Brouwerij Boon

The origins of today's brewery date back to 1680, when JB Claes bought a farm in Lembeek and set up a brewery and distillery there. In 1860, Louis Paul acquired the Procutionary Buildings from the Claes family and began producing Lambic and Faro beers. At that time the brewery was called "Brasserie de Saint Roch". A new malt house was added in 1890. In 1875 the first brewing attempts to produce Geuze-Lambic began. Since Louis Paul had no heir, he sold his brewery to Pierre Troch in 1898. In 1927 his son René Troch was forced to sell the company due to a crisis; Petrus-Joseph De Vits became the new owner. In the line of succession, the brewery passed to his son Rene. In 1978 Frank Boon bought the company and renamed it after his family name. In 1989 Boon relocated the brewery to the center of Lembeek for capacity and space reasons; beer production was resumed there in 1989. Annual production today is around 10,000 hectoliters of beer.