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Lambic Beers) is a consortium of lambic brewers and blenders that works together to promote lambic beers, brewing, and culture in Belgium. Their stated goals are "to promote the craft lambic beers and related products, paying attention to the entire process of brewing to serving lambic; denouncing irregularities concerning artisanal lambic beers and related products; take steps to protect the traditional lambic beers and related products".<ref name = "HORALAssociation"> HORAL - Association, Members, and History, http://www.horal.be/vereniging (Dutch)</ref> HORAL has worked to obtain and maintain current European Protections on traditional lambic beers since the Traditionally Specialty Guaranteed label was assigned to.<Ref name = "Avermaete&Vandermosten"> Tessa Avermaete and Gert Vandermosten, Traditional Belgian Beers

In January of 1997, at the insistence of 3 Fonteinen's Armand Debelder HORAL formally established themselves with its original members: 3 Fonteinen, Boon, De Cam (then owned by Willem Van Herreweghen), De Troch, Lindemans, and Timmermans. The impetus to creating the group, to promote and protect lambic beers in the face of continued decline, drove the HORAL members to organize the first [[Toer_de_Geuze|Toer de Geuze]] on October 19, 1997. Toer de Geuze has been held every other year since then, with the most recent being in 2013. The most recent addition to the council is Pierrer Tilquin, owner and blender at Gueuzerie Tilquin, who joined in 2012.<ref name = "HORALAssosciation"> HORAL - Association, Members, and History, http://www.horal.be/vereniging (Dutch)</ref>

On December 2, 2014 HORAL sponsored a seminar called the Lambic Academy in which participants could sign up to learn the basics about lambic from its history and ingredients to serving, smelling, and tasting lambic beers. Among the speakers were Armand De Belder of 3 Fonteinen. <Ref name="HORALAcademy"> HORAL - Lambic Academy, http://horal.be/lambiek-academie (Dutch)</ref>