Brasserie Devaux

Brasserie Devaux belongs to Philippeville’s documented brewing heritage, not to the modern restaurant of the same name in Veldegem. Its clearest surviving legacy is Schwendi, a beer created for Philippeville’s Ambassade du Lapin à la Bière and later brewed by Brasserie de Silly. The old Devaux brewery therefore survives in Belgian beer history through a local beer, a city tradition, and a name still tied to the town’s brewing landscape. A Philippeville brewery remembered Regional heritage material identifies a former Brasserie Devaux in Philippeville, while a Walloon public-sector inventory lists “Brasserie Devaux” among the town’s industrial and commercial sites. A local historical association’s catalogue also records a dedicated study titled “La brasserie DEVAUX,” confirming that the brewery is treated as part of Philippeville’s researched heritage rather than as a fictional or purely commercial label. Schwendi’s surviving thread The Ambassade du Lapin à la Bière identifies Schwendi as originating with the former Brasserie Devaux in Philippeville, although the beer is now brewed by Brasserie de Silly. The confraternity describes the standard Schwendi as a 6.5% high-fermentation beer and its Cuvée Spéciale as an 8% high-fermentation variant. Both are linked to Philippeville’s culinary tradition of rabbit with beer and nettles. Brasserie Devaux’s documented legacy is a Philippeville beer tradition carried forward through Schwendi. Philippeville, Namur, Belgium