Yvan De Baets and Bernard Leboucq were among those who initiated the revival of craft beer in the Belgian capital with Brasserie de la Senne. They strive to produce naturally brewed beers using quality ingredients. Their beers - Taras Boulba, Zinnebir and Zenne Pils - all have a beautiful, deep and floral bitterness, the kind that whets the appetite and quenches your thirst! They can all be sampled in the bar on site.

Cantillon brewery has a family history, that of the Van Roy-Cantillon family. This historic brewery, founded in 1900 in Anderlecht, still brews in the traditional way. This is where the famous local bacteria, Brettanomyces bruxellensis, spontaneously ferments the wort, before it is put into barrels and becomes lambic, then gueuze. The gueuzes and lambics from Cantillon brewery are true legends that are exported around the world. But luckily you don't need to go far, as you can taste on site. 

Saint-Gilles. More than just a brewery, Beerstorming is, above all, an original concept that invites groups of beer lovers to "brainstorm" and create their own beers. Apprentices are then involved in every stage of the brewing process. There is also a system for voting for other brews. The ones with the most votes are marketed for 3 months.

In 2013, Henry, François and Nacim were roommates and passionate about beer. They lived together on rue de l'Ermitage in Ixelles, hence the brewery's name. It was in their kitchen that they tested their first brews. After several years of trial and error, the beers with the sweet names of Lantern, Emperor's Theorem, Soleil and Noire du Midi were born and are a real success. Taste them in their Anderlecht taproom or in their famous bar on rue de Moscou in Saint-Gilles.

It took two years to go from the idea of creating a cooperative of micro brewers to the inauguration of CoHop, at Arsenal in Etterbeek in 2022. The concept? Simple! A pooling of production tools. Four brewers take turns sharing the tanks: Janine, Witloof, DrinkThatBeer & 1B2T (1 beer = sandwich). On site, a brewpub equipped with 24 pumps allows you to enjoy the diversity of these productions; in moderation, of course.

You'll find La Jungle micro-brewery in the Studio CityGate in Anderlecht. Christophe, Félix and Martin, the co-founders, strive to reinterpret classic Belgian and German beers, using European ingredients. In July 2020, "La Saison du Kanaal" was born: a blonde beer, with a slight bitterness and peppery flavour.

Joël Galy opened the Mule brewery in 2021, 60 years after the Roelants brewery - the last one to operate in Schaerbeek - had closed. This is a real revival of the Brussels commune's brewing past. With organic ingredients, the brewer produces typical German beers: Lager, Hefeweizen, Helles, Kölsch and Altbier. Some have more flavour, others are fruitier or have a low alcohol content. For a drink, go to Bar de la Mule, in the Écuries Van de Tram, in Schaerbeek's historical centre. The bar also organises activities, games and concerts and you can even buy your bottles of beer to go.