Lindemans Lambic Tour 2019

22 September 2019

Lindemans' Lambic Tour: from Brussels to Lenniksebaan 1479, 1602 Vlezenbeek. Lindemans Brewery (Brouwerij Lindemans) is a Belgian family brewery based in Vlezenbeek, a small town in the Flemish Brabant southwest of Brussels. It produces lambics, a style of Belgian ale that uses raw wheat and wild yeast.HistoryThe history of Lindemans Brewery began in 1822 when the brewery was founded on a small farm in Vlezenbeek. The brewery's patriarch was Frans Lindemans, the brother of the then-bailiff of Gaasbeek.[2] 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 Pecheresse to its assortment. Finally, in 2005, Apple was the last beer to be introduced.The brewery, to this day, is still a family company, ran by brothers Nestor and Rene for a long time,[3] before their sons, Dirk and Geert, took over the business, each having a 50% interest in the company.[1]Lindemans Brewery in VlezenbeekProductionLindemans 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.

Lindemans Lambic Tour 2019, an annual bicycling event, was held this year on car free Sunday, 22 September. The route takes us from Place Royale in Brussels to the brewery, though the Zenne valley and Pajottenland to Vlezenbeek, in the Flemish Brabant southwest of Brussels to Brouwerij Lindemans in Vlezenbeek, and back, for those who can make it.

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