Iris, a spontaneously fermented beer that, unusually, does not contain wheat and is made with fresh hops, and as a result is thus technically not a lambic.

It is also the Gueuze Museum in Brussels, and is open to the public to tour and see the maturing beer, and watch the brewing and bottling processes.
Taste-wise, Cantillon's beers are quite tart and dry compared to for instance the industrial, artificially sweetened geuze and kriek of Mort Subite.
The brewery is located in Anderlecht, at 56 rue Gheude

Cantillon website

6.30 to 9.00: brewing process

9 to 13.00: filtration and hopping

12.00 to 15.00: cooking

15.30: pumping of wort into the cooling tun

6.30 to 12.00: barrel cleaning "ancient method"

Guided tours every 2 hours as from 7am Croissants and coffee are available until 8.30, free of charge.