Swinkels Family Brewers

A giant of European stout that lost its independence in 2019. The beer kept coming; the word craft quietly stopped applying.

The reference point for Flanders red-brown ale, brewing in Roeselare since 1821 and ageing beer in nearly three hundred oak foeders, some of them well over a century old and tended by a dedicated…

One of the rare Dutch Trappist breweries, though commercial operations are heavily partnered with the Swinkels conglomerate.

Comic-book branding and ultra-fresh IPA, sold to Swinkels in 2021. Freshness is a logistics problem, and logistics is what large groups are actually good at.