Lindemans Brewery

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Brouwerij Lindemans
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Location Vlezenbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Opened1822
Annual production volume75,000 hL [1]
Active beers
NameType
Lindemans Apple Lambic
Lindemans Cassis Cassis
Lindemans Faro Faro
Lindemans Framboise Framboise
Lindemans Gueuze Cuvée René Gueuze
Lindemans Kriek Cuvée René Kriek
Lindemans Kriek Kriek
Lindemans Pêcheresse Pêcheresse

Lindemans Brewery (Brouwerij Lindemans) is a Belgian family brewery based in Vlezenbeek, a small town in Flemish Brabant, southwestern Brussels. It produces lambics, a style of Belgian ale that uses raw wheat and wild yeast. [2]

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History

The history of Lindemans Brewery began in 1822 when the brewery was founded on a small farm in Vlezenbeek. [3] The brewery's patriarch was Frans Lindemans, the brother of the then-bailiff of Gaasbeek. [4] In 1930, due to the growing success of the brewery, the agricultural activity was stopped definitively to focus on the brewing of Kriek and Gueuze. They produced their first Faro in 1978. Shortly after, in 1980 the brewery started its production of Framboise. Consequently, in 1986 and 1987, Lindemans added Cassis and Pêcheresse to its assortment. Finally, in 2005, Apple was the last beer to be introduced.

The brewery, to this day, is still a family company, run by brothers Nestor and Rene for a long time, [5] before their sons, Dirk and Geert, took over the business, each having a 50% interest in the company. [1]

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Lindemans Brewery in Vlezenbeek

Production

Lindemans brews its lambic according to the method of spontaneous fermentation. This lambic is then used as the base for all of the fruit beers. In 25 years, the production grew from 5.000 to 50.000 hectoliters. Over that span, the brewery expanded multiple times. In 1991 a new brewhouse was built next to the old one to increase capacity. In 2013 works for a new expansion, with a new bottling plant, started. Today, the brewery brews 85.000 hectoliters per year. 60.000 hectoliters of this amount is lambic, the base to which fruit juices are added. Each year 6.000 hectoliters of Lindemans Faro are produced, representing 7,5% of the entire production.

Beers

Faro

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Framboise and Pêcheresse bottles

Lindemans Faro is a lambic beer. The first Lindemans Faro was brewed in 1978, when the beverage was becoming popular again. At 4% ABV, it is considered a light beer. It is available in 250 ml, 375 ml and 750 ml bottles.

Fruit beers

Lindemans varieties include Lambic Framboise (raspberry), Kriek (sour cherry), Pêcheresse (peach), Cassis (blackcurrant), Pomme (apple), and Strawberry.

Because of the limited availability of sour cherries from Schaerbeek, the traditional ingredient for Kriek, Lindemans Kriek is made using unsweetened cherry juice which is added to a mixture of lambics of different ages. The resulting beer is described as less sour and more fruity. It contains 2.5% ABV.

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