Posts tagged Molenbeek
The Session #129 - A Plea for a Brussels Pils
The Session #129 - A Plea for a Brussels Pils

I settle into my seat with a draught glass of Redor Pils from Brasserie Dupont, contemplating my lot, and the lot of pils in Brussels. This is a beer style (or at least a family of beers made using bottom-fermenting yeasts at low temperatures) that defined brewing in this city for half a century, but has since vanished along with the breweries that made it so dominant. As brewing undergoes a revival in the city, it is time for the new generation of Brussels breweries to do justice to the city’s beer history.

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History and HeritageEoghan Walshpils, vandenheuvel, wiel's, Wielemans-Ceuppens, Vorst, Molenbeek, Cantillon, Koekelberg, Grande Brasserie de Koekelberg, Grandes Brasseries Atlas, Expo 58
Beer & the city // Surviving Brusselization: the fate of Brasseries Atlas
Beer & the city // Surviving Brusselization: the fate of Brasseries Atlas

Brussels has not been kind to its architectural heritage. The process of “Brusselization” describes the “indiscriminate and careless introduction of modern high-rise buildings into gentrified neighbourhoods” that characterised post-war urban planning in Brussels and was responsible for the callous destruction of historically important buildings, whole neighbourhoods, and local communities. Brussels’ breweries and their architectural legacy were not immune. The Grandes Brasseries Atlas is an exception.

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History and HeritageEoghan WalshCanal, Anderlecht, industrial architecture, koelschip, Brasseries Atlas, history, Art Deco, Pils, Molenbeek, bars