Lupulus Alcohol-Free Beers

Lupulus is a family brewery at Courtil, near Gouvy in the Belgian Ardennes, founded in 2003 as Les 3 Fourquets. Its alcohol-free Placebo is labelled 0,0% and made with a recipe that “avoids dealcoholization”, it says; the UK shops list it at 0.4%.

Who are Lupulus?

“The brewery ‘Les 3 Fourquets’ was born in 2003”, Lupulus says, founded by “Pierre Gobron, accompanied by his sons, Julien and Tim”. Its Lupulus beer followed in 2007, to be served “in champagne bottles as well as in kegs”, and in 2016 the brewery itself took the Lupulus name. RTBF reported in 2021 that Pierre Gobron had created La Chouffe forty years earlier, before creating Lupulus in 2007.

It calls itself “a Belgian family brewery located in Courtil (Gouvy)”, and says “Lupulus is the story of a family”. The Belgian company data we saw, on companyweb, shows no parent company, though it doesn’t list the shareholders, so we list it as independent.

Lupulus at Courtil

The brewery is in an 18th-century Ardennes farm, Visit Wallonia says, and Lupulus also runs a Resto Bar, a Cheese Factory and a brewery shop, its website says; its online shop was “under construction” when we checked. The company, Brasserie Lupulus SRL, a private limited company, is registered at Courtil, Gouvy, and has been active since March 2003.

How big is Lupulus?

It had 44 full-time equivalent staff in 2025, up from 37.1 in 2024, and a gross margin of €5,538,044 in 2025, the Belgian company data on companyweb shows. It doesn’t publish its turnover.

Lupulus’s alcohol-free beers

Placebo is labelled 0.0% and, Lupulus says, made with an innovative recipe that avoids dealcoholisation: so the alcohol isn’t taken out, though it doesn’t say what the recipe is. It’s brewed with Mosaic and Citra hops and lightly dry-hopped with Cryo Sabro, it says. The Alcohol Free Co, Dry Drinker and the Dutch shop Alcoholvrijbierhuis give 0.4%, and The Alcohol Free Co names Nectaron and Citra as the hops.

Its other alcohol-free beer, Bleuette 0,0%, comes in bottles (Lupulus lists a Bleuette can without a strength) and isn’t in our directory. It also makes canned soft drinks it calls Loumonades. We found no awards for its alcohol-free beers, and no launch date for Placebo.

How Placebo compares

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

The Lupulus beer in our directory

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

Where to buy Lupulus

On 31 October 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had Placebo at £19.02 for six, or £3.33 a bottle, and Dry Drinker at £19.02 for six (affiliate links); both had sold out of their cases of 12 and 24. In Belgium, Lupulus sells at its brewery shop. For more, see our guide to the best Belgian alcohol-free beer.

Facts checked against Lupulus’s own website, companyweb, RTBF, Visit Wallonia, Alcoholvrijbierhuis, The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker, 31 October 2026.