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💡 The Short Version: The beer places named by the most of the publishers counted are Delirium Café (23), Cantillon (19), Moeder Lambic (16), À la Mort Subite (11) and Brussels Beer Project (10). Delirium Café holds the Guinness World Record for 2,004 beers; À la Mort Subite is shut on Sundays; Poechenellekelder is shut on Mondays. Cantillon is the working family brewery for gueuze, in Anderlecht. Belgian Beer World is €25 at the door and €21.50 online. The Belgian Beer Weekend is 3 to 5 September 2027. Prices are in euros. Or book a tasting: the guided beer tastingad is from €41 for 2.5 hours (GetYourGuide).
📊 The evidence behind this guide. Nothing here is ranked on one visit. This pass read 524 list pages from 2022 on and counts the publishers that name each beer bar or brewery: newspapers, magazines, guidebooks, broadcasters and travel writers, in English, French and Dutch. Brussels-only guide sites without a named newsroom, tour operators, directories and the venues’ own sites are not counted. Counts are publishers, not pages. How the guides are made
⚠️ Check the day. À la Mort Subite is closed on Sundays and Poechenellekelder on Mondays. Cantillon is a working brewery, so its visiting days are on its own site.
The places named by the most sources
The count is the number of publishers that name the place on a list of Brussels beer bars and breweries, with the split between English and French publishers. The total includes any Dutch-language publishers.
| Place | Kind | Sources | English | French |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delirium Café | Bar | 23 | 18 | 4 |
| Cantillon | Brewery and museum | 19 | 14 | 4 |
| Moeder Lambic | Bar, two addresses | 16 | 12 | 3 |
| À la Mort Subite | Café | 11 | 9 | 1 |
| Brussels Beer Project | Brewery and taprooms | 10 | 6 | 2 |
| Brasserie de la Senne | Brewery and bar | 9 | 6 | 2 |
| Nüetnigenough | Restaurant and bar | 9 | 5 | 3 |
| Belgian Beer World | Museum and rooftop bar | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Poechenellekelder | Café | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| The Beerlab | Rooftop bar | 6 | 6 | 0 |
The bars
Delirium Café
Off Rue des Bouchers · Cited by 23 sources (18 English, 4 French, 1 Dutch) · deliriumvillage.com
The blue front of Delirium Café, with pink elephant signs. Photo: Jamie Lantzy, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.
Delirium Café holds the Guinness World Record for the most beers available for tasting, 2,004, obtained in 2004, and its own site says you can choose from more than 2,000, among them Trappists, abbey beers, fruit beers and gluten-free beers. Visit.brussels puts it in a street at right angles to Rue des Bouchers, with terraces that are lively in summer.
Moeder Lambic
Rue de Savoie 68, Saint-Gilles, and Place Fontainas 8 · Cited by 16 sources (12 English, 3 French, 1 Dutch)
Two bars with one name: the original in Saint-Gilles, open since 2006, and the Fontainas branch in the centre, since 2009. Visit.brussels quotes the owner’s line, beautiful beers to beautiful people, with pride. Fontainas is the one in the centre; Saint-Gilles is the district of the Art Nouveau streets. See Brussels Art Nouveau.
À la Mort Subite
Rue Montagne aux Herbes Potagères 7 · Monday to Saturday 11:00 to 00:00, closed Sunday · Cited by 11 sources (9 English, 1 French, 1 Dutch) · alamortsubite.com
The front of À la Mort Subite, on Rue Montagne aux Herbes Potagères. Photo: Patrick Despoix, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of the oldest cafés in the capital, opposite the entrance to the Royal Galleries of Saint-Hubert. Jacques Brel was a regular. The drinks list has gueuzes and beers from Belgium and elsewhere, and the food is local cheeses and charcuterie, sandwiches and, visit.brussels says, cottage cheese or brawn. It takes cash, cards and Payconiq.
Poechenellekelder
Rue du Chêne 5 · Tuesday to Thursday and Sunday 11:00 to 01:00, Friday and Saturday to 02:00, closed Monday · Cited by 7 sources (5 English, 1 French, 1 Dutch)
An estaminet, a Brussels-style tavern, open since 1991 and opposite the Manneken Pis, with puppets hung everywhere and posters and objects bearing the statue’s effigy. It is a stop on the way back from the Manneken Pis, and it takes table bookings online.
Nüetnigenough
In the centre · Cited by 9 sources (5 English, 3 French, 1 Dutch)
A brewery restaurant whose name means never enough in the Brussels dialect, with a menu of about 50 beers and dishes such as Liège-style meatballs, stoemp, mashed potato and vegetables, and Flemish stew.
Other bars the tourist board names
La Porte Noire has 120 Belgian beers, 12 of them on tap, in the vaulted kitchens of an Alexian convent. L’Amère à Boire has more than 150 beers from small breweries. Gist is a craft-beer bar on a square close to the Grand-Place and the Manneken Pis. Mazette, a cooperative bar and brewery in the Marolles opened in 2022, brews about a dozen of its own beers on site. Python, in upper Schaerbeek, sells beers to take away.
