Oud Beersel

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Oud Beersel
Oud Beersel
Oud Beersel logo
Location Beersel, Belgium
Year opened 1882
Active Beers
Bersalis tripel
Old Geuze lambic
Old Kriek kriek

Oud Beersel is a Belgian lambic brewery.

[edit] History

Oud Beersel is an artisanal Lambic brewery, based in Beersel and founded in 1882 by Henri Vandervelden. His son Louis then his grand-son Henri take over. The brewery remained in the same family until 2002. In 1991, it was taken over by Henri's nephew Danny Draps[1]. In 2002, the brewing activities were stopped, due to financial problems. In 2005, driven by an interest in reviving the artisanal Oud Beersel kriek and geuze, two young men (Gert Christiaens and Roland De Bus) restarted the brewery. In order to finance the relaunch, the brewery is selling a beer called Bersalis, which is not a lambic-based beer and is actually made by another brewery (the Huyghe Brewery in Melle).

[edit] The beers

  • Bersalis (9.5% ABV) amber colored (made at Huyghe Brewery in Melle);
  • Old Geuze
  • Old Kriek

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