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== History==

Lambiek Fabriek is a joint lambic brewing and blending project started by Jo Panneels (blending), Jozef Van Bosstraeten (brewing & blending), and Jo Van Aert (brewing) that officially opened its doors as a company in 2016 alongside the already established Belgoo brewery in the village of Ruisbroek in the Sint-Pieters-Lieuw municipality. Though Lambiek Fabriek officially established itself in 2016, the first experimental lambic blends began nearly 8 years before around 2008. Around that time, the future Lambiek Fabriek founders purchased some wort, young lambic, and old lambic from Lindemans, 3 Fonteinen, Oud Beersel, and Hanssens, and they began to experimenemt making kriek lambiek in small 20L and 60L carboys.

By 2015, the decision had been made to start a new commercial-sized lambic blendery. Given the fact that they were not able to purchase wort from the bigger lambic brewers at the time, Paneels approached Belgoo Brewery (which opened in 2015) in Ruisbroek about the possibility of brewing a traditional lambic recipe on their equipment. Belgoo is a clean top fermentation brewery mostly brewing traditional Belgian ales. Jo Van Aert, brewer at Belgoo, agreed to let Lambiek Fabriek brew lambic on-premesis.

In the beginning of the brewing of the brewing sessions at Belgoo, the coolship was not present at the brewery. Instead, it was located at another warehouse approximately a kilometer away from the brewery. For two seasons (2015-2016, and 2016-2017), freshly brewed wort was transported approximately 4.5 kilometers away from the brewery to another warehouse where it was pumped into the [[koelschip|koelschip]] to cool overnight. Logistically, this was a strain. The goal was to eventually have the two operations working side-by-side. To solve the problem of having spontaneous fermentation alongside a clean brewery, a separate warehouse was chosen on-site to house the barrels and all of the necessary pumps and hoses. The warehouse also has a separate bottling line for both 75cl and 37,5cl bottles. Eventually, it was decided that the koelschip should be moved to the brewery for logistical reasons, and it was installed under a roof outside of the brewery in the fall of 2017 so as to not interfere with the clean fermentation at the brewery.

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