Boon (brewery)
Boon is a Belgian brewery in Lembeek, a sub-municipality of the city of Halle in Flemish Brabant .
history
The origins of today's brewery date back to 1680, when JB Claes bought a farm in Lembeek and set up a brewery and distillery there. In 1860, Louis Paul acquired the Procutionary Building from the Claes family and began producing lambic and faro beers . At that time the brewery was called "Brasserie de Saint Roch". A new malt house was added in 1890. In 1875, the first brewing attempts to produce Geuze- Lambic began. Since Louis Paul had no heir, he sold his brewery to Pierre Troch in 1898. In 1927 his son René Troch was forced to sell the company due to a crisis; Petrus-Joseph De Vits became the new owner. In the line of succession, the brewery passed to his son Rene. In 1978 Frank Boon bought the company and renamed it after his family name. In 1989, Boon relocated the brewery to the center of Lembeek for reasons of capacity and space; beer production was resumed there in 1989. Annual production today is around 10,000 hectoliters of beer.
Products
- Oude Geuze Boon (6.5%)
- Geuze Mariage Parfait (8%)
- Faro Perte Totale (4%)
- Kriek Boon (5%)
- Oude Kriek Boon (6.5%)
- Framboise Boon (5.5%)
- Duivels beer (8%)
photos
Historic tractor with Geuze Boon wooden barrel
Oude Geuze Boon in the original glass
Faro Boon
Duivels beer in the original glass
