Brouwerij Haacht

On June 14, 1898, Eugène De Ro, engineer, brewed in the fermentation companies, his first beer in the 'dairy of Haecht' . This was immediately renamed 'Haecht brewery and dairy'.

In 1902, Eugène De Ro adapted the installations to also brew low-fermentation beer.

The beers were quickly appreciated in Brussels. Thanks to the 'beer tram' - the steam tram between Brussels and Haacht, which had been electric since 1924, the beer could easily be transported there in wooden barrels.

In 1929, the dairy activities were definitively stopped and they focused solely on brewing beer.

From 1950, the first bottling plant was put into use, so that they could also put bottled beer on the market.

 In 1951, Alfred van der Kelen, son-in-law of Eugène De Ro, in charge of the brewery and later his son

Frederic van der Kelen. Frederic was the driving force behind the expansion of the real estate portfolio.

The last decades have seen major investments such as the complete renovation of the fermentation, lagering and filtration in 1990, the renewal of the brewhouse in 1994, a new bottling plant in 2002 and in 2006 the 'warm rooms' where the Tongerlo abbey beers refermented in the bottle.