According
to local old registers, the Pourbaix family were operating a brewery
at Faubourg Saint-Paul in 1847.
In 1871, the brewery was taken over by Jules Paternotte,
the son of a brewmaster located at Buvrinnes. When he died on the 8th
of July 1911, his two sons took on the brewing business until 1928.
The plant was purchased in 1929 in a public auction
by Oscar Roulez, a malt producer who had the old brewery torn down and
today’s plant erected.
In 1935, the malting plant is taken over once again
and renamed Malterie des ramparts (literally the ramparts’ malting
plant). It will remain operational until the beginning of World War
II.
In 1989, André Graux builds a new brewery -
La Brasserie La Binchoise – inside the old malting plant.
In 1994, La Binchoise brewery acquires ownership of
the premises and the site of the old malting plant is restored.
