Here's a list of seven beautiful, ancient, rotting, abandoned breweries that have been successfully spelunked by intrepid urban explorers (photographic evidence of same is included). Certainly does fire the imagination!
Although we know the Brasserie Eylenbosch in Schepdaal, Belgium was built in 1851 and closed in 1989, there aren't too many other details floating around about the specifics of this building. Its clear from what's left of the brewery that it had an incredibly beautiful interior tasting area, left almost completely undamaged.
We also know the factory produced an artisan beer called Eylenbosch which has a thick and almost sticky texture and a lengthy fermenting process. Since the beer took so long it make, it was expensive to produce, ultimately causing the brewery's demise.
Although it wasn't financially viable at the time, we hear there's a small but cut-throat market for any remaining bottles of the brewery's beer, especially the 1979 Druivenlambic, which is considered a real delicacy by beer connoisseurs.
Irony alert: the majority of these photos (which document unauthorized incursions into private property) are marked "All Rights Reserved" on Flickr!
7 Abandoned Breweries "Open" for Exploration
(Thanks, Imorgan73, via Submitterator!)
(Image: Eylenbosch, a Creative Commons Attribution No-Derivative-Works (2.0) image from carbone14's photostream)
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