25/05/2020
In 1990 Jean-Paul Van der Haegen compiled the recipe for La Divine. Jean-Paul trained as a brewing engineer in Ghent. He is the father of Bertrand, on...
+25/05/2020
We have carried out several maintenance and installation jobs during the lockdown. The barrel line (barrels of 20, 25, 30 and 50 l) was set up in a br...
+25/05/2020
This 45-page catalogue details the sales and marketing materials that Brasserie de Silly make available to you. Use them to give your customers a plea...
+16/02/2020
Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid, representing His Royal Highness, led a trade mission to the People’s Republic of China. During this mission to B...
+16/02/2020
Brasserie de Silly scooped two medals at the 2019 Brussels Beer Challenge; a gold for Silly Saison and silver for Scotch Pinot Noir Barrel Aged. Bruss...
+16/02/2020
At the Horeca Expo in Ghent we received the medals awarded by the Brussels Beer Challenge for Silly Saison and Silly Scotch Pinot Noir Barrel Aged. We...
+16/02/2020
The days of winter can be very cold indeed. The ideal opportunity to warm yourself up at home with a tasty winter beer. Last year Enghien Noël change...
+16/02/2020
Introduce your customers to the Silly Scotch gift set. An original gift in beautiful packaging. Silly Scotch is a full-mouthed, generous beer for the ...
+16/02/2020
I am responsible for logistics at Brasserie de Silly. Bertrand recruited me in January 2012. Ever since then my job has seen tremendous changes. I sta...
+16/02/2020
When we look back at 2019 from a production perspective, it was a year of significant investments and major changes. We had a 500m2 hall built to hous...
+02/07/2019
Summer is on its way. Temperatures are rising and so is the demand for refreshing beers, our Pink Killer for prime example. This fruity thirst-quenche...
+02/07/2019
Emile, Fabiloa, Gisèle, Maurice, Henri, André and Jeanne – all of these are the names of pop-up shops you can find dotted around the parks of Brus...
+02/07/2019
Emile, Fabiloa, Gisèle, Maurice, Henri, André and Jeanne – all of these are the names of pop-up shops you can find dotted around the parks of Brus...
+02/07/2019
Café 1030 is the tale of two brothers who wanted to start a bar … but not just any bar and not just anywhere. They were looking for an oasis in the...
+02/07/2019
Brasserie de Silly’s new bottling line has been in operation for over a year now. It took us two years to prepare for the changeover. In 2015 we had...
+02/07/2019
Brasserie de Silly is the proud sponsor of two of the largest festivals that have seen the light in recent years. First and foremost there is LaSemo i...
+02/07/2019
The 9th edition of the Tournai (Doornik) RAMDAM Festival (between 10 and 22 January 2019) met with great success once again. The programme included ...
+02/07/2019
Good news for fruit beer lovers: in response to customer requests going back many years Silly Kriek has landed. A beer like this, perfectly suited to ...
+02/07/2019
Green Killer is an India Pale Ale (IPA): a top-fermented beer of English origin. IPAs were developed in the 18th century for the export market, primar...
+02/07/2019
Brasserie de Silly has just introduced a new gift box comprising six different Silly beers: Silly Blanche (25cl), La Divine (33cl), Silly Bio (25cl), ...
+02/07/2019
Maïté Le Myé of Le Carillon, the café situated just opposite the Church of Saint Nicolas in Edingen (Enghien), is celebrating her fifth anniversar...
+02/07/2019
Horecatel is the most important trade fair for the hospitality industry and anyone involved in gastronomy in the French-speaking part of Belgium. You ...
+02/07/2019
We are building a new production hall in our brewery. The building works commenced in mid-November 2018 and finished in May 2019. Most of the heavy wo...
+04/12/2018
Enghien has had a face-lift After we refreshed the entire Silly and Abbaye de Forest ranges in 2017, it was the turn of the Enghien beers to have a ma...
+04/12/2018
Silly Scotch has just celebrated its first centenary. This beer first flowed out of the brewery’s tanks at the end of the First World War after brew...
+04/12/2018
For over thirty years Lorenzo Belfiore has stood behind the bar at Le Coq Wallon. He has been the manager of this café in Zinnik (Soignies) since 198...
