List of Breweries in Belgium

Last updated 5 November 2026

There are 907 breweries in Belgium, one in every 2,633 Belgian companies. Most of them are small: four in five have one to four people, and only 20 firms employ 50 people or more. One in twelve breweries is based in Antwerpen, Liège, Gent, Bruxelles and Brugge. Below you find the largest breweries in Belgium, the cities where they cluster, how many started this year and which are the oldest. The full list with addresses, phone numbers and email is in our Belgian company database or through the KBO API.

907 companies indexed · Data counted on 5 November 2026

Companies9071 in2,633 Belgian companiesCities372Largest cityAntwerpen 21Sole traders23%Employees1-4 (80%)Revenue< $100K (38%)Email48%Phone45%Website54%

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	Company Name	Country	City	Address 1	State/Province	Postal Code	Website	Founding Year	Yearly Revenue in U.S. Dollars	Employees Total	Business Legal Type - Description	Number of Companies in Group	Company Registration Number
1	Inbev Belgium	Belgium	Anderlecht	Boulevard Industriel 21	Bruxelles Capitale	1070	*****.com	1988	$1,939,735,712	2,765	Corporation	1150	BE0433666709
2	Brouwerij Martens	Belgium	Bocholt	Kettingbrugweg 34	Limburg	3950	*****.be	1994	$391,210,627	267	Corporation	4	BE0453709184
3	Alken-Maes	Belgium	Mechelen	Mouterijpad 11-13, Internal Postal Box 2	Antwerpen	2800	*****.be	2018	$363,368,712	601	Corporation	4065	BE0716926901
4	Duvel Moortgat	Belgium	Puurs	Breendonk-dorp 58	Antwerpen	2870	*****.com	1931	$348,065,431	377	Corporation	44	BE0400764903
5	Brouwerij Martens	Belgium	Bocholt	Kettingbrugweg 34	Limburg	3950	*****.be	2023	$279,756,684	290	Corporation	16	BE0804575606
6	Brouwerij Haacht	Belgium	Boortmeerbeek	Provinciesteenweg 28	Vlaams Brabant	3190	*****.com	1975	$113,657,908	315	Corporation	17	BE0415276794
7	Kasteel Brouwerij Vanhonsebrouck	Belgium	Izegem	Brouwerijstraat 1	West Vlaanderen	8870	*****.be	2011	$65,724,294	101	Corporation	5	BE0405748723
8	Bieres De Chimay	Belgium	Chimay	Route Charlemagne 8	Hainaut	6464	*****.com	1989	$55,664,299	143	Corporation	20	BE0438560655
9	Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste	Belgium	Kortrijk	Brouwtorenstraat 5	West Vlaanderen	8510	*****.be	1997	$43,347,490	90	Corporation	9	BE0460735449
10	Brouwerij Der Trappisten Van Westmalle	Belgium	Westmalle	Antwerpsesteenweg 496	Antwerpen	2390	*****.be	1997	$36,395,639	52	Corporation	N/A	BE0461792947
11	Brasserie Caulier	Belgium	Péruwelz	Rue de Sondeville 134	Hainaut	7600	*****.beer	2005	$35,322,227	85	Corporation	4	BE0876281667
12	Brasserie D'orval	Belgium	Florenville	Orval 2	Luxembourg	6823	*****.be	1931	$34,991,942	42	Corporation	2	BE0404335095
13	Brasserie Maziers	Belgium	Bouillon	Rue Des Minières 2	Luxembourg	6832	*****.com	2015	$33,334,399	72	Corporation	13	BE0404335491
14	Brouwerij Lindemans	Belgium	Sint-pieters-leeuw	Lenniksebaan 1479	Vlaams Brabant	1602	*****.be	1988	$32,227,104	68	Corporation	4	BE0433144689
15	Brouwerij De Brabandere	Belgium	Harelbeke	Rijksweg 33	West Vlaanderen	8531	*****.be	2017	$30,862,370	71	Corporation	2	BE0442443823
16	Huyghe - Brouwerij Van Melle	Belgium	Melle	Brusselsesteenweg 282	Oost Vlaanderen	9090	*****.be	1985	$26,735,188	33	Corporation	3	BE0427403279
17	Brouwerij Van Steenberge	Belgium	Evergem	Lindenlaan 25	Oost Vlaanderen	9940	*****.com	2013	$25,793,086	70	Corporation	7	BE0416362404
18	Brasserie Des Trappistes De Rochefort	Belgium	Rochefort	Rue de L'Abbaye 8	Namur	5580	*****.be	2017	$24,109,658	22	Corporation	N/A	BE0678901218
19	De Proefbrouwerij	Belgium	Lochristi	Doornzelestraat 20	Oost Vlaanderen	9080	*****.com	1992	$24,038,218	48	Corporation	2	BE0446493077
20	Brasserie Dubuisson Freres	Belgium	Leuze	Chaussee de Mons 28-30	Hainaut	7904	*****.com	1997	$23,917,929	70	Corporation	32	BE0405865222
21	Brouwerij De Halve Maan	Belgium	Brugge	Walplein 26	West Vlaanderen	8000	*****.be	2005	$23,648,252	70	Corporation	5	BE0871950123
22	Het Anker	Belgium	Mechelen	Guido Gezellelaan 49	Antwerpen	2800	*****.be	1997	$21,786,359	106	Corporation	12	BE0400793706
23	Brouwerij Roman	Belgium	Oudenaarde	Hauwaart 105	Oost Vlaanderen	9700	*****.be	2012	$20,138,858	59	Corporation	5	BE0400244665
24	Brasserie Saint Bernard	Belgium	Poperinge	Trappistenweg 23	West Vlaanderen	8978	*****.be	1998	$16,917,398	50	Corporation	12	BE0463544291
25	Brasserie Du Bocq	Belgium	Yvoir	Rue de la Brasserie 4	Namur	5530	*****.be	1949	$16,285,355	70	Corporation	14	BE0402530105

