In 2019 Bokrijk launched its own beer, Wildeman.
Wildeman is a beer of the old Maasland type, brewed according to tradition, with part dark malt and part spelt malt. The beer gets its fine, wine-like aroma from the addition of a three-year-old Lambic (8%), aged in oak barrels, as was customary for the old stock beers.
The beer was conceived on behalf of Bokrijk and brewed by Frank Boon (of Brouwerij Boon). The name of the beer refers to a legend popular in the late middle ages about a knight called Valentine and a wild man called Ourson. The choice of the name is a nod to the 2019 Breughel year and the exhibition ‘The world of Breughel’, which runs in the Open Air Museum this year. The beer is only for sale in Bokrijk.