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Belle-Vue was riding a wave of success that very few lambic breweries were achieving at the time, but to do this they needed the help of one brewery still bigger than them in Belgium: Artois. Belle-Vue partnered with Artois to help expand its brand in the export market. The cost of this was a 43% minority share for Artois in Belle-Vue with Constant still remaining in charge of Belle-Vue. When Artois merged with Jupiler in 1991 to create Interbrew it effectively put an end to the Vandenstock stake in Belle-Vue.
Today Brasserie Belle-Vue exists under the AB-InBev umbrealla and consistently puts out non-traditional, sweetened lambics for the masses. No longer producing a traditional lambic or gueuze, the final true-to-style Belle-Vue product was the Belle-Vue Selection Lambic released in 1999. Belle-Vue beers are now produced at the brewery in St. Pieters-Leeuw located just outside the Brussels Capital Region in Flemish Brabant<ref name=“WildBrews”>Jeff Sparrow, [[Books#Wild Brews: Culture and Craftsmanship in the Belgian Tradition|Wild Brews: Culture and Craftsmanship in the Belgian Tradition]], 2005</ref>. (drinking wild beers)
== Beers ==