Brouwerij Villers

Brouwerij Villers belongs to the long, changeable history of Belgian farm breweries: a Liezele brewing house whose roots reach back to the eighteenth century, whose abbey-branded beers carried the Villers name, and whose final chapter unfolded through acquisition by Melle’s Brouwerij Huyghe. It is distinctive not as a surviving independent brewery, but as a short-lived identity inherited from the older Van Assche and Vieille Villers traditions. From Van Assche to Villers The brewery’s documented lineage begins with a farm-brewery establishment around 1780 and a 1727 foundation date associated with the Van Assche brewery in Liezele. The house operated under the Van Assche name for much of its earlier history, then became Vieille Villers before adopting the shorter Brouwerij Villers name in the early 1990s. This was a brewery identity shaped by renaming and succession rather than by a single uninterrupted brand story. Abbey beers and the Huyghe chapter Villers was associated with abbey-style beers including Vieille Villers and Triple Villers. Brouwerij Huyghe’s own history records that, from March 1999, the former Vieille Villers brewery at Puurs became part of Huyghe’s brewing group and that these beers were subsequently brewed in Melle. The Villers name therefore survived beyond the original site, even as independent production there came to an end. A historic Liezele brewery remembered through its changing names and the abbey beers that carried Villers into the Huyghe era. Liezele, Antwerp, Belgium 1727 1727: The brewery’s documented historical lineage begins with the Van Assche brewery in Liezele. 1988: The brewery operated under the Vieille Villers name after its earlier Van Assche period. 1992: The brewery adopted the name Brouwerij Villers, according to brewery-history references. 1999: Brouwerij Huyghe took over the Villers operation; Vieille Villers and Triple Villers were thereafter brewed in Melle.