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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 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 ancestors 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 commercially released by a lambic producer.