+04/12/2018
Brasserie de Silly usually puts in an appearance at the Horeca Expo and this year was no exception. The brewery exhibited in Ghent from the 18th to 22...
+04/12/2018
We held our brewery festival on Saturday 13th October and, just like the 2017 edition, it was a great success. Silly Day 2018 was staged in close co-o...
+04/12/2018
We are making innovative changes to different areas of our business but without ever losing sight of our mission statement “the taste of the brewer...
+11/04/2018
The Horecatel trade fair for the hospitality industry is held every March in the Ardennes town of Marche-en-Famenne. This year’s outing was as popul...
+11/04/2018
Gojo is the perfect meeting place, just opposite Gravenbrakel railway station. This café-bar-diner is set in a dream location for co-owner, Noémie, ...
+11/04/2018
Francesco Cincinnato (everyone calls him Franco), has spent the last 29 years working for Brasserie de Silly. These few words are not enough to pay tr...
+11/04/2018
At this time of year you should be drinking Silly Saison, a typical Belgian spring beer. When, in 1850, our founder, Marcellin Meynsbrughen, set up th...
+11/04/2018
We’d like to recommend Tatie Danielle, a restaurant in Tournai that specialises in delicious, robust, tasty food served with a Brasserie de Silly be...
+11/04/2018
A recipe with Silly Blanche Ingredients: Fresh coriander 2 cod steaks, about 400g in total 8 slices of bacon Grain mustard 100ml cream 1 bottle of Sil...
+11/04/2018
April 2018 is a busy time for our production department; soon the first bottles will emerge from our brand-new bottling line. This is a proud moment a...
+11/04/2018
Spring has arrived, and with it a new bottling line at Brasserie de Silly. At the end of 2017 we decided to invest in new bottling equipment to enhanc...
+19/12/2017
We are getting close to the end of the year, the perfect moment to check the balance sheet, to plan for the future and, above all, to wish everyone a ...
+19/12/2017
Since its birth Brasserie de Silly has strived to produce beers of excellent quality and taste. Now we are also strengthening our image with new label...
+19/12/2017
Abbaye de Forest: This beer has been brewed at Brasserie de Silly since 2007. It is based on a recipe created by the Benedictine monks who lived in th...
+19/12/2017
On 10 September we staged the Silly beer festival for the first time in seven years. The event was a great success, bringing large numbers of visitors...
+19/12/2017
Scotch de Silly was created at the end of the First World War, when a regiment of Scottish soldiers was stationed near Silly. The homesick soldiers wa...
+19/12/2017
At the prompting of Belgian Beer & Food magazine, young Louvain-based chef Niels Brants put three Silly beers at the heart of three new dishes. Ni...
+19/12/2017
Brasserie de Silly continues to invest in production infrastructure. On the advice of brewery consultant, Jacques Fourneaux, and Julien Matot of Sense...
+19/12/2017
After the 1975 takeover of Brasserie Tennstedt Decroes in Enghien (Edingen), home of Double Enghien beers, Brasserie de Silly continued to launch new ...
+19/12/2017
Brasserie de Silly has been a regular presence at the Horeca Expo trade fair in Ghent for many years. This is the largest trade fair for Belgian hotel...
+19/12/2017
Some beers are just right for cooling down on a hot summer day, and others are made for the winter. Enghien Noël, Double Enghien Brune, La Divine and...
+19/12/2017
Managing a café is a Vanderkelen family tradition that has passed from father to son. “My great-great-grandfather, born in 1833, was in charge of t...
+19/12/2017
Christmas and the New Year are only just around the corner and everyone is looking for the perfect gift for family and friends. How do you find the ri...
+15/06/2017
Brewing and the appreciation of beer are very much part of the living heritage of communities all around Belgium. Now the world is catching up to what...
+15/06/2017
On Sunday, 10th September, 2017 Brasserie de Silly will host a hugely important event: its very own brewery festival! There will be lots of entertainm...
+30/05/2017
Maintaining quality standards is a top priority for Brasserie de Silly. We want quality everywhere – in the way our beers look, their pleasant s...
+30/05/2017
A wide range of Brasserie de Silly beers are made with summer drinking in mind. Silly Pils and Bio Pils – our organic beer – are really quaffa...
+30/05/2017
In a previous issue we gave an account of the history of Brasserie de Silly from our birth in 1850 to 1930. Now it’s time to move on to the next cha...
