The history of our brewery goes all the way back to the first half of the nineteenth century. Jan Mathys Cornelissen had a brewery in Gerdingen a stone’s throw from Opitter. He was married to Anna Maria Cornelissen and passed the noble craft of beer brewing to his son Joseph (Jef) Cornelissen. Jan Mathys Cornelissen was the first of six generations of Cornelissen with the proud “JC” initials.
