Description

The owners of a nearby ostrich farm in Lo-Reninge with accommodation for holidaymakers, Urbain Coutteau and Philippe Driessens, developed an interest in serving their guests distinctive regional beers. They started doing this in 2001 with the help of local winemaker Carlo Grootaert and this project eventually grew into its own independent commercial venture. Founded in 2003, Struise made beers at the Caulier brewery in northern Hainaut. From 2006 to 2014 they have been produced in the Deca brewery in Woesten-Vleteren in West Flanders, after the beers were brewed in their own brewhouse. The company has reported that its own microbrewery and tasting room is open and operating in Het Oud Schooltje (a renovated school building) in Oostvleteren. The company takes its name from the historic Flemish word for ostrich, which is also a contemporary slang expression and means "hard". They refer to the name as "The Sturdy Brewers" in English, and many of their labels feature ostriches, a trait they share with the Dutch brewery Brouwerij 't IJ. Following industry trends made popular by American craft breweries, the brewery has recently ventured [when?] Into stronger, tastier beers and also into barrel aging. She has also worked with other European artisans on the beer scene, such as the Danish Mikkeller, the Estonian Põhjala, the Belgians Picobrouwerij Alvinne and Brouwerij De Molen from the Netherlands, and American breweries. While their Schwarzer Albert was originally conceived in collaboration with the United States-based Ebenezer's Pub, the joint effort to create a "Pannepot Cafe" in Braunschweig, Maine, was abandoned in May 2009. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)