Lindemans Alcohol-Free Beers

Lindemans is a family lambic brewery in Vlezenbeek, near Brussels, named in 1822 and owned today by two sixth-generation cousins. Its alcohol-free Kriek 0.0 and Pecheresse 0.0, launched in 2025, aren’t lambics: they’re made on a lambic-like base at its newer brewery in Ruisbroek, it says.

Who are Lindemans?

Lindemans dates itself to 1822, when Joos Frans Lindemans and Francisca Josina Vandersmissen took over her family’s farm, Hof ter Kwadewegen, in Vlezenbeek, in Belgium’s Pajottenland, it says; it got the Lindemans name that year, when Joos Frans first paid taxes himself, Dirk and Geert Lindemans told the Belgian bank KBC in 2021.

The cousins, the sixth generation, have led it since 2006, the brewery says. they told KBC that today they each own half of the shares; a large brewery had been very interested in taking Lindemans over, and the family kept it, and Geert said they remain a family business. Lindemans calls itself “the world’s largest family-owned lambic brewery”. We found no drinks group involved, so we list it as independent.

What Lindemans brews

Brewing had become the farm’s main business by 1920, and farming stopped in 1956, the brewery says; its Vlezenbeek brewhouse has “towering copper tuns and vats, as well as two coolships”. Its range runs from fruit lambics such as Kriek, Framboise and Apple to strong fruit beers, traditional sours such as Oude Gueuze Cuvée René, and sweetened Gueuze and Faro. Its Oude Kriek was first made in 1961 with Schaarbeek sour cherries. A pasteurised Kriek followed in the late 1970s: the history page says 1978, and the Kriek’s own page says “Since 1979”. It came about after bottles broke or corks blew on the way to the USA, the cousins told KBC.

Pecheresse, brewed since 1987, is Lindemans’ second best-selling beer, it says; the name plays on pêche (peach) and pécheresse (temptress).

How big is Lindemans?

It brews about 120,000 hectolitres of lambic a year, and about three-quarters is exported, Krones reported in 2022. In 2022 it opened a second site, the Lindemans Satellite Brewery in Ruisbroek, about ten kilometres away, after investing more than €28 million, Made in reported. It’s sized for 200,000 hectolitres a year, nearly twice Vlezenbeek, Krones reported. Before it opened, the cousins told KBC it would make lambic-like beers without spontaneous fermentation.

Lindemans’ alcohol-free beers

Lindemans’ alcohol-free beers aren’t lambics, and it never says it removes alcohol. “Lindemans developed its own method, based on the unique microflora from the Pajottenland region,” it says, using “specific micro-organisms that create a base beer very similar to lambic”, with no alcohol. Both are brewed in Ruisbroek, Dirk Lindemans says.

Kriek 0.0 came first, in 2025; Lindemans says it was the first lambic brewery to launch an alcohol-free kriek, with “exactly the same amount of freshly pressed cherries and natural aromas” as the classic. “We wanted to prove that you don’t have to compromise on flavour when brewing alcohol-free beer,” Geert Lindemans said in 2026. Pecheresse 0.0 was announced on 1 September 2025: “It was crucial to us that Pecheresse 0.0% delivers the same quality and experience as the classic version,” Geert said.

Both come in 25cl bottles, singly or in 4-packs, the brewery says. It doesn’t publish ingredients or calories; the shops list 25% cherry juice in the Kriek and 26% peach juice, plus apple juice, in the Pecheresse, with sugar and the sweetener stevia in both. We found no other Lindemans alcohol-free beers.

Lindemans says Kriek 0.0 won gold, Belgium’s country winner and world’s best in the no and low alcohol sour and wild class at the World Beer Awards 2026; a winners list hosted by Portugal Resident, rather than by the awards, lists it as the style winner. Lindemans also says Kriek 0.0 was Belgium’s country winner in 2025, and that Pecheresse 0.0 won bronze in 2026; we haven’t found either in published results.

How Lindemans’ alcohol-free beers compare

Alcohol-free fruit beers from Belgian breweries in our directory. Calories as published. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

The Lindemans beers in our directory

Checked October 2026. Lindemans doesn’t publish calories; the Kriek’s figure is The Alcohol Free Co’s. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Lindemans

On 29 October 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had both at £23.61 for six, Dry Drinker both at £23.49 for six, and Wise Bartender single bottles of the Kriek at £4.50; those are affiliate links. For more from Belgium, see our guide to the best Belgian alcohol-free beer.

Facts checked against Lindemans’ own website, KBC, Made in, Krones, Beer Guild, the World Beer Awards 2026 winners list (hosted by Portugal Resident), Craft Zero, Alcoholvrij Bierhuis, The Alcohol Free Co, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender, 31 October 2026.