CANTILLION BREWERY TOUR Saturday March 5th

Cantillon Brewery is a small, family-owned brewery but since 1978, it has run primarily as the Brussel’s Gueze Museum. Having seen few changes since it opened in 1900, the brewery is working museum exhibit of late 19th-century brewery technology.

It is operated by the Van Roy-Cantillon family as a brewery for lambic, gueuze, faro, and kriek – all beers that are made with wild strains of yeast and undergo spontaneous fermentation. When it was founded, it was just one of many gueuze breweries in Brussels, but today it is the last.

Walking into Cantillon for a tour is like stepping back in time.

From 6h30 to 17h, the Master brewer, his family and friends invite you to the great brewering fair and propose you to experience the various steps in the traditional production of the Lambic and Gueuze.

ITINERARY: SATURDAY MARCH 5TH
In a 19th Century brewery with its original equipment

from 7.00 to 9.00 Brewing process
from 9 to 13.00 Filtration and hopping
from 12.00 to 15.00 Cooking
at 15.30 Pumping of wort into the cooling tun
from 7.00 to 12.00 Barrel cleaning "ancient method"

Guided tours every 2 hours as from 7.00

Admission fee: EUR 6 per person - this includes guided tour and one drink of your choice

Croissants and coffee are proposed until 8.30, free of charge

56 rue Gheude
1070 Brussels
5' from the Gare du Midi

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World famous Zythos Beer Festival this weekend

Zythos Beer Fest - The reborn cousin of the 24 hours of Beer fest, offers a wide range of Belgian beer often served by the brewer.
No need to change a winning combination....Just like the previous festivals there will be around sixty brewers and numerous beer marketing companies presenting their finest brews.

By purchasing €1 coins you can have your 15cl tasting glass (deposit €3) filled with liquid candy. Throughout the hall, resting places are set up and there's a food bazaar . It is prohibited to smoke within the complex.

In order to keep the festival going, the organizers sell beer merchandising at the entrance. Sint-Niklaas can be easily reached by train from Brussels, Leuven, Gent and Antwerpen. The location is only 150m from the station. And there's parking next to the building.
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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.