De Brouwmoaten

De Brouwmoaten began with three students from Roeselare who met in Ghent and shared a growing fascination with craft beer. Their early experiments took place around a modest 30-litre brew kettle, eventually producing WUK Blond+ in early 2017. From that first release grew a West Flemish beer firm whose WUK range now includes blond, dark, session and barrel-aged expressions. From friendship to first brew The brewery’s story starts with three Roeselare students brought together in Ghent by a common interest in tastings, brewery visits and regional beers. In 2010 they began turning the idea of making their own beer into regular small-batch experiments. Their first named success, WUK Blond+, was launched in early 2017, giving the group the confidence to share its beer more widely. A distinctly West Flemish range The official brewery presentation describes WUK Blond+ as a strong, golden-blond beer built around barley and wheat malts, Magnum bitter hops and Cascade aroma hops. The range later broadened with WUK Brūn, a dark beer with roasted coffee-and-chocolate character; WUK Vier°, a lower-alcohol, hop-forward session beer; and WUK Oaked, a limited release matured on an oak rum barrel. A beer firm rather than a traditional brewhouse De Brouwmoaten is registered in Roeselare as a beer-manufacturing enterprise, while beer-firm listings identify its beers as brewed at another brewery, including Gulden Spoor in Gullegem. That places the company within Belgium’s modern beer-firm tradition: a distinct brand and brewer-led project whose beers may be produced at a partner brewery. De Brouwmoaten’s defining character is a friendship-born West Flemish beer project that grew from small-batch experiments into an evolving WUK range. Roeselare, West Flanders, Belgium; the founders met in Ghent. 2017 2010: The three founders began experimenting with their own beer around a 30-litre brew kettle. 2017: WUK Blond+ was launched in early 2017. 2017: The beer firm De Brouwmoaten was established; Belgian business records list its registration date as 26 September 2017.