Brouwerij Deca

In Woesten, Brouwerij Deca carries a brewing story that stretches from an eighteenth-century village brewery to a family-run modern operation. Its identity was shaped by successive Belgian brewing families, wartime rebuilding, and the Christiaens family’s revival of the site. Today, the brewery combines traditional top fermentation and bottle refermentation with oak-aged beers, while its red-branded tasting glass keeps the rebuilt 1920 brewery at the center of its visual heritage. A Woesten brewery reborn The brewery’s origins reach back to the end of the eighteenth century, when it was operated by the Synaeve family. After passing to Florimond Vanneste in 1881, the original brewery was destroyed during the First World War. Reconstruction began in 1920 along Elverdingestraat, the site where Brouwerij Deca remains today. How Deca became Deca The Vanneste family transferred the brewery to the Decaestecker family in 1926. Their surname supplied the name DECA, taken from its first four letters. Under Maurice, Paul, and Antoine Decaestecker, the brewery produced beers and soft drinks before the Christiaens family acquired it in 1980. Family brewing, expressed in the glass Georges Christiaens restarted the brewery in 1991 after a period of rental and vacancy, and his son Nicolas later joined the business. Deca’s present range remains rooted in top fermentation, natural bottle refermentation, and unfiltered, unpasteurised beers, including oak-aged releases. The brewery’s 15cl goblet, recorded by the Belgian Beer Glass Museum, places the red Deca logo and ‘Anno 1920’ rebuilding reference into everyday tasting culture. A rebuilt Woesten brewery whose family succession is written into its name, methods, and glassware. Woesten, Vleteren, West Flanders, Belgium Late 18th century 1881: The brewery passed from the Synaeve family to Florimond Vanneste through marriage. 1920: Rebuilding began on the current Elverdingestraat site after the original brewery was destroyed in the First World War. 1926: The brewery passed to the Decaestecker family and acquired the DECA name. 1980: The Christiaens family bought Brouwerij Deca. 1991: Georges Christiaens restarted the brewery after its period of rental and vacancy.