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How many breweries are there in Belgium?

Breweries in Belgium

907

5 November 2026

There are 907 breweries in Belgium in our data (5 November 2026). That is one in every 2,633 Belgian companies. About 3 new firms are entered in the register every month this year (31 so far in 2026).

Structure

Single-site firms: 466 51%
Head offices: 266
Branch offices: 175

Classification

NACE-BEL 2008 code 1105, identical to NACE Rev. 2 1105. Our platform filter is NACE-BEL 2008 1105.

386 of the 907 are BV/SRL and NV/SA (43%); 207 are sole traders. They come from Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen (KBO/BCE) and our Belgian register data, through the KBO API.

Where in Belgium?

Antwerpen has the most breweries in Belgium (21), ahead of Liège (16), Gent (15), Bruxelles (13) and Brugge (12). Together the five hold one in twelve of them.

Cities by number of firms

372 Belgian cities have at least one brewery; 7 have ten or more; 169 have exactly one.

Firm sizes in Belgium

Of the 818 Belgian breweries with a known headcount, 655 (80%) have one to four people, 101 have five to nine, 42 have ten to 49 and 20 have 50 or more. Most firms turn over under $100,000 a year (278, 38%).

EU size bands · the grey line shows all Belgian companies

Micro under 10756 92%
Small 10 to 4942 5%
Medium 50 to 24918 2%
Large 250+2 0.2%

Grey line: the share among all Belgian companies (98% have under ten staff).

firms turn over more than $5 million a year; 27 more than $10 million.

firms were entered in 2026.

Largest breweries in Belgium

The biggest firms by staff and by revenue, the largest in Antwerpen. Click a name for the record.

InBev Belgium is the largest brewery in Belgium by headcount. 20 firms employ 50 people or more; 8 employ 100 or more.

1Anderlecht2,765 staff
2Mechelen601 staff
3Puurs377 staff
4Boortmeerbeek315 staff
5Bocholt290 staff
6Chimay143 staff
7Mechelen106 staff
8Izegem101 staff
9Bocholt100 staff
10Kortrijk90 staff

By employee size · 818 firms with a known headcount

Employees	Firms	%
1-4	655	80%
5-9	101	12%
10-19	20	2%
20-49	22	3%
50-99	12	1%
100-199	2	0.2%
200-499	4	0.5%
500-999	1	0.1%
1,000+	1	0.1%

80% have 1 to 4 people; 22 have 20 to 49; 20 have 50 or more.

By yearly revenue (USD)

Revenue	Firms	%
< $100K	278	38%
$100K-$500K	213	29%
$500K-$1M	5	0.7%
$1M-$5M	175	24%
$5M-$10M	33	5%
$10M-$50M	19	3%
$50M-$100M	2	0.3%
$100M-$500M	5	0.7%
$500M+	1	0.1%

38% under $100,000; 175 between $1M and $5M; 60 above $5M.

Breweries in Antwerpen

Antwerpen has 21 breweries, <0.1% of all 108,393 Antwerpen companies and 49% below the national share. Four in five Antwerpen firms have fewer than five people; none has 50 or more. 0 new firms were entered in 2026, 1 dates from before 1990.

