From the beginning of his superior, Father Hyacinthe Bouteca thought to endow the monastery brewery that would provide, adjacent to the farm operation, sufficient income to support an ever growing community.
The buildings of the brewery, like the dairy moreover, was completed in 1862. Recent authorizations were issued early in 1863 by members of the Permanent Deputation of the Provincial Council of Hainaut, who stopped in their meeting of 10 January 1863 that "the Sieur Bouteca Liévin is authorized to establish the service of La Trappe, Forges, for two steam engines, one, strength of 8 horses for moving wheels and accessories brewery, the other, the strength of a horse, beat butter, devices powered by two steam boilers "