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Brouwerij Alken-Maes

Alken, Vlaams Gewest, Belgium

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Score

2.92/ 5

Popularity

Extremely widely rated

Beers tracked

85

Brouwerij Alken-Maes is a brewery in Alken, Vlaams Gewest, Belgium. We grade it Limited, with a score of 2.92 out of 5 on the beer it brews — #404 in Belgium. Of the 85 beers we track, 71% are Belgian Ale and 13% Pale Lager.

Ranked

Belgium
#404
Worldwide
#21,774

About Brouwerij Alken-Maes

Alken-Maes was created out of the 1988 merger of two small breweries, Maes, located in Waarloos and Alken. Both had specialized in pils (Maes was producing Maes pils and Alken Cristal pils) until Maes purchased the Union brewery (based in Jumet) in 1978, which produced Grimbergen beer among others. After the merger, the group continued to purchase other breweries to expand their offer to a larger panel of beers. In 1989, the new brewery purchased a 50% stake in De Keersmaeker brewery, which specialized in spontaneous fermentation beers such as Mort Subite. In 2000, it bought Ciney and Brugs Witbier as well as the other 50% of De Keersmaeker. In the same year, the brewery was bought by British company Scottish & Newcastle, which in turn was bought by the Carlsberg/Heineken consortium in 2007. In 2002, it took over the Louwaege brewery from Kortemark (producing Louwaeges Kriek and high fermentation Hapkin). Alken-Maes has now become the number two on the Belgian market. Its headquarters are in Waarloos.

What they brew

  • Belgian Ale71%
  • Pale Lager13%
  • Wheat Beer8%
  • Other5%
  • Sour / Other3%

How their beers score

Every beer we track from Brouwerij Alken-Maes, grouped by score.

  • 5.0
  • 4.5
  • 4.02
  • 3.533
  • 3.024
  • 2.513
  • 2.02
  • 1.5
  • 1.0
  • 0.5

Find them

Address
Stationsstraat, Alken, Vlaams Gewest
Website
alken-maes.be
Social
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Same owner

Part of Heineken.

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