Brewery Bourgogne des Flandres

This guide to Brewery Bourgogne des Flandres in Bruges opens in 1957, when the Van Houtryve family, brewers on Wollestraat since 1765, let their kettle go cold as cheap postwar pilsner undercut their red-brown ale. Rather than let the recipe die, they sold it, and the beer became an orphaned brand, brewed under contract first at one brewery, then at another near Brussels. A Guinness importer named John Martin, who had built his own fortune moving other people's beer, is the man who eventually bought that second brewery outright.