The marriage remained childless, so he was the last De Troch in the brewery with the same name. When he stopped in 1974, the management passed to Jos Raes, the youngest of four sons of Raymond Raes and Magdalena De Troch (sister of Louis De Troch), who had been raised in the brewer's family. In the same year, the farm activities were stopped.
In 2000, their son Pauwel Raes entered the family business. In July 2012, he and his wife Kristel Schelfthout took over the lambic brewery.
The De Troch beer shop exists since 1964. Other lambic brewers also started to trade beer at that time. At that time, the sale of lambic and gueuze was declining. The brewery is the only Llambic brewery left in the municipality with an annual production of around 3,500 hl.
In the early 1980s, the De Troch brewery caused quite a stir in the gueuze world by being the first to launch a lambic with banana and mango. Since it is not easy for French speakers to pronounce 'De Troch', Jos Raes marketed these new beers under the brand name 'Chapeau' in view of the growing export opportunities (especially to France). The Chapeau range was later expanded to include mirabelles, apricot, peach, banana, ... and now forms a large part of the production. The unfiltered artisanal gueuze is still available and was the first Oude Geuze to be recognised as a regional product by VLAM vzw.
The brewery is housed in a stately square-shaped farm and is a gem of industrial archeology.