Cantillon
Rue Gheude 56, Anderlecht · Cited by 19 sources (14 English, 4 French, 1 Dutch) · cantillon.be
Barrels of lambic maturing at Cantillon. Photo: Ekrem Canli, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
A family brewery founded in 1900 by the Van Roy-Cantillon family and still brewing in the traditional way: the micro-organisms of the Brussels air ferment the wort spontaneously, and the beer then goes into barrels to become lambic, then gueuze. Visit.brussels lists it as the museum of the gueuze, with barrels that are more than 100 years old, and says you can taste on site. The brewery’s own site has the visiting days.
The breweries
Visit.brussels says Brussels has a dozen or so young breweries, mostly along the canal and in Tour & Taxis, Saint-Gilles and Anderlecht.
Brussels Beer Project
Rue Antoine Dansaert 188 · Cited by 10 sources (6 English, 2 French, 2 Dutch) · beerproject.be
The Dansaert taproom, with a beer shop and a lambic barrel cellar, has 24 beers on tap. The brewery tour, with a talk on beer styles and a tasting of six beers, takes 2 hours and is €25 or €32 a person, on Thursdays and Saturdays at 19:30 and on Saturdays also at 17:00. There are taprooms on Rue du Bailli and at BBP Port Sud, which visit.brussels calls Belgium’s largest beer garden.
Brasserie de la Senne
Cited by 9 sources (6 English, 2 French, 1 Dutch) · brasseriedelasenne.be
The brewery behind Taras Boulba, Zinnebir and Zenne Pils, which visit.brussels says all have a deep, floral bitterness. Its bar, the Zennebar, is open Tuesday to Friday 16:00 to 23:00, Saturday 12:00 to 23:00 and Sunday 12:00 to 21:30, and its shop Tuesday to Friday 12:00 to 18:00 and Saturday 11:00 to 19:00.
Belgian Beer World
Boulevard Anspach 80, in the old Stock Exchange · Monday to Thursday and Sunday 10:30 to 19:30, Friday and Saturday to 20:30 · Cited by 7 sources (7 English)
A beer museum with the BeerLab, a rooftop bar with 150 beers, a third of them on tap, and a 360-degree view over the historic centre. The ticket is €25 at the door and €21.50 online, with a free drink, and GetYourGuide’s ticketad is from €22. A combined ticket with the Atomium and the Design Museum includes a collector’s beer glass, collected at Belgian Beer World within 48 hours of the Atomium visit: see the Atomium.
Beer tastings and tours
GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices are per person.
| Tour | Length | From | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgian Beer Tasting, 4 Samplesad | 2.5 hours | €41 | Run by SANDEMANs; a Trappist and three other beers at two bars, with an optional stop at Delirium Café; 975 reviews at 4.7 stars |
| Beer Experience: Fast and Fun Divead | 75 minutes | €28 | Five beer tastings with a guide; 232 reviews at 4.6 stars |
| Marc’s Brussels Beer Tasting Tourad | 4 hours | €85 | Six Belgian beers, entry to the beer museum and three chocolate tastings; 398 reviews at 4.7 stars |
| Hungry Mary’s Beer, Chocolate and Sights Tourad | 4.5 hours | €99 | A walk of the centre with chocolate and beer tastings, cheese and fries; 308 reviews at 4.9 stars |
Brussels food tours compares the walks that mix beer with food.
Beer festivals
The Belgian Beer Weekend, the 27th edition, runs from Friday 3 to Sunday 5 September 2027 on the Grand-Place, according to the organiser. The Toer de Geuze, when the gueuze breweries open to visitors, is biennial and falls in 2028, not 2027. See the best time to visit Brussels.
Plan the rest
Brussels waffles and chocolate shops cover the other two, Brussels frites says where to queue, and where to eat in Brussels lists the restaurants. 3 days in Brussels fits an evening of beer to the sights.
Common questions
Which Brussels beer bars do the most lists name?
Delirium Café, named by 23 of the publishers counted, then Cantillon with 19, Moeder Lambic with 16, À la Mort Subite with 11 and Brussels Beer Project with 10.
How many beers does Delirium Café have?
More than 2,000, according to its own site. It holds the Guinness World Record for the most beers available for tasting, 2,004, obtained in 2004.
What is gueuze?
A beer made by blending lambic, which is fermented spontaneously by the micro-organisms of the Brussels air, then put into barrels. Cantillon, a family brewery in Anderlecht founded in 1900, still brews it in the traditional way, and visit.brussels calls its gueuzes and lambics legends.
When is À la Mort Subite open?
Monday to Saturday from 11:00 to midnight, and closed on Sundays, according to its own site. It sits opposite the entrance to the Royal Galleries of Saint-Hubert, takes cash and cards, and serves cheeses and charcuterie with the beer.
Is there a beer festival in Brussels in 2027?
The Belgian Beer Weekend runs from Friday 3 to Sunday 5 September 2027 on the Grand-Place. There is no Toer de Geuze in 2027: the open days at the gueuze breweries are biennial and the next is in 2028.
How much is a beer tasting in Brussels?
On GetYourGuide, a 75-minute tasting is from €28, a 2.5-hour tasting at two bars from €41, a 4-hour tour with beer, chocolate and the beer museum from €85, and Hungry Mary's 4.5-hour beer and chocolate tour from €99.
