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Brasserie de Brunehaut

Brasserie de Brunehaut is the trade name for Brunehaut Brewery, located in Rongy-Brunehaut (Hainaut), 80 km south/southwest of Brussels, Belgium (Wallonia), near the French border.
Beers:  Abbaye De Saint Amand
Abbaye De Saint Martin Blonde
Abbaye De Saint Martin Brune
Abbaye De St Martin Cuvee De Noel
Abbaye De St Martin Triple
B.
Bio Ambree Brunehaut
Bio Blanche Brunehaut
Bio Blonde Brunehaut
Ginette
Le Kopstoot
Mont-St-Aubert - Blonde
Terroir - Blanche Bio
Tradition - Ambree
Village - Blonde
Address:  Europe» Belgium» RONGY-BRUNEHAUT
7623 17, Rue des Panneries
Province:  Hainaut
Phone:  32 69 34 64 11
Fax:  +32 69 34 64 12
E-mail:  info@brunehaut.com
Web Site:  www.brunehaut.com
The brewery"s history dates directly to 1096 in Tournai, and a time of severe medieval famine, locally remembered as part of the great plague. Beer was already known as a safe alternative to impure local water supplies and the local community desperately needed help to avoid starvation. To promote public health, and compensate for minimal humanitarian support from far-away Rome, Benedictine Bishop Radbod included brewing permissions in the charter to re-establish Abbaye de Saint-Martin.
Brewing continued at Abbaye de Saint-Martin, through multiple wars and rebellions without significant interruption until 1793 when, during the French revolution, most abbey structures, including the church sanctuary and brewery were destroyed. Only the mid-18th century Abbot palace, parts of the 14th century Gothic cloister and a Romanesque, 13th century crypt survived. Fortunately, many important abbey documents, including Saint-Martin"s secret brewing recipes, were successfully hidden from revolutionary plunder.
In 1890, during Belgium"s post-Industrial Revolution prosperity, these essential recipes permitted resumption of Abbaye de Saint-Martin brewing by Brasserie de Bruenhaut. More than forty individual Brunehaut beers were brewed during the next century and, in 1990, output capacity doubled, via new construction of a purpose-built fermentation house, two kilometers distance from the 1890 brewery site.


Source:   www.brunehaut.com

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