Brasserie Dubuisson Alcohol-Free Beers

Brasserie Dubuisson is a family brewery in Pipaix, Belgium, founded in 1769, it says, and the maker of Bush and Cuvée des Trolls. Its one alcohol-free beer, Lowa Trolls, is a 0.3% blonde made with a specific yeast and a slow fermentation, the brewer says.

Who are Dubuisson?

Dubuisson dates itself to 1769, when Joseph Leroy founded the brewery, and calls itself “the oldest brewery in Wallonia”. It gives its address as Pipaix, which is in the municipality of Leuze-en-Hainaut, and says it has seen nine generations of brewers, “all belonging in direct line to the same family”.

It says it is “still a 100% independent brewery”. The Belgian company register lists as its directors two companies, represented by Hugues Dubuisson and Alexandre Dubuisson, and Séverine Dubuisson. The register doesn’t publish shareholdings, but we found no drinks group involved, so we list it as independent. In 2007 Dubuisson created the Belgian Family Brewers label, which “unites family breweries”, it says. Besides brewing, the register lists cafés, bars and restaurants among the company’s activities.

What Dubuisson brews

Alfred Dubuisson created Bush in 1933; the brewery calls it “BUSH BEER, the English translation of BIERE DUBUISSON”. Cuvée des Trolls followed in 2000 and “became a success in Belgium and beyond”, it says, and Rasta Trolls is also in the Trolls range. After an investment in 2013 the brewery could produce “more than 100,000 hectolitres a year”. Its beer list has 12 beers, and Lowa Trolls is the only alcohol-free one.

Dubuisson’s alcohol-free beer

Lowa Trolls was “Created in 2025”, Dubuisson says, joining Cuvée des Trolls and Rasta Trolls; L’Avenir reported that it was unveiled in March 2025. The brewer says the yeast and the fermentation keep it at 0.3%: “The use of a specific yeast combined with a so-called ‘slow’ fermentation places this beer in the ‘alcohol-free’ category with an alcohol content of 0.3%”. It says it’s made “respecting the traditional brewing process”; it doesn’t describe taking any alcohol out. Dubuisson adds that Belgian law allows the name alcohol-free below 0.5%.

It’s a filtered blonde, brewed from a blend of malts, hops including Motueka added during the boil, sugar, water and the specific yeast, Dubuisson says; the same page says it’s made “without compensating with sugar or sweeteners”, so the two don’t quite agree. The brewer describes a bright blonde with a creamy, sparkling white head, a hoppy character with floral notes, citrus and zest, and “a lingering bitterness” with a slight sweetness and well-balanced acidity. It gives the bitterness as 30, without a unit. It doesn’t explain the name Lowa, or publish calories. The beer site beertasting.com lists it as an alcohol-free IPA; the brewer calls it a blonde.

In November 2025 Dubuisson launched a limited edition of Lowa Trolls in 75cl bottles, and L’Avenir said it was the first brewery in Belgium to offer an alcohol-free beer in that format. The same report said Lowa Trolls had won gold at the World Beer Awards 2025, in the Belgium – No & Low Alcohol category; we couldn’t check it on the World Beer Awards’ own site, and Dubuisson’s product page lists no awards.

How Lowa Trolls compares

Alcohol-free Belgian blondes in our directory. Calories as published; checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

The Dubuisson beer in our directory

Checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Dubuisson

On 31 October 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had Lowa Trolls at £20.08 for six, or single bottles at £3.51, and Dry Drinker six for £20.08; those are affiliate links. Wise Bartender doesn’t list it. In Belgium, Dubuisson’s own webshop lists packs of six 33cl bottles at €15.30 and twelve at €30.60, and six of the limited 75cl edition at €33.00; it doesn’t show stock. For more, see our guide to the best Belgian alcohol-free beer.

Facts checked against Dubuisson’s own website and webshop, the Belgian company register (KBO), L’Avenir, beertasting.com, The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker, 31 October 2026.