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In 2000, after a successful three years of blending lambic, Willem van Herreweghen left De Cam to return to Palm Breweries as a technical advisor. At the time, Karel Goddeau had been helping around De Cam and Willem had already suggested that Goddeau take over the operations. While finishing his final project as a student at Hogeschool CTL, researching starting a microbrewery and the brewing process of spontaneously fermented beers at [[Brouwerij_3_Fonteinen|3 Fonteinen]], both Armand and Gaston Debelder agreed to show him the art of blending lambic. In May of 2000 Goddeau agreed to become the blender at De Cam while still maintining his day job as a brewer at a non-lambic brewery nearby <ref name=“GeuzeKriek”>Jef Van den Steen, [[Books#Geuze & Kriek: The Secret of Lambic Beer|Geuze & Kriek: The Secret of Lambic Beer]], 2012</ref>.
Today De Cam is still one of the smallest lambic blenders in Belgium receiving their lambic from [[Brouwerij Boon|Boon]], [[Brouwerij Girardin|Girardin]], and [[Brouwerij Lindemans|Lindemans]]. The blendery is also a member of [[HORAL|HORAL]]. For his part, Karel still works as a brewer at [http://www.witkap.be Brouwerij Slaghmuylder] about 11 kilometers from Gooik while maintaining the blending and bottling at De Cam.
== Beers ==