Oude Kriek
Hanssens Artisanaal in Dworp, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Kriek Regular|
Score
7.44
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Each batch has 70kg of black Belgian cherries ber 600 liter barrel.
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7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2022
at 23:33
8.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
375ml bottle from hopt.it, France. Pours opaque red, medium hazy, with no foam. Aroma is aggressively funky, vinous, acetic. Body is average, with moderate carbonation. Astringency is rather aggressive, even a little oily. Taste is aggressively sour, even acetic to quite an extent. Final is quite challenging, with the last, aggressive boom of astringency. Overall, a masterpiece!
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2022
at 19:49
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours red with basically no head. Aroma is complex cherry, rich and fruity, light funk, vinous with an umami bite. Medium body. Light sweetness, intense acidity and light funk. Rich and with lots of cherry, umami, vinous. Lovely. The Schaerbeekse kriek is slightly more acidic, and has that special note, but this is just as good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2021
at 19:59
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
37.5cl bottle - Pours a hazy pinkish red colour with virtually no head. Aroma is tart cherries, wood and light vinegary notes. A moderately sweet and tart taste, sour cherries, woody and cider vinegar flavours with a drying acidic finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2020
at 17:51
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2020
at 18:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours hazy red with thin white edges. Aromas of strong clean cherries up front, some earthy and stable-like notes, slight vinegar and tartness. Taste is tart but mature, sweet cherries, english jelly sweets, leather, dry woody notes and vinegar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 17:20
Didn't survive that well. Not completely rotten, but not very pleasant either. Papery, some funky cherry, bit of sourness. Fun to have tried, but no.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2019
at 22:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
37,5cl bottle (6,5%, bottled 02/2018) from Rob the Gourmets’ Market in Brussels. F: no real, thin pink film, quick gone. C: dark ruby red, hazy. A: sour dark cherries, blackcurrants, bit vinous sour fruity, funky. T: medium body, sour dark cherries, dark berries, quite strong acidity for me to be fully enjoyed, puckering, funky, bit woody, almost no carbonation, good not great for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2019
at 17:16
8.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from Ohtsuki. Red copper coloured and with not much head or sparkle. Aroma is very funky and sour, vinegar, cherries in the background, but dominated by mustiness and sourness. Maybe even a bit sweaty! Taste is lovely. Initial sour punch and then slowly fades and merges with the sharp cherry taste. Slightly floral too. Pretty interesting. Soft in the mouth, with not much carbonation, but very smooth. Great stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:02
8.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Found in a lost corner in my cellar. I bought this bottle in 1993 at Hanssens itself. Dusty aroma, with oak, caramel, porto and cherries. The taste is a very pleasant surprise. The mousse has almost gone, the years have rounded and eased the sourness. Still a good cherry taste, some syrupy sweetness, honey and caramel. An outstanding example of a well-ripened old kriek (4.0: 7/3/9/4/17). Re-rate, fresher bottle (2000 probably)Strong cherry aroma with lemon and oak. Very sour, but also with a good deal of cherry and some almond bitterness. Lemon. Dry mouthfeel. Great kriek lambic, one of my all time favorites. Another re-rate: somewhat citric cherry aroma and flavor. Cheesecake. Firm cherry character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:08