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== History ==

The roots of Brasserie Cantillon stretch back even further than the brewery’s officially recognized founding date of 1900. According to Van den Steen in ''Geuze & Kriek: The Secret of Lambic Beer'', the forefather of the Cantillon brewing family was a grain merchant named Auguste whose son, Paul, had no intention of continuing his father’s craft. Auguste then began to search for a business that would suit his son’s brewing hobby. Since starting a brewery was too expensive, Paul made several attempts to take over breweries in the [[The_Language_of_Lambic#The_Town_of_Lembeek|Lembeek}} area. By 1894 Auguste had bought the Vandezande-Van Roy brewery located in Lembeek’s Hondzocht district.

The roots of Brasserie Cantillon stretch back even further than the brewery’s officially recognized founding date of 1900. According to Van den Steen in ''Geuze & Kriek: The Secret of Lambic Beer'', the forefather of the Cantillon brewing family was a grain merchant named Auguste whose son, Paul, had no intention of continuing his father’s craft. Auguste then began to search for a business that would suit his son’s brewing hobby. Since starting a brewery was too expensive, Paul made several attempts to take over breweries in the [[The_Language_of_Lambic#The_Town_of_Lembeek|Lembeek]] area. By 1894 Auguste had bought the Vandezande-Van Roy brewery located in Lembeek’s Hondzocht district.

By 1900, Paul Cantillon and his wife Marie Troch began a gueuze blending business in the industrial quarter of Cureghem which was part of the southern Brussels community of Anderlecht. The brewery was located in a very busy area near the Bruxelles-Midi train station, the Mons boulevard, and the canal that ran through the city. Jean-Pierre Van Roy, who wrote the forward to ''La Gueuze Gourmande'' calls the period between 1900 and 1937 the ''"première periode de la brasserie"''. During these first thirty-seven years Cantillon never actually brewed a beer. Instead, they bought lambic from a variety of producers in the area to blend and sell on their own considering Cantillon a ''biersteker'' (beer blender) and ''marchand de bières'' (beer merchant). They would house their beers at Gheudestraat 56-58 where the brewery is located today.

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 == History ==
-The roots of Brasserie Cantillon stretch back even further than the brewery’s officially recognized founding date of 1900. According to Van den Steen in ''Geuze & Kriek: The Secret of Lambic Beer'', the forefather of the Cantillon brewing family was a grain merchant named Auguste whose son, Paul, had no intention of continuing his father’s craft.  Auguste then began to search for a business that would suit his son’s brewing hobby. Since starting a brewery was too expensive, Paul made several attempts to take over breweries in the [[The_Language_of_Lambic#The_Town_of_Lembeek|Lembeek}} area. By 1894 Auguste had bought the Vandezande-Van Roy brewery located in Lembeek’s Hondzocht district.
+The roots of Brasserie Cantillon stretch back even further than the brewery’s officially recognized founding date of 1900. According to Van den Steen in ''Geuze & Kriek: The Secret of Lambic Beer'', the forefather of the Cantillon brewing family was a grain merchant named Auguste whose son, Paul, had no intention of continuing his father’s craft.  Auguste then began to search for a business that would suit his son’s brewing hobby. Since starting a brewery was too expensive, Paul made several attempts to take over breweries in the [[The_Language_of_Lambic#The_Town_of_Lembeek|Lembeek]] area. By 1894 Auguste had bought the Vandezande-Van Roy brewery located in Lembeek’s Hondzocht district.
 By 1900, Paul Cantillon and his wife Marie Troch began a gueuze blending business in the industrial quarter of Cureghem which was part of the southern Brussels community of Anderlecht.  The brewery was located in a very busy area near the Bruxelles-Midi train station, the Mons boulevard, and the canal that ran through the city.  Jean-Pierre Van Roy, who wrote the forward to ''La Gueuze Gourmande'' calls the period between 1900 and 1937 the ''"première periode de la brasserie"''.  During these first thirty-seven years Cantillon never actually brewed a beer.  Instead, they bought lambic from a variety of producers in the area to blend and sell on their own considering Cantillon a ''biersteker'' (beer blender) and ''marchand de bières'' (beer merchant). They would house their beers at Gheudestraat 56-58 where the brewery is located today.