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Het Boerenerf is a blendery and currently has no brewing equipment. The bottling is done manually by the blender at the farm due to the lack of a bottling machine. As of summer 2021receives lambic wort from 5 different lambic brewers, being: [[Brouwerij_3_Fonteinen|Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen]], [[Brouwerij_De_Troch|De Troch]], [[Brouwerij_Lindemans|Lindemans]], Het Boerenerf has 25 barrels of different sizes (500 [[Den_Herberg|Den Herberg]] and 220 liters) originating from Burgundy and BordeauxAngerik. The first batch of lambic to go into barrels was brewed at [[Brouwerij_3_Fonteinen|Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen]] on April 28 and April 29 2020. This initial brew makes up the majority of Het Boerenerf's first fruited lambic releasein 2021. As of 2021, Het Boerenerf has also recieved wort from [[Brouwerij_De_Troch|De Troch]] as well as and [[Brouwerij_Lindemans|Lindemans]]provide the blendery with lambic wort since 2021, and [[Den_Herberg|Den Herberg]] and Angerik as of 2022. There is currently no brewing equipment. The bottling of the first two lambic batches was done manually by the blender at the farm, although an automated bottling machine will be used for the beers of the 2022-2023 season. The barrel room quickly expanded from 25 barrels in 2021 to around 80 barrels in 2022. The barrels have different sizes (between 200 and 750 liters) and originate from Burgundy and Bordeaux. Mid 2022 the total capacity was around 25,000 liters. The first release of fruited lambic represents in 2021 represented some of the shortest chain lambic available with all of the brewing ingredients and fruit coming directly from Pajottenland soil, and sold solely at the blendery. The ambition is to work as organically as possible. The Easter weekend is traditionally the start of the blendery’s commercial season, and thus the release of new beers batches. The variety of the beer line-up may vary each year, depending on the fruit harvest’s quality. Het Boerenerf released its first traditional ‘oude gueuze’ in 2022, and named it ‘Gueuze Erfgoed’. It was available in 750ml and magnum (1500ml) bottles. The blender pays an approriate tribute to his ancesters of the [[Eylenbosch_(Huizingen)|Eylenbosch Huizingen]] family, because of the gueuze’s name (‘Erfgoed’ means ‘Heritage’) and the retro black colored label artwork, which resembles to the 1960s label. The second gueuze batch was released shortly thereafter in 2022, albeit in 375ml bottles. The green colored label of the second batch will be the distinctive color of the blendery’s future gueuze blends. Lambic, cider and mead are the main pillars of Het Boerenerf, because they represent the blendery’s DNA. These three ferments allow the blender to creatively produce a higher variety of limited batches. ‘Symbiose’ is one of those creative limited batches. It is a unique blend of lambic, cider and mead, since this combination was never before produced by a lambic producer. The blendery intends to promote short chain its beers with sales taking place only mainly on the local market, although international exports expanded as of 2022 because of the blendery’s growth ambitions. One of the ambitions in the near future is to brew lambic at the farm for again in order to make the revival of the time beingfamily's legacy complete.