Boon Brewery (Brouwerij Boon) is a
Belgian brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of bee ...
in
Lembeek, near
Brussels
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, that mainly produces
geuze and
kriek
Kriek lambic is a style of Belgian beer, made by fermenting lambic with sour Morello cherries. Traditionally " Schaarbeekse krieken" (a rare Belgian Morello variety) from the area around Brussels are used. As the Schaarbeek type cherries have b ...
beer of a fairly traditional
lambic variety, but using modern brewing techniques and equipment. Other products of the brewery including Faro beer and Duivelsbier, the traditional beer of
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.
The brewery was founded in 1978. Frank Boon purchased the De Vits brewery, café and geuzestekerij when Rene De Vits and his sister Jeanne decided to retire. The brewery moved from Hondzocht to Lembecq itself and the first beer was produced there in the fall of 1990 in partnership with Palm Belgian Craft Brewers, which took a 50% stake. The production increases steadily: 450 hl in 1990, 5 000 hl in 2000, 11 300 hl in 2009, 14 000 hl in 20111. The head of the brewery is Frank Boon and the Boon family own 50%. The other 50% was sold to
Palm Breweries
Palm Breweries is a brewery company. It owns several different Belgian breweries. Total production was 1,700,000 hl of beer in 2004. The brewery was a member of the Belgian Family Brewers society until 2016.
History
As early as 1597, records can ...
, but in 2014 this stake was transferred to Palm's parent company Diepensteyn NV and Boon was not involved in Palm's sale to
Bavaria
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in 2016. The distribution deal between Palm and Boon came to an end in 2016.
See also
*
3 Fonteinen
References
External links
*
New Frank Boon Brewing Hall Officially Opened
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Breweries of Flanders
Companies based in Flemish Brabant