Posts tagged Koekelberg
The Session #129 - A Plea for a Brussels Pils
The Session #129 - A Plea for a Brussels Pils

I settle into my seat with a draught glass of Redor Pils from Brasserie Dupont, contemplating my lot, and the lot of pils in Brussels. This is a beer style (or at least a family of beers made using bottom-fermenting yeasts at low temperatures) that defined brewing in this city for half a century, but has since vanished along with the breweries that made it so dominant. As brewing undergoes a revival in the city, it is time for the new generation of Brussels breweries to do justice to the city’s beer history.

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History and HeritageEoghan Walshpils, vandenheuvel, wiel's, Wielemans-Ceuppens, Vorst, Molenbeek, Cantillon, Koekelberg, Grande Brasserie de Koekelberg, Grandes Brasseries Atlas, Expo 58
Drinking in Koekelberg // The past, and a future?
Drinking in Koekelberg // The past, and a future?

Change comes slowly to Brussels. But it is coming to the corner of Brussels where the unfashionable communes of Koekelberg, Jette, and Ganshoren meet at Parc Elisabeth in a jigsaw puzzle of municipal borders. Hotel Restaurant Taverne Le Frederiksborg and Bar Eliza represent old and new Brussels, and show in their contrasting fortunes how accelerating demographic changes are reshaping the neighbourhood. They also serve beer.

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Breweries and Bars, Criticism and CommentEoghan WalshKoekelberg, Jette, Ganshoren, Bar Eliza, Carlsberg, Parc Elisabeth, brasserie de la senne, Kids, Brussels, molenbeek