Beer "Tongerlo" Prior, 0.33 L

Family Haaht private brewery traces its history back more than 110 years. The progenitor of the brewery became a dairy farm called "Melkerij van Haecht", built in 1893, Eugène De Ro - master engineer fermentation. It was here June 14, 1898 Eugene De Ro brewed the first beer fermented, and four years later - bottom fermentation. Beer has become so popular that the brewery "Brouwerij en Melkerij van Haecht" by 1913 was considered the pinnacle of Belgian brewing. By 1929, the economy has shifted only in the production of beer, in connection with what has been significantly expanded the range of produced grades: appeared side, ale, lager and export Pilsener. In the record in 1937 the brewery has sold 50 million liters of beer!

Previously sold only beer barrels, but in 1950, Eugène De Ro built a bottling line of beer bottles. In 1951, Eugene-law - Alfred van der Kelen, who became in charge of the brewery Haaht, bought a number of small breweries in different parts of Belgium, extending the scope of beer Haaht. Its successor, the son of Frederick in the period from 1970 to 1990 to further expand the company's ownership by acquiring breweries in the southern Netherlands and northern France.

Today, having updated the equipment in its factories and commissioned a new hall for bottling beer in kegs, Haacht Brewery is a rapidly growing company that is confident in the future. Frederick van der Kelen still successfully manage the company. Haacht Brewery today is the third brewery in Belgium in terms of production Pilsener.