Bierfirma Valocco

Bierfirma Valocco belongs to Belgium’s contract-brewing tradition rather than the image of a brewery with its own brewhouse. Based in Beerse, Antwerp province, Valocco developed beers that were produced by established breweries, including De Proefbrouwerij in Lochristi. Surviving records connect the firm with beers such as Flodder and Barse Cuvée, preserving a small but tangible chapter of modern Belgian beer culture. A Beerse beer firm Valocco is documented at Rode-Kruisstraat 18 in Beerse. Zythos lists it as a bierfirma—a beer company commissioning production elsewhere—and identifies De Proefbrouwerij in Lochristi as its brewing partner. That distinction matters: the available evidence supports Valocco as the brand owner or recipe developer, not as an independently operating brewery with its own documented installation. Recipes made at De Proefbrouwerij Contemporary beer records associate Valocco recipes with Patrick Cox and Heidi Van Loon. One surviving account identifies Barse Cuvée as brewed at De Proefbrouwerij to their recipe and describes it as the darker companion to Flodder. Separate beer listings identify Flodder as an 8% high-fermentation beer made by De Proefbrouwerij for bierfirma Valocco. Valocco’s documented identity is that of a Beerse beer firm whose recipes travelled through De Proefbrouwerij rather than a self-contained brewery. Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium 2017: Zythos listed Bierfirma Valocco in Beerse and recorded De Proefbrouwerij in Lochristi as its contract brewer. 2016: A contemporary beer account recorded Barse Cuvée as brewed at De Proefbrouwerij to a Valocco recipe. 2019: Zythos continued to list Valocco in Beerse with De Proefbrouwerij as its brewing partner.