Size

1-4 staff: 12 · 80%
5-9: 2 · 13%
10-19: 1 · 7%
20-49: 0 · 0%
50+: 0 · 0%

Legal form

Sole traders: 1 · 5%
Partnerships: 2 · 10%
BV/SRL and NV/SA: 9 · 43%
Other or none: 9 · 43%

Of the Belgian total: 2.3%
Of all Antwerpen companies: <0.1%
Against the national share: 0.5×

New

Entered 2026 so far: 0
Entered 2025: 1
Of Belgium's 2026 entries: 0.0%

Old

Before 1990: 1 · 5%
1990 or later: 20 · 95%
Of Belgium's pre-1990 firms: 1.9%

Reachable

Email: 12 · 57%
Phone: 6 · 29%
Website: 13 · 62%

Revenue (USD)

Under $100K: 6 · 38%
$100K-$500K: 3 · 19%
$500K-$1M: 0 · 0%
$1M and more: 7 · 44%

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Sole traders or BV/SRL: how they are organised

One in four Belgian breweries work as sole traders, against 32% of all Belgian companies. Two in five are BV/SRL and NV/SA.

Sole traders (eenmanszaak / entreprise individuelle)20723%
Partnerships (VOF/SNC and CommV/SComm)637%
BV/SRL and NV/SA38643%
No form on record or other25128%

Single-site: 51%
Head offices: 266
Branches: 175

All Belgian companies: 32% sole traders, 9% partnerships, 28% BV/SRL and NV/SA.

How they compare

Next to related industries

There are 27 sport companies for every brewery in Belgium.

Industry	Firms	Website	1-4 staff
Sport Companies	24,106	37%	89%
Food Distribution Companies	12,790	40%	77%
Bakeries	5,236	50%	78%
Butchers	4,207	50%	74%
Meat Companies	1,614	34%	72%
Breweries	907	54%	72%

In other countries

Belgium has more breweries than Spain or Sweden, and more per company than either.

Country	Firms	Per 1,000 cos.
The UK	3,403	0.4
Italy	1,115	0.2
Belgium	907	0.4
Spain	675	0.1
Sweden	479	0.3

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Newcomers in Belgium in 2026

31 breweries were entered in the Belgian register so far in 2026, about 3 a month, after 36 in 2025. Belgium as a whole saw 108,068 new companies in 2026, so this industry takes <0.1% of the inflow.

862022
582023
392024
362025
312026 so far

8 of this year's 31 are BV/SRL and NV/SA.

The biggest newcomers of 2026

The year is the register entry; an established firm that changes legal form appears as new.

1Bruxelles2 staff
2Ixelles2 staff
3Verviers2 staff
4Cerfontaine2 staff
5Erpe2 staff

The oldest firms in Belgium

Our data holds 0 Belgian breweries from before 1900, 13 from before 1950 and 54 from before 1990.

1922
1. Westmalle
1923
1. Rochefort
1923
1. Mechelen
1923
1. Mechelen
1929
1. Zulte
1929
1. Zulte

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Belgian breweries date from before 1990

were entered in 1990

How reachable are they?

Breweries are easier to reach than the average Belgian company: 45% list a phone number and 54% a website.

Email435 48%
Phone406 45%
Website489 54%

Grey line: all Belgian companies (email 23%, phone 43%, website 27%).

The full list with these fields is in our Belgian company database.

Frequently asked questions

How many breweries are there in Belgium?

There are 907 breweries in Belgium in our data, counted on 5 November 2026. That is one in every 2,633 Belgian companies.

Which is the largest brewery in Belgium?

InBev Belgium in Anderlecht, with 2,765 staff.

Which Belgian city has the most breweries?

Antwerpen, with 21, ahead of Liège (16), Gent (15), Bruxelles (13) and Brugge (12).

How many breweries are there in Antwerpen?

21, which is <0.1% of all 108,393 Antwerpen companies and 49% below the national share.

How big is a typical brewery?

Small. 80% of the 818 firms with a known headcount have one to four people; 20 have 50 or more. Most turn over under $100,000 a year.

Are Belgian breweries sole traders or companies?

One in four (207) are sole traders, 7% are partnerships and 43% (386) are BV/SRL and NV/SA.

How many breweries started in 2026?

31 were entered in the Belgian register so far in 2026, after 36 in 2025. 8 of them are BV/SRL and NV/SA.

What is the oldest brewery in Belgium?

Abdij Der Trappisten Van Westmalle in Westmalle, 1922, followed by Abbaye Notre Dame De Saint-Remy in Rochefort (1923) and Affligem Brouwerij in Mechelen (1923). 0 firms date from before 1900.

Which industry code covers breweries?

Belgian breweries are classified under NACE-BEL 2008 code 1105, identical to NACE Rev. 2 code 1105. Our platform filters them on NACE-BEL 2008 1105.

Can I download the full list?

Yes. All 907 firms with address, phone, email, legal form, employees, revenue and founding year, as Excel, CSV or through the API.

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