Brasserie Surréaliste Alcohol-Free Beers
One Brasserie Surréaliste beer in our directory: Abstinence Absolue, an alcohol-free rye IPA below 0.5%.
Brasserie Surréaliste is a Brussels brewery and restaurant, set up by two brothers, with a brewpub in a former banana warehouse dating from 1932. Its one alcohol-free beer, Abstinence Absolue, is a rye IPA below 0.5%; the brewer doesn’t say where it’s brewed.
- Brewery: Brasserie Surréaliste, Place du Nouveau Marché aux Grains 23, Brussels
- Founders: The brothers Charles and Édouard Grison
- Owner: Founded by the brothers; we couldn’t confirm its owners in a register, so no Independent badge
- Brewing: A brewpub in Brussels, and contract brewing, Beer52’s Ferment reported
- Alcohol-free: Abstinence Absolue, a rye IPA below 0.5%
- Where to buy: The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker
Who are Brasserie Surréaliste?
The brothers Charles and Édouard Grison founded Brasserie Surréaliste, Bruxelles Secrète and Beer52 report. Édouard began homebrewing in 2015, and about four years later, when the brothers settled their plans for a brewpub, “Brasserie Surréaliste began contract brewing”, Beer52’s Ferment magazine reported in 2024; the brewpub’s permit took until 2021. Its crowdfunding campaign on KissKissBankBank ended on 8 June 2020, raising €44,089 against a €20,000 target.
The brewpub
It brews at Place du Nouveau Marché aux Grains 23, in Brussels, in “a former banana warehouse dating back to 1932”, Bruxelles Secrète said in 2026: the former Atelier Coppens, an Art Deco building of more than 1,500 square metres, according to the crowdfunding page, which lists 1,000-litre and 2,000-litre tanks and a semi-automatic canning line. “They brew the beers down in the basement”, the Brussels Times reported in 2023. Its website bills it as “Restaurant & Craft Beer”.
What Brasserie Surréaliste brews
Its beers on sale at the Belgian shop Bières Gourmet include Dream IPA, Opera Fantastico, a West Coast IPA, Double Trouble and Venus Effect, a gose.
Who owns Brasserie Surréaliste?
We found no owner other than the founding brothers, but we couldn’t find the company’s legal name or check it in the Belgian company register: its shop terms name only “Brasserie Surréaliste”, governed by the laws of Belgium. So we don’t show an Independent badge until that’s confirmed.
Brasserie Surréaliste’s alcohol-free beer
Abstinence Absolue is its only alcohol-free beer: a “Non Alcoholic IPA”, below 0.5%, brewed with rye and hopped with Citra, Nelson and Amarillo, with tasting notes of “exotic fruits & citrus, refreshing”, the brewer says, and “A juicy pleasure that does not require confession.” The Belgian shop Bières Gourmet gives 0.5% and adds Mosaic to the hops.
The brewer doesn’t say how it’s made, or where. The company has its own brewhouse, but it has also used contract brewing, so we don’t say where this beer is brewed. Nobody publishes its calories or a full ingredient list, and we found no awards for it.
How Abstinence Absolue compares
Alcohol-free IPAs in our directory. Calories as published; checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
The Brasserie Surréaliste beer in our directory
Checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
Where to buy Brasserie Surréaliste
On 31 October 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had Abstinence Absolue at £21.68 for six cans, or £3.79 a can, and Dry Drinker at £21.68 for six (affiliate links); both had sold out of their cases of 12 and 24. In Belgium, the brewer’s own online shop sells it in packs of 6, 12 and 24.
Facts checked against Brasserie Surréaliste’s own website and shop, Beer52’s Ferment, Bruxelles Secrète, the Brussels Times, KissKissBankBank, Bières Gourmet, The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker, 31 October 2026.
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