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Van Steenberge
The history of the brewery goes back to 1784. Many hundreds of home breweries in Flanders made their own beer for their own consumption or as a side activity of farming, because it was safer to drink beer than water. In Ertvelde, Jean Baptise De Bruin started the brewery DE PEER. He turned the beer brewery into its main activity and sold the beer.
De Bruin married Angelina Petronella Schelfaut who continued the brewery after his death. When she died, she left the brewery to her cousin, Jozef Schelfaut, who had assisted her for many years in the brewery and knew the art of brewing. His daughter Margriet married Paul Van Steenberge, a professor of microbiology at the Ghent brewing school. After the First World War, he took charge of the brewery. In 1919 he changed the name of the brewery to BREWERY BIOS, after the beer with the same name that went into production at the time. Unfortunately, his heart was with politics, not with beer. He was the mayor of Ervelde and a senator. Even though he wasn’t often present in the brewery, he was a real businessman. Thanks to his background as a professor in microbiology at the technical college of Delft, where he worked with a student of Louis Pasteur, he knew perfectly well what he was doing. He successfully launched a number of beers such as Bios Flemish Bourgogne (old brown) and Leutebock (lager). He invested in a new brewing hall, new tanks and switched from wooden barrels to glass bottles. His business instinct was stronger than his passion for brewing and he decided to become part of a cooperation when many breweries had a hard time because of the war. As a result, he could cut costs and benefit from the knowledge of the other brewers. Something unthinkable nowadays…
But that was without taking into account his wife Margriet, who was mainly raising her son Jozef Van Steenberge who was born in 1914. She had inherited the brewery from her father. To her, becoming part of a cooperation equalled a sell: “I was born a brewer, and I will die a brewer’, she stated. Fortunately, she didn’t change her mind and fortunately, her son had inherited her passion for the trade.
After the death of his father in 1962, Jozef Van Steenberge took over the management of the brewery. He refocused on the production of high-quality beers of high fermentation. The malt house and the hop extraction fields, planted by Jozef Schelfaut, disappeared. Instead, Van Steenberge led a purchasing policy of raw materials, based on very strict specifications. But it wasn’t at the age of 64, after a political career as mayor and senator – just like his father – that Van Steenberge focused on the brewery full-time. That’s when the brewery started the brewing of special beers of high fermentation and secondary fermentation. Around the same period, in 1978 to be precise, the brewery acquires the recipe of the beer that the Augustin friars brewed in their monastery in Ghent. It is fine-tuned in Ertvelde and in 1982 it is launched on the market. It is an instant success and remains the top beer up until today. The range is completed with other beers of high fermentation such as Piraat and Gulden Draak. He hits bull’s eye: at the beginning of the eighties, the market for special beers with a high alcohol percentage was rather limited. But ever since the year 2000 the beer market knows a very clear trend: the demand for lager beers decreases in favour of special beers with a rich and complex taste. Jozef Van Steenberge somehow foresaw this trend. Thanks to the focus on this type of beers, the brewery could survive and grow. It was ready for the generations to come. In 1990, Paul Van Steenberge, Jozef’s son, takes over the company. He builds a new, fully automated brewing hall, a computerised barrel filling installation, a water purification installation, a new bottling installation and a steam plant with natural gas. The expected saturation of the national market was an important stimulant to prospect abroad.
In 1998, Jef Versele, Paul Van Steenberge’s cousin and the 7th generation of the brewing family, reinforced the team. He expanded the export of the attractive offer of high-fermentation beers up to 60%. The main export countries are the US, the Netherlands and Italy.
In order to fulfil the ambitious plans for the future, the Augustijn range is extended with Augustijn Dark in 2009. The launch of this new beer was the perfect occasion to do a fresh and contemporary restyling of the blonde and Grand Cru variety. This launch doesn’t mean that the brewery stops developing new beers or new presentations or that it stops optimizing the management processes, focusing as ever on constant quality.
