The former stables of the Château de Durbuy are not a backdrop. They are working walls, built to hold, shelter, and carry the passage of days.
The brewery has settled there without trying to erase what the building was before. One still feels the logic of the outbuildings: the nearness of the château, the stone, the measured openings, the direct relation to work.
I like the thought of an estate building changing use without losing its deeper function. The estate’s horses were once kept here. Today, fermentations, temperatures, and brews are watched with the same discreet regularity.
It is not the château itself that brews. It is one of its old rooms of practical life. For a brewery, that may be exactly the right setting.