+30/05/2017
Only Belgium could have an organization like the BSB, the Office Belge Du Service De La Biere, or the Belgische dienst voor de Serveerkunst van het Bi...
+30/05/2017
Gift idea: 2 x 75 cl set It’s Father’s Day on Sunday, 18th June so the hunt for the perfect present for the old man is on! If you’re shopping fo...
+30/05/2017
Muriel Desmecht has been the manager of Café de la Brasserie, located right next to the brewery, since November 2005. It’s a sizeable place, with s...
+16/02/2017
Spring and hop shoots are in the air! When thinking about hop, beer is probably the first thing to enter your mind. And you are right. Hop is importan...
+02/11/2016
Christmas and the New Year are approaching rapidly. Many of us are looking for gifts for family and friends. Our tip: half a metre of Silly beers! Bee...
+02/11/2016
Beers brewed abroad; American beers in particular, have made inroads at several recent beer contests held around the world. Nevertheless, Belgium rema...
+02/11/2016
Over the summer the brewhall saw the installation of a new boiling kettle. This kettle is intended to replace the former mashing and boiling kettle an...
+02/11/2016
Winter beers and Christmas beers are selling well towards the end of the year. Enghien Noël is a top-fermented beer of the triple type, in other word...
+02/11/2016
Ever since the 19th century, beer has been brewed on the large farms of the Hainaut region with the use of home-grown barley and hops. In those days t...
+02/11/2016
As in previous years, Brasserie de Silly will be present at the 2016 Horeca Expo in Ghent. Visit the largest Belgian trade fair for the hotel, café, ...
+27/10/2016
In de lente van 2015 nam Katia Moenens het etablissement ‘A l’Tonne’ over dat inmiddels werd gerenoveerd met de steun van Brasserie de Silly. De...
+27/10/2016
Ingrediënten voor 4 personen: 30cl Scotch de Silly 300 g cheddarkaas 100 g stiltonkaas (of andere blauwschimmelkaas) 200 g geraspte emmanthaler 1 eet...
+07/06/2016
At Brasserie de Silly, we are passionate about brewing. It forms part of our DNA. We want you to discover our tasty beers at a get-together with frien...
+07/06/2016
As you know, Brasserie de Silly offers a wide range of promotional materials: glasses, beer mats, enamel signs , pump clips, parasols and many more. T...
+07/06/2016
Enjoy your special day, Dad! It’s Father’s Day on Sunday 12th June. Like every year, many of us will be looking for a suitable gift. But what will...
+07/06/2016
The highly talented Thierry Lombaux and Ophélie Bombois are running the newly renovated Le Brassilly. Their favourite beers? Green Killer and Silly R...
+07/06/2016
Double Enghien Blonde The aroma and taste of this beer compose a successful symphony, conducted with care but not in an overstrict manner. The initia...
+07/06/2016
Recipe serves 2 2 kilo ‘super’ mussels 1 bottle Abbaye de Forest Blonde (33 cl) 1 bunch fresh parsley 2 shallots and 2 onions 1 sprig of th...
+07/06/2016
Silly beers can be enjoyed all the year around. When the weather really starts heating up, we start looking for beers that are refreshing and quench o...
+07/06/2016
Our brewer’s latest creation, the Triple Swaf, is a blonde beer that has re-fermented in the bottle. It is based on a recipe that is 100% original. ...
+17/02/2016
Silly Beers are at the fair Intergastra Stuttgart, visit us on the booth D71 and E90 of Hall 8 : GEFAKO GmbH & Co. Getränke-Fachgroßhandels-Koo...
+16/02/2016
Saison Silly Saison Silly is now available in 33cl and 75cl bottles and in 20-litre barrels. The 25cl bottle has been withdrawn. Double Enghien Brune ...
+02/02/2016
Brasserie de Silly is very happy to present yous its new image and website. The new logo refers to the DNA of our brand : the farmer doing the harvest...
+19/01/2016
At the end of December 2015 Brasserie de Silly opened a microbrewery at the Carrefour supermarket in Mons, part of the Grands Prés shopping centre. T...
+19/01/2016
From the 18th till the 26th of January enjoy the Ramdam Festival in Tournai (Belgium). ‘Disturbing’ is a category that is hard to pin down: these ...
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