Warning lights
Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 4 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Optimist Brew Co. from Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, company number BE0730567277, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -96,211 after tax. For that financial year Optimist Brew Co. recorded a gross margin of € 137,121 and equity of € -143,409. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -101,610 to € -96,211. The company made a loss. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 30, 2026.
€ -143,409
▼ € 84,837 vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -96,211
▲ 5 % less loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 34,492
▲ 208% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -327,945.
People and assets in 2025
€ 185,855
▲ 5% vs 2024
Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 11,034
▼ 83% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 381,665
▲ 49% vs 2024
€ 16,192 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 24 years.
€ 70,340
▲ € 56,119 vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 25,593
▼ 32% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 42,308 | € 87,952 | € 104,485 | € 137,121 | ▲ 31% |
| Profit after taxes | € -20,575 | € -34,885 | € -101,610 | € -96,211 | ▲ € 5,399 |
| Equity | € -11,792 | € -42,364 | € -58,571 | € -143,409 | ▼ € 84,837 |
| Total debts | € 252,068 | € 277,132 | € 318,182 | € 481,057 | ▲ 51% |
| Cash | € 29,683 | € 15,580 | € 11,193 | € 34,492 | ▲ 208% |
| Retained profit | € -95,239 | € -130,124 | € -231,734 | € -327,945 | ▼ € 96,211 |
| Bank debt | € 209,800 | € 236,889 | € 256,632 | € 381,665 | ▲ 49% |
| Balance sheet total | € 240,276 | € 234,768 | € 259,611 | € 337,648 | ▲ 30% |
Key figures of Optimist Brew Co., fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.
What happened to Optimist Brew Co.?
What happened at Optimist Brew Co. in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 96,211. Source: NBB ↗
- Augustin Querton became a director. NBB
- Alexis Leplat became a director. NBB
- Nicolas Van den Eynde stepped down as director. NBB
- New establishment in Havelange. KBO
- New establishment in Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe. KBO
- Julian de Garcia de la Vega became a director. NBB
- Nicolas Van den Eynde became a director. NBB
In short
From € 20,575 loss in 2022 to € 96,211 loss in 2025.
Paid € 29 in corporate taxes since 2022.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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NMBS 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left ▼ 80%
bpost 18 May 2026 New annual account 2025 What was left from loss to profit
Management
The stake of MaCAQ comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Optimist Brew Co.Behind Optimist Brew Co. are Augustin Querton, Alexis Leplat and Julian de Garcia de la Vega. The shares are held by MaCAQ (31.8%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 2024
Alexis Leplat
Director
since 2024
Julian de Garcia de la Vega
Director
since 2019
Nicolas Van den Eynde
Director
since 2019 · until 2024
Shareholders
31.8%
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Georges Henrilaan 410
1200 Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe
Froidmont(F) 2
5370 Havelange
Active since 1 March 2023
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 3 companies are registered at this address.
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Website
Technologies
Hosting & Email
Email provider
Google Workspace
Hosting
CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM Cloudflare, Inc., US
DNS
Cloudflare DNS
Domain
Domain
smilekombucha.com
Registered
2019-05-31
Registrar
GoDaddy.com, LLC
Expires
2029-05-31
Website info
Features
Security
Network
Details
- Company number
- 0730.567.277
- VAT number
- BE 0730.567.277
- Registered office
- Georges Henrilaan 410, 1200 Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe
- Names & denominations
- Optimist Brew Co.
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 10 July 2019
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 21 Nov 2025
- Contact
- smilekombucha.com [email protected]
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