Brasserie des Légendes

Commercial Brewery in Irchonwelz, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: La Brasserie Ellezelloise

Established in 1993

Contact
Rue du Castel 19, Irchonwelz, 7801, Belgium
Subsidiaries
Brasserie des Légendes owns 1 brewery:
Description
La Brasserie des Géants a été créée en 1997 par deux ingénieurs, Pierre et Vinciane Delcoigne, au Castel d’Irchonwelz, datant du douzième siècle. Le premier brassin a été mis en vente en 2000.

La Brasserie Ellezelloise a été fondée par Philippe Gérard en 1993 et produit la gamme Quitine et Hercule. La salle de brassage y permet deux à trois brassins de 15 hl par jour.

Née du mariage en 2006 de la Brasserie des Géants et de la Brasserie Ellezelloise, la Brasserie des Légendes s’inspire du folklore riche de nos régions: la Ducasse d’Ath avec son cortège des Géants et le Sabbat des Sorcières d’Ellezelles.

Puis en 2019, la Brasserie des Légendes reprend les activités de la Distillerie de Biercée.

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6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Small, if very stable snowwhite head over clear copperish metallic golden beer. Rather neutral nose, white candi sugar, alcohol, boozy aroma. Sweet-ish, boozy, alcohol, white candi sugar, whitebread, caramel, slightly scorched sugar, rum, sultanas. "Hot" malty, boozy with alcoholheat, but feeling empty. Rum is a dangerous to age beer in - and certainly lighter coloured beer. Hercule would have been a much better candidate for these barrels. Txs to Stef!
Tried from Bottle on 11 May 2026 at 08:43

7.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Bouteille 33cl, BB 01/2029, bottle# 5662/7908 achetée au Delhaize Enghien.
Belle surprise de trouver cette version au Delhaize.
Couleur léger pâle, col fin blanc-cassé crémeux.
Arôme sur un bouquet marqué des barriques - laissant ce côté vineux très espagnol - le tout ayant quand mâme une grosse base belge de cette triple qui ressort en dominance.

Palais sur un effet un peu vin fortifié. Le côté belge de la triple est dominant avec pas mal d'esters fruité mais repris en support par la mise en barrique - cela confère un fruité tirant sur les figues/dattes.
Correcte mais résultat mitigé où je m'attendais à un peu plus au niveau de la barrique qui reste en retrait par rapport à la bière de base.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Apr 2026 at 07:38

6.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 9 Overall 6
Cloudy pale gold with a small white head. Pale malt, stone fruits, spicy yeast, perfume esters, some hop. Medium dry. Light plus hop bitterness. OK.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Apr 2026 at 16:31

8.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 9 Overall 7.5
Cloudy deep brown to black with a perfect beige head. Toasted malt, Burnt bread. Belgian esters. Tiny fink traces. Chocolate. Grassy & spicy hop. Light sweet. Light to medium bitter. Interesting. Nice.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Apr 2026 at 19:36

8/10
Tried from Bottle on 19 Apr 2026 at 17:01

7.5/10
Tried from Bottle on 19 Apr 2026 at 16:56

4.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 5 Overall 5
Tried from Bottle on 06 Apr 2026 at 16:56

6.6/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6.5 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
33cl pour from a 75cl bottle in Œudeghien, Belgium following the Les Fous de VTT MTB event. Pours clear gold, good pure white head. Gentle sugary yeast sweetness on the nose. Medium to light bodied, quite a pleasant, clean blonde overall, perhaps a slight herbal hint to it, but overall, nicely refreshing.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2026 at 13:38

6.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Légendes coming up with a Pilsener, supporting that style claim with the use of Saaz hops and the absence of any added sugars - not enough to convince me that this is actually a Lager, but anyway. Vichy bottle bought at a shop in Bassilly. Medium thick, snow white, shred-lacing, uneven but firm and stable, slowly breaking head over an initially clear, warm golden blonde robe with apricot tinge, becoming more peachy and misty with sediment (so at least unfiltered). Aroma of soggy brown (!) bread, cooked pork (oddly), tomato soup from a can, grilled salsify, paprika-flavoured crisps, minerals, raw cereals. Sweetish onset, fairly clean in terms of esters but still some light banana, pear and peach elements here and there, moderately carbonated slick mouthfeel, minerally notes lingering under a smooth, thinnish, cereally pale maltiness - again somehow sweeter and a bit more 'moelleux' than I expect from an actual Pilsener. The peachy aspect of whatever limited fruitiness is present, somehow gets accentuated a bit by that effect, so that in the end, when a pinch of floral hops tries to add some drying bitterness and only limitedly succeeds, this still feels like a top-fermented Belgian blonde. I maintain that this is not a Pilsener at all but a cleaned up, 'stripped' and bare version of top-fermented blonde, like there are many around in Belgium these days, and I cannot help but feeling a little bit cheated every time I encounter one. Not a great success - but I have never been sincerely impressed or even pleasantly surprised by Géants anyway. Anything but legendary.
Tried on 08 Mar 2026 at 01:17

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Thanks Luigi for this beer from le Belge. Tasting it yesterday before to sleep, this time, I had more a dry stout, not sour, dry and mineral, roasty malt, coffee, bitter, medium body, aromatic, good job.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Feb 2026 at 15:14