Brouwerij Lindemans

Why it matters

Represents the commercial, sweetened end of the lambic tradition, which is how most drinkers outside Belgium first meet it — and which is a genuinely different product from an unsweetened gueuze rather than a lesser version of one.

Details

Reference beers

• Lindemans Kriek3.5% ABV

  A sweetened cherry lambic, and the form in which most drinkers outside Belgium first meet the tradition.

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Styles it is associated with

• Fruit lambic — Lambic refermented on whole fruit — traditionally sour cherry or raspberry — producing a dry, tart, intensely fruity beer.
• Gueuze — A blend of young and old lambic, refermented in bottle — intensely complex, bone dry and Champagne-like in its carbonation.

Traditions

• Belgian spontaneous fermentation — Lambic brewing in the Senne valley: inoculation from ambient air, years in wood, and blending to produce gueuze.