Bocq.be Website Review

MORE THAN A CENTURY AND HALF OF TRADITION, QUALITY AND KNOW-HOW. It all started in 1858 when Martin Belot, fa*mer in Purnode, brewed for the first time a beer in the outbuildings of his fa*m. At the very beginning, the beer was only produced in winter, the staff was not occupied with field work outside the high season. Moreover, in Purnode, the discovery of an exceptional water table in both quality and quantity was an as*et The Bras*erie offered consumers a very wide range of products, ranging from table beers to strong beers through a wide range densities, colors, bitterness and tastes. The brewer himself provided the distribution of his products in a relatively small radius around the brewery. It is early twentieth century that La Gauloise, currently the oldest brand still produced at the Bras*erie, high fermentation brown beer, is brewed for the first time. Since La Bras*erie was incorporated as a public limited company in 1949. Independent of any Belgian or foreign beer group, it still retains its family character. In 1960, both agricultural activity and door-to-door deliveries were definitively abandoned. This is the beginning of distribution via supermarkets, drink markets and beer traders. With the takeover of the Bras*erie Centrale de Marbaix-La-Tour in 1967, the Bras*erie du Bocq adds two new beers to its product range: the REGAL SEASON which is currently the GAULOISE AMBREE, and whose idea gave birth in 2013 at the 1858 SEASON and the REGAL CHRISTMAS, renamed since GAULOISE CHRISTMAS. It was at this time that the Belot family decided to direct the manufacture of beer only towards the production of special beers of high fermentation with fermentation in bottles. In 1983, the Bras*erie du Bocq abandons the operation of the Bras*erie Centrale de Marbaix-La-Tour to bring back all the beer production