Trionfo garden
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Trionfo garden is a combination of a cattle meadow and an orchard. Every season comes with beauty, many "Schaarbeekse Kriek" trees give sour cherries that are mainly used to blend with old Gueuze (lambiek) beer. Trionfo has one of the largest assemblies of such Kriek trees.
Throughout the 19th century Schaarbeekse Kriek were used by brewers from Brussels and the Zenne valley to make ruby-red Kriekenlambiek, or Kriek Lambic, or just Kriek. A 1907 article, unearthed by Hors Catégorie Brewing’s Dave Janssen, loosely describes the process. Brewers preferred whole, fresh cherries, using 160-200 grams for every litre of beer. The Lambic they used was a blend of different vintages - 20% three-year-old, 50% two-year-old and 30% one-year-old. Aged in barrels for four or five months, the Kriek was then bottle conditioned for another six before release, after which it could keep its condition for up to five years.
In our basement you can find a map of Trionfo garden including the variant of the main trees in our garden.
