Brasserie de la Senne

De la Senne is the initiative of Bernard Leboucq and Yvan De Baets. Leboucq founded the St. Peter brewery in 2003 in the former Lambic brewery Moriau in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw. He then founded Zinnebir, named after the Zinneke parade. De Baets worked at Brouwerij De Ranke in Dottignies / Dottenijs. The two decided to set up a brewery together in 2006. Since the building in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw was no longer available, they were brewing temporarily in the De Ranke and Proef breweries. In the meantime, the brewers looked for and found a suitable location in Brussels, a former industrial bakery in Molenbeek. A first test batch was brewed in the new premises at the end of 2010. The brewery has a reputation for brewing fine ales and "frustratingly rare mixes", which often include lambic from the nearby Cantillon Brewery. In 2013, they worked with the Weyerbacher Brewing Company in Pennsylvania to make a beer called Manneken-Penn, and with the Bluejacket Brewery in Washington, DC, on a beer called Gray Jacket, in the style of the beer used to be used by miners in the Belgian region of Hainaut