Brasserie Cantillon

In Brussels, Brasserie Cantillon preserves lambic brewing as both a living craft and a place visitors can enter. Founded in 1900, the family brewery still works with traditional equipment and produces lambic, gueuze, faro and fruit beers. Its identity is inseparable from the Brussels Gueuze Museum, whose creation helped protect a brewing tradition once regarded as old-fashioned. A working brewery in Brussels Cantillon stands at rue Gheude 56 in Anderlecht, Brussels, where the brewery and Brussels Museum of the Gueuze share the same historic site. The brewery describes its copper kettles, wooden barrels and brewing process as continuing the tradition established at its foundation. Visitors encounter not a reconstructed display, but an operating family brewery still making traditional spontaneously fermented beers. Safeguarding lambic heritage The Brussels Gueuze Museum was founded in 1978 at the initiative of Jean-Pierre Van Roy and friends. Its purpose was to help save Cantillon from bankruptcy and preserve a brewing culture that had fallen out of fashion. Tours, exhibitions and public brewing sessions turned the brewery into a working museum, carrying Brussels lambic heritage to audiences far beyond Belgium. A living Brussels lambic brewery where traditional brewing equipment, methods and museum work remain part of the same heritage. Brussels, Belgium 1900 1900: Brasserie Cantillon was founded in Brussels. 1978: The Brussels Gueuze Museum was founded through Jean-Pierre Van Roy’s initiative to help preserve Cantillon and the region’s spontaneous-fermentation tradition.