Brouwerij Slaghmuylder in opdracht van VVV De Faluintjesstreek

In Ninove, Slagmuylder has remained a family brewery since Emmanuel Slaghmuylder founded it in 1860. Its heritage is unusually tangible: the brewery moved from the city centre to its present site in the 1920s, retains historically significant brewing machinery, and still connects its name with Slag Pils, a local lager first made through the brewery’s new bottom-fermentation process. A Ninove brewery from the start Emmanuel Slaghmuylder began as a grain merchant before founding the brewery in Ninove. The brewery’s own history records its first lager brew in February 1860. After Emmanuel’s death, his son Ernest continued the business and introduced steam power, bottling equipment, and cooling and filtration systems, helping move the company from traditional production toward industrial brewing. The move to the modern site The original city-centre buildings became too small. Land formerly belonging to Ninove’s Saint-Cornelius and Saint-Cyprian abbey was purchased in 1920, and the present brewery was completed in 1926. Belgium’s heritage inventory identifies the site as an interwar brewery and records its surviving technical character, including a 1924 steam installation, historic refrigeration equipment, and brewing installations associated with bottom-fermented beers. Slag Pils and the local lager tradition The brewery’s official product page dates the beginning of its new low-fermentation process to 1926, when Slag Pils was born. The beer is presented as a filtered blond lager of 5% alcohol, brewed with Belgian hop flowers and associated with Ninove through the enduring phrase “Ninove drinkt Slag lager pils.” Its documented identity is local, modern for its period, and firmly tied to the brewery’s 1926 expansion. Slagmuylder’s defining character is a family brewery whose Ninove identity survives in both its historic industrial site and its local Slag lager. Ninove, East Flanders, Belgium 1860 1860: Emmanuel Slaghmuylder founded the brewery in central Ninove and produced its first lager. 1920: The brewery purchased former abbey land outside the city centre for a new site. 1926: The present brewery was completed, and Slag Pils began with a new bottom-fermentation process. 1947: The brewery acquired Belgium’s first installed fully automatic filling machine, according to the heritage inventory. 2012: The Slaghmuylder family’s brewing branch began a new phase of machinery modernisation.