1702
Jacobus Walravens
James Clay
Brussels, Belgium
Timmermans is a Belgian institution, taking the title of the world’s oldest lambic brewery. Originally founded as De Mol (The Mole), in 1702, Timmermans have been perfecting their craft in the Flemish village of Itterbeek ever since.
After a sideline in exporting artisanal Belgian beer to the Sultan of Constantinople, the brewery became Brouwerji Timmermans in the early twentieth century, when the owner’s youngest daughter married a brewer from the nearby village of Zuun named Frans Timmermans.
The region has always been famous for the Lambic style, where malt-heavy beers are allowed to ferment through contact with wild yeast and native bacteria, giving gueuze and kriek their unique sour and wine- or cider-like flavour. Timmermans have always been famous for fruit-forward brews, using fresh peach or raspberry to cut through the beer’s natural acidity, and recent small-batch bottlings of protected lambic styles like Oude Kriek and Oude Gueuze taking things to the next level.
In 1900 there were around 300 lambic breweries. A century later there are ten left, so here’s to Timmermans for keeping those sour fires burning.
Timmermans Beer - Available Now
| Framboise | Lambic Fruit Beer (raspberry) | 12x33cl Btls nrb | 4.0% |
| Framboise | Lambic Fruit Beer (raspberry) | 24x33cl Btls rb | 4.0% |
| Kriek | Lambic Fruit Beer (cherry) | 12x33cl Btls nrb | 4.0% |
| Kriek | Lambic Fruit Beer (cherry) | 24x33cl Btls rb | 4.0% |
| Kriek | Lambic Fruit Beer (cherry) | 30Ltr Keg | 4.0% |
| Lambicus Blanche | Session Lambic | 12x37,5cl Btls nrb | 4.5% |
| Lambicus Blanche | Session Lambic | 15Ltr Keg | 4.5% |
| Lambicus Blanche | Session Lambic | 15Ltr Keg | 4.5% |
| OUDE Gueuze | Lambic Gueuze | 12x37,5cl Btls nrb | 6.7% |
| OUDE Kriek | Lambic Kriek | 12x37,5cl Btls nrb | 6.7% |
| Peche | Lambic Fruit Beer (peach) | 12x33cl Btls nrb | 4.0% |
| Peche | Lambic Fruit Beer (peach) | 24x33cl Btls rb | 4.0% |
| Peche | Lambic Fruit Beer (peach) | 15Ltr Keg | 4.0% |
| Sloe | Lambic Fruit Beer (Sloe) | 12x33cl Cans | 3.5% |
| Strawberry | Lambic Fruit Beer (strawberry) | 12x33cl Btls nrb | 4.0% |
| Strawberry | Lambic Fruit Beer (strawberry) | 12x33cl Cans | 4.0% |
| Strawberry | Lambic Fruit Beer (strawberry) | 30Ltr Keg | 4.0% |
Our Timmermans Range
Framboise
| Style: | Lambic Fruit Beer (raspberry) |
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| ABV: | 4.0% |
Faithfully reflecting the colour and flavour of ripe raspberries, with no trace of the acidity of lambic. This wonderful flavour reaches its peak with its intensely fresh after-taste.
| Bottles | 12x33cl Btls nrb |
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| Bottles | 24x33cl Btls rb |
Kriek
| Style: | Lambic Fruit Beer (cherry) |
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| ABV: | 4.0% |
An immense cherry flavour, agreeably sweet and fruity bouquet - a long lingering taste with a powerful nose.
| Bottles | 12x33cl Btls nrb |
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| Bottles | 24x33cl Btls rb |
| Draught | 30Ltr Keg |
Lambicus Blanche
| Style: | Session Lambic |
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| ABV: | 4.5% |
An unconventional blanche, traditionally brewed with wheat added to a lambic. Its flavour is slightly tart and fairly rounded with a hint of lemon peel, slightly sweet but excellent as a thirst quencher.
| Bottles | 12x37,5cl Btls nrb |
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| Draught | 15Ltr Keg |
| Draught | 15Ltr Keg |
OUDE Gueuze
| Style: | Lambic Gueuze |
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| ABV: | 6.7% |
Oude Gueuze is an appellation controlee : its label is protected. It is also known as the champagne of beers, especially as it is only available as a limited edition. Timmermans Oude Gueuze's special flavour derives from its time-honoured method of preparation. It is a blend of old lambic, which has been aged for three years in wooden barrels, and young lambic which ensures spontaneous fermentation in the bottle. The different lambics are carefully selected by the brewer to obtain a perfect flavour. After it has been produced, Timmermans Oude Gueuze, which is refermented for four months in the bottle, continues to improve for 20 years.
| Bottles | 12x37,5cl Btls nrb |
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OUDE Kriek
| Style: | Lambic Kriek |
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| ABV: | 6.7% |
Timmermans Oude Kriek uses the highest concentration of cherries on the market: 400 g of cherries with stones. Stones provide the beer with a both acidic and complex taste that is completely absent in a stoneless variety. They macerate for at least six months in the old lambic. The result after the second fermentation in the bottle: an incomparable taste of full-flavoured cherries.
| Bottles | 12x37,5cl Btls nrb |
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Peche
| Style: | Lambic Fruit Beer (peach) |
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| ABV: | 4.0% |
A mature beer with a powerful fruit aroma - sweet and fruity flavour with just a hint of bitterness from the peach kernel and skin.
| Bottles | 12x33cl Btls nrb |
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| Bottles | 24x33cl Btls rb |
| Draught | 15Ltr Keg |
Sloe
| Style: | Lambic Fruit Beer (Sloe) |
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| ABV: | 3.5% |
This fruity and palatable beer is king-of-the-thirst-quenchers, and has a certain character thanks to an elegant combination of ingredients.
| Cans | 12x33cl Cans |
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Strawberry
| Style: | Lambic Fruit Beer (strawberry) |
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| ABV: | 4.0% |
Timmermans brewery,the living heritage of Belgian brewing was founded in 1781 and is one of the last remaining breweries where lambic beer is still produced in the traditional way. Refreshment is what this belgian beer is all about. A lusciously fruity drink packed with strawberries both in aroma and taste and with just a little tartness to counter the full sweetness. Delicious! .
| Bottles | 12x33cl Btls nrb |
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| Cans | 12x33cl Cans |
| Draught | 30Ltr Keg |
