Zurich Bier Festival 2025

Gueuze Cuvée René is one of the jewels of our brewery. With its golden colour, its sparkle and its beautiful sherry aromas, this is the queen of gueuzes.


This old gueuze is a blend of old and young lambic matured in large oak barrels called foudres. It is then bottled in a beautiful champagne bottle where a second fermentation takes place. After 6 months, the gueuze obtains a golden colour and is slightly carbonated and tart. But kept in a cellar for a few years, it becomes truly exceptional!


The use of a champagne bottle dates back to an uncertain time period when lambic brewers specialised in recovering empty bottles from great restaurants and other establishments where a lot of champagne was consumed. That is why we chose the most noble of bottles to hold our noblest beer.


Oude Gueuze Cuvée René (GEEK HOURS)

The result of a unique blend of high fermentation beer, lambic and dark forest fruits - such as blueberries, blackcurrants and black elderberries. This blend makes Tarot Noir a ruby-red, characterful and exceptionally fruity speciality beer.

Tarot Noir (FRIDAY)

We've already told you that our family never does anything the way other people do. Kriek Lindemans is a good example of that.


In order to obtain a beer like no other, we have been adding whole sour cherries to our lambic for generations.


Our meeting with American importer Charles Finkel in the 1970s revolutionised the fruit beer segment. Charles convinced us to export our old kriek to the United States by boat. What we had not thought of is that the movement of the waves would reactivate the fermentation process and cause the corks to pop during the trip. It was like something out of The Adventures of Tintin. To prevent that from happening, we therefore developed an alternative production method for our kriek. We use fresh, not from concentrate, unsweetened cherry filtrate which we blend with lambic that is at least one year old before fermenting & macerating for up to 3 days and pasteurising the whole batch. So the corks don't pop.


Due to the use of filtrate and pasteurisation, this kriek is sweeter and fruitier than Old Kriek Cuvée René, which undergoes a second fermentation process in the bottle. Thanks to its innovative flavour, it was a resounding success both here in Belgium as well as around the world. Nowadays, it is undoubtedly the reference kriek for consumers.


Kriek (FRIDAY)

The appearance of this exceptional beer is matched only by its taste! To make our Framboise, we add raspberry juice to our lambic. That gives it a delicate fruity aroma and a beautiful dark pink colour, just like the dress I wore to our cousin Willy's wedding. (But that's of no interest to you since you undoubtedly don't know Willy). Framboise is served as an aperitif, but I also use it in cooking. And when I don't finish the bottle in my preparations, I finish it in my glass.

Framboise (FRIDAY)

Tarot d'Or (SATURDAY)

As its name suggests, Pecheresse is a lambic beer enriched with peach juice. 

A young lambic that is at least one year old, in which 30% filtrate of fresh peaches will macerate.

Brasserie Lindemans, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (BE)