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Lambic has tradtionally been served in a number of ways including directly from wooden casks, to bottles, to modern day draught systems. The various methods of serving lambic can often coincide with the equipment and vessels used to serve the beer, and many of the traditions and methods employed to serve lambic have remained unchanged since the 19th century.
==Serving Equipment=Casks===From the large oak barrels that house the lambic at the brewery to the small wooden casks that were used to serve lambic at smaller cafés, the original way to begin serving lambic was from the cask. Before blending and bottling geuze became standard, lambic was generally served straight from the cask or sweetened into a faro or ''lambic doux'' (sweet lambic). Today, lambic, faro, and fruited lambic from the cask be found in many cafés in the Pajottenland. The use of casks for the initial serving point, likely led to the use of the traditional lambic pitchers. ===Lambic Pitchers and Other Stoneware===''Main article: [[Lambic pitchers and other stoneware]]''Many lambic drinkers are familiar with the blueish-gray hued clay pitchers that many lambic breweries use to serve their lambics. Their history dates back to the 16th century. Many believe that the first historical depiction of this stoneware being used for lambic (more specifically Faro) is in Pieter Bruegel's painting ''The Peasant Wedding'' (''Le Repas de noce'', French, ''De boerenbruiloft'', Dutch).<ref name=GeuzeFaroEtKriek>Raymond Buren, [[Books#Gueuze.2C_Faro_et_Kriek|Gueuze, Faro, et Kriek]], 1992</ref> Through the years, many lambic brewers and blenders as well as cafés have used these pitchers.
===Baskets===
Because many lambics are [[An_Overview_of_Lambic#Storage_.2F_Cellaring|stored on their side]], the use of lambic baskets is common when serving bottles recently pulled from the cellar. Traditional, unfiltered labic contains sediment. As lambic matures on it side in cellars, this sediment accumlates on the side of the bottle. It is generally preferred to pour a lambic without sediment, and the basket helps prevent this.
Lambic baskets are generally used for 75cl bottles, though 37,5cl and 1.5-liter baskets do exist.
===Bottles and Corkscrews===
Additionally, in the case of the flat-corked bottles, several lambic breweries and blenders have a specific type of corkscrew known in French as a ''tire bouchon de comptoir'' (table-mounted corkscrew). Though there are many versions of this type of cork screw, one of the most prevalent is a corkscrew made by the British company Gaskell and Chambers called ''The Don''. This corkscrew was produced around the turn of the 20th century, and is still used today in places like [[De_Cam_Geuzestekerij|De Cam Geuzestekerij]] and the [[In_de_Verzekering_tegen_de_Grote_Dorst|Grote Dorst]] pub. The base seen supporting this corkscrew is not part of the original design, and was constructed specifically to put the corkscrew at an angle which would open the lambic while resting in a basket. In addition to The Don, there are several other models produced by the same company.
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