Brasserie Duvieusart

Brasserie Duvieusart belonged to Nivelles’s once-busy brewing landscape, operating from the Faubourg de Charleroi and producing a broad range of Belgian beers. Its best-known surviving association is Archiduc, a beer brewed there from 1888 until the brewery’s production ended after a fire in 1955. The former site remains part of Nivelles’s industrial and architectural memory. A Nivelles brewery Edmond Duvieusart took over the Nivelles brewery Les IV Fils Aymon from Eduard De Mulder in 1888. The business was incorporated as Brasserie Duvieusart S.A. in 1929. Its recorded range included Archiduc alongside beers such as Bavière, Bear Pils, Faro, Kriek, Scotch Ale, Stout and several Nivelles-branded specialties. Archiduc and the end of brewing Archiduc was produced by Brasserie Duvieusart from 1888. The brewery ceased production on its Nivelles site in 1955 after a destructive fire. Later corporate changes followed: the brewery had come under Cobrassi in 1954, and the site was subsequently taken over by Imperial and Caulier, which closed it. Archiduc continued to be produced in Ghlin until 1962. A surviving site The former brewery stood in Nivelles’s Faubourg de Charleroi. After remaining abandoned for decades, the site underwent a long redevelopment process from 1989 to 2019. A historic brewery building was retained and renovated as part of a wider project combining apartments, offices, services and a crèche. A Nivelles brewery remembered through its long-lived Archiduc and its surviving urban footprint. Nivelles, Faubourg de Charleroi, Belgium 1888 1888: Edmond Duvieusart took over Les IV Fils Aymon in Nivelles; Archiduc production is recorded from this year. 1929: The business was recorded as Brasserie Duvieusart S.A. 1954: Cobrassi took control of the brewery, which became Brasserie de Nivelles. 1955: A fire brought brewing at the Nivelles site to an end. 1962: The later production of Archiduc in Ghlin ended.