Gageleer cvba

Name: Gageleer cvba
Address: 55 Heerestraat, Oud-Turnhout, Antwerp, 2360, Belgium
Telephone: +32 497 44 71 05

Unclaimed

Place Category: BreweriesPlace Tags: Beer

Around 1980, a desire for a beer brewed `to medieval tastes´ led us to the Cruydeboeck (“Book of Herbs”) by Belgian botanist and physician Rembert Dodoens (Mechelen, 1517 – 1585). The road to actually realizing this desire was long, but following a detour through a (then) small Walloon brewery in 1988 we arrived at our first “garage beer” in Beerse (province of Antwerp).
On 23 November 1996, the newly-founded “Proef” brewery in Lochristi bottled the first 1,000 liters of Gageleer, brewed from the same recipe as the original “garage beer” on behalf of De Wielewaal, then a nature conservation society in Turnhout (province of Antwerp).
In 1997, five members of De Wielewaal nature society raised the capital to found a co-operative, with the goal of marketing a beer to fund the purchase and conservation of nature reserves in the Campine.
The company went organic in 2003. Gageleer has been a certified organic beer since 29 August 2003.
2012 saw the original co-operative transformed into a co-operative company with a social objective, and Gageleer cvba became Gageleer cvba-so.