Hoegaarden

Hoegaarden is a municipality inside the province of Flemish Brabant, in Flanders, one of the 3 areas of Belgium. The municipality accommodates the villages of Hoegaarden right, Meldert and Outgaarden. On January 1, 2006, Hoegaarden had a complete population of 6,225. The general region is 33.Ninety three square kilometres which gives a population density of 183 population consistent with km². The cutting-edge village became based in 981 by using the ultimate ruler of the county of Brunengeruz. Countess Alpaidis later gave her county and fortress to the Prince-Bishop of Liège.

As an enclave of the Liège prince bishopric the village had tax benefits over the villages in the surrounding Duchy of Brabant, main to the boom of the brewing enterprise. This tax benefit was lost after the French Revolution as soon as the Prince-Bishopric of Liege turned into abolished. The enterprise had withered to nothing with the aid of 1955, however Pierre Celis later re-released the metropolis's now iconic white beer which has given that long gone on to grow to be a international brand. In December 2005, it become determined to shut the Hoegaarden Brewery and pass the manufacturing of the beers to the Jupille brewery in southern Belgium. However, the beer couldn't be brewed there with the right characteristics, and so the plan became cancelled.