Upcomming blends season'22-'23
these are bottled during October and November '23
Each of these blends are a combination of several different lambics combined with fruit straight from the grower and/or with spices .
Aardbei blend
A blend of 3 different lambics from 3 different breweries and 3 different ages ( 1,2,3 years ) .
Strawberries from literally three ( maybe long ) streets from the blendery . Belgian strawberries are very fruity in flavor and real flavor bombs . Before we added these to the lambic we froze everything first . By freezing the whole fruit, we created a cold maceration, which brings out the fruity taste of the strawberry instead of the sour taste that is more common with strawberries.
Here we didn't add anything because the fruit works enough for the taste and we also blend this lambic with rhubarb.
Kweepeer / Cydonia blend
A blend of 3 different lambics from 3 different breweries and 3 different ages ( 1,2,3 years ) .
The quinces are from an old orchard and added to the lambics immediately after picking. The quince tree is related to the roses , in terms of flower and smell and taste this can be correct . Most of the quince trees in the region are old trees. Quince trees can still be found near older houses or farms, but they are difficult to find.
Because they are related to roses, it was obvious to add two different rose lambics to the blend.
Witte Perzik Blend
A blend of 3 different lambics from 3 different breweries and 3 different ages ( 1,2,3 years ) .
These White Peaches come from, in the past labeled millionaires street of Flemish Brabant . This region used to be known for, among other things, peaches but very little of that remains. After all, the ironstone soil is ideal for growing stone fruit. Because I can work with this special and more and more difficult to obtain fruit, the fruit in this blend speaks for itself.
FramBOOS blend
A blend of 3 different lambics from 3 different breweries and 3 different ages ( 1,2,3 years ) .
The raspberries used for this blend were first frozen before being added to the beer. This cold maceration allows for a more fruity fermentation and the fresh fruitiness of the raspberries to come forward. In this blend we also add rose lambic and finish it off with lambic in which raspberry leaf has been fused.
Rabarber blend
A blend of 3 different lambics from 3 different breweries and 3 different ages ( 1,2,3 years ) .
The Rhubarb is actually a vegetable , so in theory we should say that this is a Vegetable Lambic . The Rhubarb in this blend comes directly from one of the few organic farms that is still intensively growing Rhubarb .
Nothing else was added to this blend because we used part of the blend with Strawberry .
Black Aronia blend
A blend of 3 different lambics from 3 different breweries and 3 different ages ( 1,2,3 years ) with Aronia .
Duindoorn blend
A blend of 3 different Lambics .
Sinaas blend
2 lambics of different years but from the same brewery macerated on orange .
Zest + Beans blend
2 lambics of different years but from the same brewery macerated on orange zest with coffeebeans .
Aardbei / Kriek blend
3rd strawberry blend ... Strawberries from 3 streets away , cold macerated on Kriekenlambiek from 3 different breweries as well as own Kriekenlambiek added at bottling .
Kumquat blend
Freshly picked Spanish Kumquats added directly to a 2 year old Lambic . After trying last year with zeste of citrus , I had the opportunity to get fresh picked kumquats from Spain . This one has a soft skin ( edible ) and a sour fruit . We macerated the entire fruit ( divided in two ) for 4 months on the lambic .
Furthermore, there are some experiments with spices and hops in small quantities as well as hybrids with beer and wine .