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==Lambic outside of Belgium?==
In the EU, lambic must be a spontaneously fermented product. That means that any beer receiving any pitched microbes (from labs cultures or bottle dregs) cannot be called lambic. While lambic has no legal protection outside of the EU and EU laws do not give lambic a regional designation (unlike other alcoholic products such as Champagne and Kölsch), many brewers outside of Belgium chose not to call their spontaneous beers lambic out of respect for the Belgian lambic tradition. Some brewers choose names alluding to lambic such as Sonambic or label their spontaneously fermented beers with the term Coolship to convey to consumers that their lambic-inspired beers aare spontaneously fermented and follow parts of the lambic tradition without actually using the terms lambic or gueuze.
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