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Brasserie de Cazeau

The Brasserie de Cazeau has been a traditional farm brewery since 1753. Beer-making was halted in 1969 but restarted in 2004.
Beers:  Hop Harvest Cazeau
Saison Cazeau
Tournay
Tournay De Noel
Tournay Noire
Address:  Europe» Belgium» TEMPLEUVE
7520 67, Rue de Cazeau
Province:  Hainaut
Phone:  +32 69 35 25 53
Fax:  +32 69 35 25 53
E-mail:  info@brasseriedecazeau.be
Web Site:  www.brasseriedecazeau.be
After the 1918 the Cazeau brewery joined forces with two other local breweries in order to start up business again at the Duchatelet brewery in Nechin. It was only in 1926 that new facilities became operational at Cazeau. During this period, Maurice, took over the operational management of the Brewery. Production was based around various types of beer: Scotch, conventional beer (Priming), strong beer (Triple Agache) and table beer (Super Familia). Maurice later had to brave the agonies of a second world war. Having led the brewery all the way through these troubled years, in 1952 he eventually decided to take a well-earned rest, handing over the reins to his second son, Jean Agache, who was helped by his younger brother, Maurice.
The house speciality was Cazbier, an amber beer similar to Pale Ale. But the post-war period was a tough time for small traditional breweries using high fermentation methods. People"s tastes were changing, moving more towards the low fermentation Pils coming out of the industrial breweries. In 1969, the Brasserie de Cazeau was the last working brewery in the Grand Tournai area and, like all the others, it decided to end production and reinvent itself as a beer retail business.
In 2004, 35 years after the last brew, Jean"s second son Laurent Agache, a civil construction engineer, got together with his cousin and friend Quentin Mariage, a chemical engineer, to relaunch the brewery.

Since then, production has increased and is currently up to just over 450 HL a year. The aim of the Brasserie de Cazeau is to make high quality, traditional beers, while keeping up the style of craftsmanship associated with the family tradition.

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