Brasserie d'Achouffe

The Brasserie d'Achouffe is a Belgian brewery based in Achouffe. It was founded in 1982 by two brothers-in-law, Pierre Gobron and Christian Bauweraerts, as a hobby. In 1984, Gobron decided to quit his job and to concentrate on his brewery, joined four years later by Bauweraerts. That year (1988), they began to export the beer to Quebec. In September 2006, the brewery was bought by the brewery group Duvel Moortgat. The beers have a dwarf on their label. Chris Bauweraerts had the idea of this logo while watching a television show where a painting, representing a dwarf, was sold to raise money for victims of a local storm. He spoke about it the day after with Pierre Gobron, who said he agreed with the idea. Pierre asked a colleague's...