BRUT.
Roos, Sander, and Wout — founders of BRUT.

Our Story

Three friends.
One garage.
Zero experience.

Started by Roos, Sander, and Wout in a garage in Ghent. Background in design and hospitality, zero experience in brewing. They wanted a drink that fits their life — clean, no sugar, no bullshit.

Belgium has great beer culture, but they saw a gap: no one was making cider that looked and tasted like it belongs in 2026. They source apples from small Flemish orchards, ferment everything dry, and keep the ingredient list embarrassingly short.

2023

The garage

First batch brewed in a rented garage in Ghent. Three friends, one press, no clue what they were doing. The cider was dry. Everything else was chaos.


2024

First bars

Local bars and festivals across Ghent. People started asking for 'the dry one.' We took that as a compliment.


2025

Four ciders

Launched Haze, Cassis, and Ginger alongside Original. Expanded across Belgium. Still no sugar. Still no shortcuts.


2026

Beyond Belgium

Benelux-wide distribution. Launching into Germany and France. Same four ingredients. Bigger map.

What we believe

Not a manifesto. Just how we work.

Dry or nothing

We ferment everything completely. Zero residual sugar. If you want sweet, we're not your brand. And that's fine.

Four ingredients

Apples, water, yeast, and whatever post-fermentation addition defines each variant. That's the list. We could make it shorter, but then we'd have apple juice.

Design matters

The branding is as minimal as the product. No craft-beverage clichés. No burlap. No hand-drawn anything. We look the way we taste — stripped back.

Local first

Flemish apples from small orchards. The kind Google Maps doesn't know about. We source local because local is better, not because it's a marketing angle.