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Brasserie à Vapeur
Rue de Maréchal 1, 7904 Pipaix (Leuze-en-Hainaut)
The last working steam-powered brewery in Belgium, on machinery dating to 1785, home of the spicy Saison de Pipaix.
Known for
1beer in the cellar
1style brewed
6%ABV range
1984brewing since
Rue de Maréchal 1, 7904 Pipaix (Leuze-en-Hainaut)
Heritage
The story of à Vapeur
Brasserie a Vapeur in Pipaix is the last steam-powered brewery in Belgium, reviving a site whose brewing dates to 1785. Jean-Louis Dits and Anne-Marie Lemaire took it over in 1984 and kept the 19th-century steam machinery running.
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The brewery's old steam engine still drives the mill and pumps, the only one of its kind left working in Belgium.
From this brewery
1 beer in our cellar
Flagship pour
Saison de Pipaix
Saison · 6% ABVA living piece of history, brewed on the last working steam-powered brewery in Belgium, whose machinery dates to 1785. Dry, lightly acidic and emphatically spicy, with black pepper, ginger, sweet orange peel and star anise.
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