Brewery ‘Liefmans’ definitively bankrupt
It’s a sad day for beer lovers: the Belgian beer landscape just got a little poorer as the Liefmans brewery ceases to exist. When judges declared the company bankrupt in december brewery Liefmans went to a higher court, but unfortunately they couldn’t convince the court of their plan to save the brewery.
It’s a strange story, because the brewery can’t keep up with the orders since many of their beers won international rewards in the last years. Maybe they accumulated debts because of the Canadian beers they imported or because the older equipment didn’t let them produce efficient enough.
Meanwhile the competing brewery Duvel-Moortgat took over the production and the brewing secrets of these top beers. Uncertainty now rules over the future of high quality beers like Lucifer, Glühkriek, the Fruitesse fruit beers, Vondel, Goudenband (described as best brown ale by Michael Jackson), Kriek Kiefmans and Frambozen Liefmans, among others.
Fortunately it seems like Inbev won’t get these precious gems of beer heritage.
The official Liefmans brewery website
