IndependentMicrobrewery
De Dolle Brouwers
Esen, West Flanders, Belgium · Est. 1980
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Tally's Take
Why this matters
Belgian brewing was disappearing in 1980 and three brothers bought a dying brewery because they liked it. They kept the old kit, which everyone said was mad, and it turned out the old kit was the point.
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The Beer Library
Beers
Oerbier
Year-RoundBelgian Strong Dark Ale
ABV9.0%
The first beer the brothers brewed after buying a closing brewery in 1980, on nineteenth-century equipment everyone told them to replace.
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