renaud pirotte and françois dethier decided to create a liège beer during their agri-food studies. winners of the first edition of the tv programme "starter", produced by the belgian channel rtbf, both businessmen were able to realise their project and bought an industrial space, right in the historic heart of liège, in the "impasse des ursulines", below the montagne de bueren. in january 2013, they were selected as "liège businessmen of the year 2012" ("managers liègeois de l'année 2012").