Brasserie Bavery
THE ABANDONED BREWERY IN BELGIUM
The ‘Brasserie Bavery’ or ‘BAF’ brewery started producing beer in 1940. The brewery was located in Couillet a section of the Belgian town of Charleroi within the Walloon Region in the Province of Hainaut. The brewery was founded by Albert-Françios Bavery in 1940. It closed in 1979, but some signature beers continued to be brewed into the 1990s by brewer De Smedt.
Charles Van Nueten, an architect from Brussels, designed this building. The buildings were owned by brewer Albert-François Bavery, hence the brand name BAF. The brewery offered a wide range of products, for example BAF and Super Bavery were originally brewed at Couillet. The production of Abbaye d’Aulne, originally brewed in Brasserie de Dinant, was taken over in 1977.
The beers were brewed until 1979 when the brewery was forced to close due to the crisis.
Eventually, the production of the BAF and Abbaye d’Aulne beer was taken over by the De Smedt brewery in Opwijk. They brewed BAF until the 1990s. Since 2000 Abbaye d’Aulne is brewed in Brasserie du Val de Sambre, located near the ruins of the Aulne abbey in Gozée. Today, De Smedt is still active under the name Affligem.
I visited ‘Brasserie BAF’ in 2009. Today the building is an airsoft location. Follow this link for more abandoned breweries in Europe.
