Piedboeuf Brewery (, ) is a brewery in Jupille-sur-Meuse, Belgium. It is owned by Anheuser–Busch InBev. The main brand is Jupiler, the best selling beer in Belgium.

History

In 1812, the company was founded in Jupille by Jacques-Pascal Piedboeuf (1782-1839). It was not a brewery, but a boiler works manufacturing not only brewing equipment, but also stationary engines, ship boilers, large factory boilers and locomotive boilers supplied in particular to locomotive builders Saint-Léonard and Carels.A.Dagant : 125 Ans de construction de locomotives à vapeur en Belgique
/ref> The Jacques Piedbœuf boiler works continued these activities until 1947. At the same time, Adrien Piedbœuf began producing motor vehicles in his workshops in 1900, founding the Impéria brand in 1904. In 1853, his son Jean-Théodore Piedbœuf, who succeeded him at the head of the boiler works, began brewing. The small brewery was set up in the cellars of the Charlemagne Tower; this first Piedbœuf brewery failed to survive. Today's Brasserie Piedbœuf owes its origins to a brewery founded in 1873 by Henri Lhoest-Collinet and inherited by his daughter, who in 1892 married Théodore Piedbœuf, nephew of Jean-Théodore Piedbœuf. Until the First World War, production remained modest, covering only the surrounding area. In 1905, 5 horse-drawn vehicles and a truck were used for deliveries. In 1915, Henri Piedbœuf took over the company. In 1921, with a production of 3,000 hectoliters, the brewery still ranked only 724th in Belgium. It was at this point that the company began bottom-fermenting. By 1930, the company was producing 50,000 hectoliters and ranking 21st. In 1965, on the eve of the launch of Jupiler (in September 1966), the company passed the million hectoliter mark and employed 1,800 people. By 1979, after several acquisitions, the group employed 3,800 people and produced 2.75 million hectoliters of beer, as well as other lemonades and fruit juices. The Piedbœuf brewery became part of the Interbrew group (formed from the 1987 merger of the Artois, Leuven and Piedbœuf breweries). On March 3, 2004, Interbrew merged with Brazilian brewer Companhia de Bebidas das Americas (AmBev) to form InBev, which merged with Anheuser-Busch in 2008.
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Variety

*« Jupiler » is a 5.2% abv,

pale lager Pale lager is a pale-to- golden lager beer with a well- attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness. In the mid-19th century, Gabriel Sedlmayr took British pale ale brewing and malt making techniques back to the Spaten Bre ...

. It is made from

malt Malt is any cereal grain that has been made to germinate by soaking in water and then stopped from germinating further by drying with hot air, a process known as "malting". Malted grain is used to make beer, whisky, malted milk, malt vinegar, ...

maize Maize (; ''Zea mays''), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native American ...

(corn), water,

hops Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant ''Humulus lupulus'', a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants. They are used primarily as a bittering, flavouring, and stability agent in beer, to whic ...

and

yeast Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom (biology), kingdom. The first yeast originated hundreds of millions of years ago, and at least 1,500 species are currently recognized. They are est ...

. The name "Jupiler" comes from its place of origin, Jupille. It was created in 1966. *« Jupiler N.A. » a 0.5% abv pale lager, created in 2004. *« Jupiler Blue » a 3.3% abv pale lager, created in 2006. *« Jupiler Force» a soda. *« Jupiler Tauro » an 8.3% abv strong pale lager, created in 2008. *« Piedbœuf Blonde » a 1.1% abv blond table beer. *« Piedbœuf Brune » a 1.5% abv brown table beer. *« Piedbœuf Triple » a 3.8% abv triple table beer. *« Piedbœuf Excellence » a 2% abv table beer. *« Piedbœuf Foncée» a 1.5% abv table beer. *« Delhaize Blond/ Blonde » a 1.5% abv table beer. *« Delhaize Bruin/ Brune » a 1.5% abv table beer. As part of the Anheuser–Busch InBev group, it also brews other beer, including

Stella Artois Stella Artois ( , ) is a pilsner beer, first brewed in 1926 by Brouwerij Artois in Leuven, Belgium. In its original form, the beer is 5.2 per cent Alcohol by volume, ABV, the country's standard for pilsners. The beer is sold in many EU countrie ...

, Leffe and

Hoegaarden Hoegaarden () is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in Flanders, one of the three Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium, regions of Belgium. The municipality comprises the villages of Hoegaar ...

References

External links

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