Gueuze blendery Parrain, Beersel

Geuzestekerij Parrain is owned by Thomas and Julie Debelder. The Debelder family is a household name in the beer world. Grandfather Gaston took over the café and the gueuze stekerij from Jean-Baptiste Vanderlinden in 1953, who was then mayor of Beersel. The name changed to blendery 3 Fonteinen and Gaston transformed the café into a restaurant . His sons Armand and Guido took over the restaurant at the end of the 1980s. In the 1990s, Armand Debelder started brewing lambic beers and blending gueuze. He became an icon in the lambic world. In the meantime, Guido continued to run the restaurant.

In 2022, Thomas and Julie Debelder decided to follow in the footsteps of their father Guido, uncle Armand and grandfather Gaston Debelder and started blending gueuze again in the cellar of restaurant 3 Fonteinen. To avoid confusion with the current brewery of the same name, they also deliberately gave their company a different name. ‘Parrain’ is a tribute to grandfather Gaston and their uncle Armand.

The first Oude Geuze Parrain was made with wort from the Boon and Den Herberg breweries. From 2024, wort will also be purchased from other lambic breweries. In November 2024, this gueuze won a bronze medal at the Brussels Beer Challenge. At that time, there were again around 8,000 litres of lambic beer maturing in the cellar of the restaurant.