Brasserie Duyck
The Brasserie Duyck is a French family-owned brewery . It is located in Jenlain , a municipality in the Nord department , in the French part of Hainaut , about ten kilometers from the city of Valenciennes .
history
At the beginning of the 20th century, Léon Duyck brewed beer in Zegerscappel in French Flanders near Dunkirk . In 1922 his son Félix moved to Jenlain, where in the same year he brewed an amber-colored, barrel-aged, top-fermented beer called "vieille bière" (old beer) on his farm. The beer was brewed in winter.
After the Second World War it was sold as Bière de garde . In 1949, Félix Duyck and his son Robert decided to fill their beer in reused champagne bottles that were closed with crown corks and to sell them. This set the Brasserie Duyck apart from the competition. In 1968, the amber-colored beer from the Duyck brewery was finally marketed under the Jenlain brand , named after the village in which it is brewed.
The 1970s was a difficult time for the French brewing industry. As everywhere in Europe, the traditional types of beer have been replaced by the bottom-fermented lager, which is regarded as modern. But at the same time, students from Lille University discovered top-fermented Jenlain from Hainaut and made it a cult beer. In the years that followed, Jenlain beer became known throughout France. In 1990 Robert's son Raymond Duyck took over the management of the brewery. In addition to the classic Jenlain Ambrée, several other varieties were added in the following years, such as the Jenlain Blonde (light top-fermented beer, since 2005), the Jenlain Or or the Jenlain Ténébreuse.
Raymond Duyck has been running the company together with his son Matthieu Duyck since 2013. The beer output was 110,000 hectoliters in 2013.
literature
- Adrian Tierney-Jones (Ed.): Les 1001 bières qu'il faut avoir goûtées dans sa vie. Flammarion, Paris 2012.
- Tim Hampson (Ed.): Bières du Monde. Prisma Média, 2015.