European Breweries History: Hoegaarden Brewery
Pierre Celis is a native Belgian brewer, who revived the
white (Blanche) style in Belgium years ago with the Hoegaarden brewery.
The Belgian White style is a very distinctive wheat beer, usually
cloudy and spiced, giving it the refreshing quality of a traditional
wheat yet the flavourfulness of any good brew. When Celis' Hoegaarden
brewery was bought by Interbrew, he left Belgium for Austin,
Texas, to start a new brewery, naming it after himself. He used his
skill in white beer brewing to create a new Celis White, one of the
U.S.'s first and most respected blanches. Celis, however, has a
tendency of selling out and his brewery is now owned by Miller.
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