 The firm has reported that their own microbrewery and tasting room in "Het Oud Schooltje" (a renovated school building) located in Oostvleteren, is open and operational.The company takes its name from the historic Flemish word for ostrich, which also is a contemporary slang term meaning "tough".They render the name into English as "The Sturdy Brewers", and many of their labels feature ostriches, a trait they share with Dutch brewery Brouwerij 't IJ.