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Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste was founded in 1892 and began as a family brewery. It is currently in its 4th generation of family ownership. The name Bockor was adopted for a time in 1938 but was recently changed back to Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste. They are known for producing Cuvée des Jacobins Rouge, a Flemish Red, and Vanderghinste, an Oud Bruin. Their flagship spontaneously fermented beer is Jacobins Gueuze, in addition to its spontaneously fermented beers Jacobins Kriek, Kriek Max, and Rosé Max.

Van Honsebrouck is a producer of spontaneous fermentation beers as well as ales and lagers. The brewery began producing spontaneously fermented beers based on the the success of Belle-Vue 1950s. By the early 1970's they were brewing their own lambic-style products under the name Saint Louis, using a [[koelschip]] and foeders for aging.

There are records of lambic producers all across Belgium, with Brussels and the Senne Valley as its epicenter. With limited information available, it is difficult to know definitively who was actually brewing their own lambic, who was buying lambic for blending (sometimes with their own beer), and who was buying finished lambic and relabeling it as their own. As this information becomes available, it will be documented in the [[List_of_Closed_Lambic_Breweries_and_Blenders | Closed Lambic Producers]] section of the website. If you can provide any additional information, photographs, or a bottle to help further the [http://lambic.info Lambic.info] initiative, please contact our primary retired brewery researcher [[User:Matt|Matt]] or site editors [[User:Bill|Bill]] or [[User:Adam|Adam]].