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Revision as of 21:22, 20 March 2015
Website: www.bockor.be
Phone: 056/23 51 71
Address: Kwabrugstraat 5, 8510 Bellgem
Contents
Overview
Bockor is a brewer of spontaneously fermented beers, located in West Flanders. In 1970, the brewery began buying lambic wort from Heyvaert to age and package as their own products under the Jacobins name. Since 1981 they have been brewing their own spontaneously fermented beers.
History
Founded in 1892, Bockor began as a family brewery, and is currently in the 4th generation of family ownership. Records show that it was a brewery since at least 1869. In 1938, the name Bockor was adopted.
Following the initiative of Van Honsebrouck in 1958, Bockor followed suit in 1970 to produce a filtered an sweetened product, Gueuze Lambic Jacobins. The name Jacobins refers to a a famous monastery, the hospice Saint Jacques, built in 1218 to house traveling pilgrims. The connection to Bockor is that the owner during World War I briefly stayed at Rue des Jacobins in Paris, and therefore got the name for his beers. During the French Revolution, revolutionaries met on this street in October 1789 when the government was moved to Paris.
Until 1981, Bockor purchased lambic wort from Heyvaert in Asse, until the brewery ceased production. After that, Bockor brewed it's own spontaneously fermented beer to produce Jacobins Gueuze.
Beers
- Gueuze Jacobins
- Kriek Jacobins
- Kriek Max
- Framboise Max
- Passion Max
- Rosé Max