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Brewing lambic at Den Herberg takes place during winter season when the temperatures hit below 5 degrees centigrade at night, which is traditionally between November and April. Den Herberg has brewed lambic in Buizingen since early 2017, and they use a mobile coolship with a capacity of approximately 1800 liters. The lambic wort is then aged in French wine barrels which are made of French and American oak and with a capacity of around 400 liters. Some foudres will be introduced in the Spring of 2022. The brewery in Buizingen has a capacity to store around 60 barrels, and there’s also a second storage facility in the Devillé family’s farm in Lembeek which houses around 250 barrels. The farm has an orchard of 7.4 acres with 400 Schaarbeekse cherry trees. The cherries will be used for fruit lambics in the near future. There are currently no plans to brew lambic at the farm in Lembeek because the location is Buizingen is much closer to the Senne river and therefore best suited to brew lambic according to the brewery.
Not all brewed lambic is meant for Den Herberg’s geuze. Their lambic wort is also offered to other lambic producers such as: Sako, Bofkont, Bokke , and Kestemont (Ecodal). Andy De Brouwer – co-winner of the 2020 [[HORAL|Horal]] Award – and Vin de Liège created a hybrid beer by blending Den Herberg’s lambic with wine of Johanniter grapes. It is called ‘Meuzenne’ and bottled at Vin de Liège.
Den Herberg’s current beer range consists of top-fermented, bottom-fermented, mixed-fermentation beers, lambic , and geuze. Cuvée Devillé was , first brewed in 2014 and it’s , is a mixed fermentation beer fermented with top-fermenting yeast and wild yeasts (bretts), mixed fermentation. It makes the perfect bridge towards the brewery’s spontaneously fermented lambics, being Oude Lambiek Devillé and Oude Geuze Devillé. The old unblended lambic is available in a bag-in-box of 5 liters for take away at the brewery and local beer shops since 2018. In August 2020 , the brewery’s lambic range expanded with the release of Den Herberg’s first ‘Oude Geuze’ which is named ‘Oude Geuze Devillé’. Roughly 90 % of the Den Herberg’s lambic beers are meant for distribution on the local market and for sale at the brewery and local beer shops. Only 10 % is reserved for the international market and it is mainly distributed via beer webshops.
== Beers ==