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- Style: Belgian Style, Other Belgian-Style Ale
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Our range of 3 liter bottles
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Construction started on new barrel line
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NEW FOURCHETTE GRAND CRU
This Fourchette Grand Cru builds on the classic Fourchette Beer, but has been given a unique twist. For this special edition, the beer was aged for a whopping more than 20 months in Sauvignon Blanc barrels. This prolonged aging in oak barrels creates an extraordinary flavor profile. When tasting this beer, you will discover subtle ... Read More
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FOURCHETTE – 3 DAYS OF FINE DINING
This year Brewery Van Steenberge is back proud partner of the culinary event Fourchette, who are back with an anniversary edition. On May 27,28 and 29, several tables will be set to the finest detail. Each day you can choose from two menus created by different top chefs. Do you choose Saturday night or rather ... Read More
Gulden Draak Beer House Lisbon
The Gulden Draak Beer House in Lisbon opened its doors at the beginning of March. A stone’s throw from Picoas metro station in Lisbon you will find the new beer house Gulden Draak, with no fewer than 50 taps (which also offer the entire range of beers from Brouwerij Van Steenberge) accompanied by a simple ... Read More
GULDEN DRAAK CUVÉE PRESTIGE MADEIRA
For this new version of cuvée prestige, we let the Gulden Draak Classic mature for another 30 weeks in specially selected Madeira barrels after aging. These barrels, from Portugal, were only used three times. After maturing, the beer undergoes its classic secondary fermentation with our own unique wine yeast that will ensure a perfect balance. ... Read More
LONDON BEER COMPETITION 2022
Brewery Van Steenberge’s specialty beers are clearly not only liked by beer lovers worldwide, the jury of the London Beer Competition 2022 also appreciated our beers. Our brewery won no less than 6 medals Our Golden Dragon beers received plenty of awards. For example, the Gulden Draak Classic won the gold medal in the “Belgian ... Read More
WORLD BEER AWARDS 2021
After the stunning result of 12 medals at the USA Beer Ratings, Brewery Van Steenberge is once again richly awarded at the World Beer Awards. The diverse range of specialty beers impressed the judges of this prestigious international beer competition and brought no fewer than eight awards to the brewery: 2 x bronze, 3 x ... Read More
New York International Beer Competition 2021
Fantastic news! Brewery Van Steenberge participated in this year’s New York International Beer Competition (NYIBC) and won great prizes. In this 10th edition of the NYIBC, where no less than 800 beers from 14 different countries were present, Brewery Van Steenberge won no less than 3 medals. Our Gulden Draak Classic and 9000 Quadruple both ... Read More
Gulden Draak Smoked
Brewery Van Steenberge is expanding the Gulden Draak family with the Gulden Draak Smoked. The heavy, dark smoked beer with secondary fermentation in the bottle is the perfect addition to the already existing range. You can find this newest beer at your favorite, Belgian beer retailer starting Nov. 16. Gulden Draak beers have been traditionally ... Read More
Opening of Gulden Draak Bierhuis Porto
On 9 February of this year, the second official Gulden Draak Bierhuis was opened in Porto by the 6th-generation brewer Jef Versele. Gulden Draak Bierhuis is a total experiential concept for Gulden Draak enthusiasts and, by extension, for the devotees of all the Van Steenberge speciality beers. Inside this unique establishment, you are completely immersed ... Read More
Margriet looks to the future with confidence!
From now on, Margriet will grace the roof-top terrace of Bar BAPTIST. Elegantly perched on its edge, with her sights on the future and a glass of Augustijn in her hand, Margriet wishes you a warm welcome on top of the beating heart of the brewery. The unveiling of this likeness of Margriet Schelfaut is ... Read More
International Beer Challenge London
The Van Steenberge Brewery from Ertvelde continues to score big wins at international beer competitions. As a matter of fact, Gulden Draak brought home a gold medal and Piraat a bronze from the International Beer Challenge in London. The International Beer Challenge is one of the most renowned beer competitions in the world, and each year ... Read More
Silver for Gulden Draak
Not only was the brewery awarded a prize at the New York International Beer Competition, so was one of its favourite beers. In the Belgian Style Dark Strong Ale category, Gulden Draak captured the silver medal. ‘This new prize makes clear that the medals that Gulden Draak has received in the past were not just ... Read More
Images of construction work at brewery
Soon we will start up our new cooling installation, and the bottling plant is getting a brand-new rinser. This new rinser will ensure substantially lower water consumption. The work on the new cooling block is right on schedule: the building carcass is in place and the floors have been laid. At the moment, the finishing ... Read More