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Various fruits have a long history of augmenting the taste of lambic. Traditionally, fruit lambic is made my macerating whole fruit with young lambic in wooden casks. A second fermentation of the sugars from the lambic and the fruit then takes place. After maturation the lambic is typically bottled with with a small amount of young lambic or liquor to aid natural carbonation in the bottle.<ref name="Guinard">Jean-Xavier Guinard, [[Books#Classic Beer Styles: Lambic|Classic Beer Styles: Lambic]], 1990</ref> Some breweries such as [[Brouwerij Lindemans|Lindeman]]'s and [[De Troch]] also use various fruit syrups to flavor their lambics.
[[Kriek]] (cherry), [[Framboise]] (raspberry), and [[Druif]] (grape) are all commonly used among lambic producers. Other fruits include peach, black currant, apricot, apple, and a wide variety of more exotic fruits such as [[Brasserie_Cantillon|Cantillon]]'s use of bilberries in their [[Cantillon_Blåbær_LambiekCantillon_Blåbær_Lambik|Blåbær Lambik]] and [[Neill_and_Ross|Neill and Ross]]'s use of blackberries in [[Shot_in_the_Dark|Shot in the Dark]].
* '''Faro'''
Historically Faro is a lower-alcohol, sweetened beer made with a blend of lambic and another freshly brewed beer (sometimes called a mars beer) in varying amounts.<ref name="Guinard">Jean-Xavier Guinard, Classic Beer Styles: Lambic, 1990</ref> Faros are also known to have candy sugar, brown sugar, or cane molasses added to enhance the flavor. According to Guinard, Faro "was a blend of equal amounts of lambic and mars... and was a sweet, light table beer that had to be brewed and sold before the heat of summer to avoid fermentation accidents and spoilage." Non-lambic beers that were blended in to create the Faro were only brewed until the month of March, from which these beers derived their name. The custom of blending in mars beers into contemporary Faro has subsided and they are now a blended version of young lambic sweetened with dark candy sugar and caramel coming in around 4.5% ABV. <ref name="Guinard">Jean-Xavier Guinard, Classic Beer Styles: Lambic, 1990</ref> Recent commercial examples include [[Brouwerij_3_Fonteinen|3 Fonteinen]]'s [[3_Fonteinen_Straffe_Winter|Straffe Winter]] and [[De_Cam_Geuzestekerij|De Cam]]'s [[De_Cam_Geuzestekerij_Oude_Faro_De_Cam|Oude Faro De Cam]]