Brewery De Ranke

Brewery De Ranke

Brasserie De Ranke is one of the pioneering breweries in the revival of craft beer in Belgium. 

Founded by Nino and Guido, two Dutch speakers, the De Ranke brewery has been established in Wallonia since 2005 after 11 years of brewing at the Deca brewery. We can say that the beginnings were not made in haste.

The particularity of De Ranke beers is the use of whole dried hop leaves, whereas most brewers use fresh hops transformed into pellets. Using whole hop cones ensures a unique balance of bitterness in beer.

The De Ranke brewery was one of the pioneering bitter beer breweries in Belgium long before the fashion for American IPAs arose in our country.

At a time when industrial breweries were buying up older breweries and sweetening their beers, Nino and Guido wanted to pay homage to small breweries and their bitter beers.