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Nearly three years later in November of 2005 a pair of friends, Gert Christiaens & Roland De Bus reopened the brewery and restarted wort production at Boon. Though reopened only as a side project, Oud Beersel continued to grow and Roland De Bus resigned in 2007 leaving the company to Gert Christiaens and his wife Jos. Today, Oud Beersel lambic is still brewed at Boon based on specifications from older recipes of the Vandervelden family and then immediately transported to Oud Beersel for barreling. Though the wort is still brewed at Boon, Oud Beersel is blended in-house without the addition of other brewery’s lambic. Today Oud Beersel’s production is up to nearly 1,050 hectoliters, half of which which includes two non-lambic beers.<ref name=“GeuzeKriek”>Jef Van den Steen,[[Books#Geuze & Kriek: The Secret of Lambic Beer|Geuze & Kriek: The Secret of Lambic Beer]], 2012</ref> Oud Beersel became a member of [[HORAL|HORAL]] on January 18, 2006.<ref name=“OudBeerselHistory”> Oud Beersel History (Dutch), http://www.oudbeersel.com/brouwerij/historie/</ref> <ref name=“HoralOudBeersel”>HORAL, Oud Beersel (Dutch), http://www.horal.be/vereniging/oud-beersel-beersel</ref> On May 25, 2006 , exactly six months after the official reopening of the brewery, Oud Beersel released a limited test batch of Oude Gueuze and Oude Kriek which paved the way for the 2007 bottling of Oude Gueuze to be voted the world’s best gueuze by the magazine “Beers of the World".<ref name=“OudBeerselHistory”> Oud Beersel History (Dutch), http://www.oudbeersel.com/brouwerij/historie/</ref>
===Timeline===
The following timeline is presented on [http://www.oudbeersel.com/en/brewery/history/ Oud Beersel's] official website in Dutch, French, and English. It is reproduced here to exhibit the long history of the brewery and the Vandervelden family. The website is an excellent resource not only for the brewery's written history, but also for its photographic history.
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! Date style
! Person
! Event
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| 1880||Henri Vandervelden||Active as fruit picker and worker at the brewery De Kroon in Ukkel/Uccle
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| 1882||Henri Vandervelden||Building of the brewery and barrel room.
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| 1922||Egidius Vandervelden||Son Egidius marries the daughter of a farmer and cheese maker
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| 1922||Egidius Vandervelden||Egidius transforms the farm and establishes the brewery in that building
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| 1926||Henri Vandervelden II||Birth of Henri Vandervelden II
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| 1930||Egidius Vandervelden||First brewery with sweetened, pasteurized Kriek in bottles with crown cap
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| 1934||Egidius Vandervelden||The farm and the cart shed were converted to a pub which was run by one of the daughters until 1988
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| 1941-1945||Egidius Vandervelden||Further development brewing equipment with second-hand material
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| 1941-1945||Egidius Vandervelden||Since the use of wheat was prohibited during the war, lambic was brewed on the basis of sugar beets and a small part of wheat
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| 1948||Henri Vandervelden II||Graduates as brewer at the Institut National des Industries de Fermentation (Ceria)
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| 1953||Egidius Vandervelden||Death of Egidius
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| 1953||Henri Vandervelden II||Takes over his father’s brewery operations
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| 1954||Henri Vandervelden II||Boost of the brewing capacity to 50hl per brew
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| 1954||Henri Vandervelden II||The brewery uses the name Oud Beersel as a reaction against the new city of Brussels.
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| 1959||Henri Vandervelden II||Purchase of an Opel Blitz truck
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| 1973||Henri Vandervelden II||Equips Oud Beersel as the first living brewery museum of Belgium
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| 1981||Henri Vandervelden II||Test Aankoop (consumer organization): Highest rating / No saccharin in the beer
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| 1986||Henri Vandervelden II||Foundation of the fraternity Tastegeuze Broederschap
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| 1988||Henri Vandervelden II||Due to the high-priced bottling equipment, the bottling is outsourced to the Brewery Boon
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| 1988||Danny Draps||Takes over the pub “Het bierhuis” from his mother, situated next to the brewery
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| 1991||Henri Vandervelden II||Henri retires
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| 1991||Danny Draps||Danny takes over the brewery operations
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| 1991||Danny Draps||The wort production is partly outsourced to the Brewery Boon
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| 12/24/2002||Danny Draps||The brewery activities and the pub are discontinued
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| 01/31/2003||Henri Vandervelden II||Launches a call to find a successor for the brewery
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| 11/25/2005||Gert Christiaens & Roland De Bus||Reopening of the Brewery Oud Beersel and launch of the Bersalis beer
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| 01/18/2006||Gert Christiaens & Roland De Bus||Oud Beersel joins HORAL (High Council for Artisanal Lambic style beers)
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| 05/25/2006||Gert Christiaens & Roland De Bus||The first limited production of Oude Geuze and Oude Kriek is sold
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| 03/16/2007||Gert Christiaens & Roland De Bus||Official relaunch of the Oude Geuze and Oude Kriek Oud Beersel
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| 03/19/2007||VZW De Geuzen van Oud Beersel||Foundation of the NPO De Geuzen van Oud Beersel (beer minded epicureans)
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| 07/18/2007||Roland De Bus||Roland resigns as general manager
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| 07/30/2007||Gert Christiaens||Oude Geuze Oud Beersel is voted the World’s Best Gueuze beer by the magazine “Beers of the World”
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| 04/01/2007||Jos Christiaens||Jos Christiaens joins as unpaid general manager
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| 10/14/2007||Gert en Jos Christiaens||Oud Beersel celebrates its 125th anniversary
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| 11/22/2007||Gert en Jos Christiaens||Installation of four mixing tanks for the assemblage of lambic
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| 03/21/2008||Gert en Jos Christiaens||Oude Kriek Oud Beersel wins the Gold Medal on Ratebeer
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| 04/19/2008||Gert en Jos Christiaens||Oude Geuze Oud Beersel wins Silver at the World Beer Cup 2008
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| 10/30/2008||Gert en Jos Christiaens||Investment in a modern barrel cleaning equipment
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| 05/14/2009||Gert en Jos Christiaens||Oud Beersel is honoured as laureate of “Ambacht in de Kijker” (craft in the spotlight) by Sabine Laruelle, Minister for SME’s and Independents
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| 06/03/2009||Gert en Jos Christiaens||Oud Beersel wins the ‘Ultimate KMO Makeover’ (marketing initiative of Microsoft for SME’s) and strongly invests in renewal
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| 07/09/2009||Gert en Jos Christiaens||Launch of the Bersalis Kadet beer
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| 03/31/2010||Gert en Jos Christiaens||Oud Beersel increases its capacity by purchasing five wooden barrels of approximately 45 HL per barrel
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| 06/01/2010||Gert en Jos Christiaens||First employee joins Oud Beersel as sales representative
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== Beers ==