AtlasBelgium1,274 on record

Belgium

Western Europe

No country packs more brewing variety into less ground. Belgium runs from Trappist monasteries operating under a certification only a handful of abbeys hold, through spontaneously fermented lambic that can only be made in one small stretch of countryside, to sour red ales aged in oak for two years. Yeast is treated as an ingredient with opinions rather than a process step.

Beers on record

1,274

Brewing since

1074

Regions

PlateBelgium109 towns

Fig. 2. Circle area is beers on record for that town. Labels appear as room allows, so zooming in reveals towns rather than enlarging them. Only towns whose coordinates could be sourced are drawn, so an unmarked town means a missing coordinate rather than a town without beer. Tiles from OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap.

Towns as a table109

Towns in Belgium with beers on record
Town	Beers
Ertvelde	109
Mechelen	63
Melle	56
Brussels	51
Bavikhove	47
Halle	42
Purnode	40
Turnhout	40
Hoogstraten	39
Oudenaarde	30
Vlezenbeek	26
Irchonwelz	26
Hijfte	25
Quenast	24
Ghent	23
Izegem	20
Watou	19
Buggenhout	19
Sint-Pieters-Leeuw	19
Somme-Leuze	18
Ichtegem	18
Vichte	17
Dottignies	17
Ruddervoorde	17
Dentergem	15
Thuin	14
Roeselare	13
Asse	13
Bruges	12
Achouffe	12
Londerzeel	12
Dworp	12
Gooik	11
Montignies-sur-Roc	10
Anderlecht	10
Baileux	10
Liège	9
Tourpes	8
Itterbeek	8
Achel	8
Ingelmunster	7
Breendonk	7
Bovigny	7
Chimay	6
Antwerp	6
Brunehaut	6
Mortsel	6
Ternat	6
Ruiselede	6
Pipaix	5
Steenhuffel	5
Kontich	5
Hoegaarden	4
Westvleteren	4
Lembeek	4
Binche	4
Oud-Turnhout	4
Opwijk	4
Falmignoul	4
Soy	4
Ellezelles	4
Westerlo	4
Westmalle	3
Rochefort	3
Leuven	3
Beersel	3
Blaugies	3
Woesten	3
Brugge	3
Ostend	3
baarle-hertog	3
Erpe-Mere	3
Wevelgem	3
Ecaussinnes	3
Villers-devant-Orval	2
Bellegem	2
Etterbeek	2
Kerkom	2
Sint-Lievens-Esse	2
Moen	2
Tournai	2
Beveren	2
Raeren	2
Heule	2
Ninove	2
Puurs	1
Hamont-Achel	1
Bertogne	1
Waarloos	1
Halen	1
Evergem	1
Dinant	1
Le Roeulx	1
Gottem	1
Jauche	1
Molenbeek	1
Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle	1
Meulebeke	1
Opitter	1
Diest	1
Genval	1
Kobbegem	1
Pelt	1
Itegem	1
Michelbeke	1
Ursel	1
Gullegem	1
Assebroek	1
Aubel	1

The colour of these beersSRM 4–32 · median 8

On the recordcounted from 1,274 beers

Strength

The median is 7.0% ABV. Half of them fall between 5.5% and 8.2%. Measured on 1,207 of the 1,274; the rest carry no strength.

Strongest SchuppenBoer Maxima Calvados BA14.9%
Weakest Cristal 0,0%0.0%

The record here

Breweries144
Towns119
Styles46

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: Abbaye de Leffe, 1152.

Oldest beer with a sourced year: Grimbergen Dubbel, 1128.

These are facts about this record, not about the world. They are counted from the beers on file, and the atlas is only as deep as its sources: 74% of everything it holds is American or Dutch, because that is what the bulk import reached, not because that is where beer is. So the styles most often recorded in Belgium are not necessarily the ones most often brewed there, and a country with few beers here has a thin record rather than a thin brewing scene.

Styles here

On the recordcounted from 1,274 beers

Strength

The record here

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Styles here

On the recordcounted from 1,274 beers

Strength

The record here

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