Brasserie La Ferme au Chêne

In Durbuy, Brasserie La Ferme au Chêne revived a local brewing identity inside a restaurant rather than building a distant industrial brewery. Founded by Jacques and Michel Trine in 1989, the microbrewery became closely associated with Marckloff, a beer whose name reaches back to Philippe Marckloff, a sixteenth-century brewer in Durbuy. Its character is inseparable from place: a small Ardennes town, a historic house, and beer made for local enjoyment. A brewing tradition revived The Trine brothers brought brewing back to La Ferme au Chêne in 1989, creating Marckloff in their Durbuy brewpub. The project is described as part of a broader revival of Durbuy’s older brewing tradition, with the site connected historically to the house known as “Au Chesne” and to Philippe Marckloff, who was active as a brewer in the town around 1560. A beer rooted in Durbuy Marckloff became the brewery’s defining beer: a locally made amber ale associated with Durbuy and traditionally served at La Ferme au Chêne. The brewery’s identity therefore rests less on a broad commercial range than on one strongly place-bound beer and the hospitality setting in which it was brewed and enjoyed. The next chapter The original brewing venture ended when the Trine era concluded in 2013, but the Durbuy brewing story continued. A new team resumed the adventure in 2014, and later accounts connect the Marckloff tradition with brewing at the Château de Durbuy. A small Durbuy brewpub that turned one locally rooted beer into a living expression of the town’s brewing past. Durbuy, Province of Luxembourg, Belgium 1989 1989: Jacques and Michel Trine founded the microbrewery at La Ferme au Chêne and created Marckloff. 2013: The original La Ferme au Chêne brewing operation closed as the Trine era came to an end. 2014: A new team of Durbuysians resumed the brewing venture.