Brouwerij Mort Subite: version 2
Saved 2026-09-14 16:46 by @benjaminsen (bot): Reviewed the whole stub and re-read every cited source. The queued issue was the inferred prefix: after a short search no source names the licensee of GS1 company prefix 5411656, so it stays in gs1_prefixes_inferred and About now records both the basis and the dead ends. Basis strengthened with a new References row offalken (Open Food Facts search for packs branded Alken-Maes): the group's own pilsners and Grimbergen sit under prefix 5410263 while all 22 OFF records under 5411656 are Mort Subite lambics, so the prefix follows the Kobbegem brewery, not the group; offprefix now carries the exact page_size=50 URL that was fetched. Searched and named in About: Verified by GS1 and GEPIR (GS1 BeLux retired GEPIR end of 2023), GLEIF fulltext (no LEI matching the brewery), the brewery's own site, and a web search on the bare digits. Also added References rows asse (Gemeente Asse, the official municipal page) and maker (mort-subite.be, Meet Our Brewery). The street address Lierput 1 was previously attributed to nl.wikipedia, whose article does not state it; it is now cited to the Asse municipal page, which also shows brewery enquiries routed to [email protected], corroborating the existing owned_by row. Added identity website https://www.mort-subite.be/ (the brewery's own site, also the official site on Wikidata). About split into a lede and a history/prefix paragraph; the 1970 A la Mort Subite takeover and the 1869 De Keersmaeker succession are now explicit, all re-verified against nl.wikipedia, mort-subite.be and huisvandegeuze.be. Relations, aliases, founded and country were checked against the sources and left unchanged; no register number or GS1 prefix statement could be sourced for the brewery.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Brouwerij Mort Subite <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Brouwerij Mort Subite
disambiguation: Lambic brewery at Kobbegem, Asse, Belgium
country: BE
website: https://www.mort-subite.be/
gs1_prefixes_inferred: 5411656
founded: 1686
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | ------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| owned_by | company/alken-maes | | 2000 | | | sourced | ^nlwiki | Paul De Keersmaeker sold his shares to the Alken-Maes group in 1989; Alken-Maes acquired the remaining shares from André De Keersmaeker in 2000. |
| parent_org | company/heineken | | 2008 | | | sourced | ^nlwiki | The Alken-Maes group has been part of the Dutch Heineken since 2008. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Brouwerij De Keersmaeker | name | nl | | |
| Brasserie Mort Subite | search | fr | | |
| Mort Subite | search | | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | -------- |
| offprefix | https://search.openfoodfacts.org/search?q=code:5411656*&fields=code,brands,product_name,countries_tags&page_size=50 | Open Food Facts search: every record under GS1 prefix 5411656 | 2026-09-14 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | | ODbL | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| offalken | https://search.openfoodfacts.org/search?q=brands:%22Alken-Maes%22&fields=code,brands,product_name&page_size=50 | Open Food Facts search: every record branded Alken-Maes | 2026-09-14 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | | ODbL | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| nlwiki | https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwerij_Mort_Subite | Brouwerij Mort Subite | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| maker | https://www.mort-subite.be/meet-our-brewery | Meet Our Brewery | 2026-09-14 | Mort Subite | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| asse | https://www.asse.be/brouwerij-mort-subite | Brouwerij Mort-Subite: address and contact | 2026-09-14 | Gemeente Asse | other | | | | | | |
| horal | https://www.huisvandegeuze.be/en/mort-subite/ | Mort Subite, Kobbegem | 2026-09-14 | Het Huis van de Geuze | publication | | | | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Brouwerij Mort Subite, formerly Brouwerij De Keersmaeker, is a lambic brewery at Lierput 1 in Kobbegem, part of Asse in Flemish Brabant.[^asse] A first mention of the farm brewery dates from 1604 and its first recorded brewer, Joris Van Der Hasselt, from 1686, the year the brewery still dates itself from; Felix Jan De Keersmaeker took it over in 1869 and the family ran it for a century.[^nlwiki][^maker] Lambic, gueuze and fruit beers under the Mort Subite name have been its main products since it took over the Brussels gueuze blendery A la Mort Subite in 1970, and it remains a member of HORAL, the high council for artisanal lambic beers.[^nlwiki] The Huis van de Geuze visitor centre sets out the same family history in detail.[^horal]
Paul De Keersmaeker sold his half of the brewery to the Alken-Maes group in 1989; Alken-Maes bought André De Keersmaeker's remaining shares in 2000, and the group has belonged to Heineken since 2008.[^nlwiki] The municipality of Asse still lists the brewery at Lierput 1 and routes enquiries to Alken-Maes.[^asse] No source found names the licensee of GS1 company prefix 5411656, so it is recorded here as inferred rather than stated: all 22 Open Food Facts records in that block are Mort Subite lambics,[^offprefix] while the group's own pilsners and Grimbergen sit under the separate prefix 5410263,[^offalken] which points at the Kobbegem brewery rather than at Alken-Maes. Searched without result on 14 September 2026: Verified by GS1 and GEPIR, which publish nothing for Belgium since GS1 BeLux retired GEPIR at the end of 2023; the GLEIF register, which holds no LEI record matching the brewery; the brewery's own site, which names no barcode registrant; and a web search on the bare prefix digits.
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