Hildegard (Odette) Overmeire graduated as an industrial engineer with a specialization in brewery. After several years of teaching and other assignments for breweries, she started brewing her own beer under the name Urthel in 2000, together with her husband Bas van Ostaden. To this end, they founded the brewery De Leyerth in Ruiselede. Between 2007 and 2011, the Urthel beers were brewed in the De Koningshoeven brewery in Berkel-Enschot.

In February 2011, a microbrewery was bought and installed, so that from July 2011 there was no longer a brewery company called De Leyerth, but a microbrewery Urthel. The three base beers continued to be brewed at La Trappe and the microbrewery was used for experimenting with new beers.

In 2012 the Urthel brand was bought by Swinkels Family Brewers. The name "Brouwerij Urthel" has been discontinued, but Hildegard Overmeire kept on brewing beer for local consumption in her food and brew house '''De Hoppeschuur'' in her microbrewery. In 2014 De Hoppeschuur had to move to a new venue in Knesselare, De Hoppeschuur continued its activities there till it was closed in 2019.

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