In a previous issue, we talked about the history of the Silly family brewery, from its beginnings in 1850 until 1930. Here is the sequel. In 1937, the Meynsbrughen family bought the buildings of the old communal school and set up the first bottling plant. Adelin, taking advantage of these new production capacities, creates two beers one after the other: a Sylla (Bock type) and an Export. These two references are added to a range already comprising, besides table beers, a Season, a Grisette, a Scotch and a Belgian. All these beers are exclusively of high fermentation. At the very beginning of the Second World War, the brewery acquired a small malting plant. A fire caused by a truck tarpaulin drying in front of the kiln puts an end to this experience as early as 1944. In 1947, the brewery took over the farm. It still produced only high-fermentation beers. The year 1948 is marked by the arrival with Adelin of a reinforcement in the person of Jose Van der Haegen, his son-in-law, husband of Josette Meynsbrughen. Under his leadership, the company adapts to the brewing of low-fermentation beers, creating, shortly before 1950, a Triple Bock, a special household beer, an Export quite different from that manufactured before the war, then, in 1956 the Myn’s Pils. In 1964, Adelin created a new beer, the Super 64, a high fermentation amber beer grading 5.2% vol. alc. He died a few months later, having been at the head of his company for nearly sixty years. At the beginning of the seventies, José and Josette Van der Haegen, Jean-Paul and Didier, the first as brewers, came on the track, while the second was responsible for sales and public relations. In 1972, Jean-Paul developed the Silbrau Dort, a low-fermentation blond beer. Shortly after, the production of the Export is abandoned. In 1973, the company takes the name Brasserie de Silly. The year 1975 is marked by the acquisition of the Tennstedt Decroes Brewery in Enghien which allows it to add to its range the Double Enghien, today existing in three versions: brown, blonde and Christmas. To follow.
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