Huisbrouwerij de 3 vaten

Huisbrouwerij de 3 vaten belongs to Ekeren’s small but distinctive beer landscape: a local beer firm whose name appears on several Belgian beer listings, while production records place its beers with Brouwerij Boelens in Belsele rather than at an independently documented brewhouse. That combination makes it a useful example of Belgium’s beer-firm tradition, where local identity and brewing location are not always the same thing. An Ekeren beer identity The brewery is documented at Herautenlaan 7 in Ekeren, Antwerp, with the web address 3vaten.be and the same telephone number across independent beer references. Its locality is part of the identity: Ekeren is associated with the nickname Bierpruvers, and the brewery’s listed beers include Bierpruver Dubbel Bruin, Bierpruver Tripel and Bierpruver Winter. A beer firm, not a proven production site Zythos’s 2017 register places Huisbrouwerij De 3 Vaten among Belgian beer firms and explicitly warns that a company called a brewery may not own brewing equipment or brew itself. For this exact entity, the register names Brouwerij Boelens in Belsele as the brewing brewery. That distinction is central to the heritage: De 3 Vaten is documented as the local beer firm, while Boelens is the recorded production partner. The documented range A Belgian beer catalogue lists three beers under the exact brewery name: Bierpruver Dubbel Bruin at 7.5%, Bierpruver Tripel at 9%, and Bierpruver Winter at 8%. The available evidence confirms the association and styles, but does not establish a first-brew or launch date for any individual variant. A distinctly Ekerse beer identity carried through a beer-firm model and brewed with a named external partner. Ekeren, Antwerp, Belgium 2016: The Belgian Beer Board listed De 3 Vaten in Ekeren and identified Brouwerij Boelens in Belsele as its brewing partner. 2017: Zythos recorded Huisbrouwerij De 3 Vaten at Herautenlaan 7, Ekeren, with its beers brewed at Brouwerij Boelens.