Hanssens Artisanaal Mead the Gueuze

Mead the Gueuze

 

Hanssens Artisanaal in Dworp, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

Collab with: Lurgashall Winery
  Sour / Wild Beer Regular Out of Production
Score
6.93
ABV: 7.9% IBU: - Ticks: 53
70/30 blend of three year old Hanssens Gueuze and Lurgashall Mead from England. It was released around Christmas 2001 in 375ml bottles.
 

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle, 375 ml at charity tasting Wien 2022. Shared with Miro B, Werckmeister and others. 2014 vintage. Clear dark gold with no head. Dusty, honey, sweetish, soft texture. Medium sourness. Interesting.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Mar 2023 at 18:02


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

0,375l bottle shared at charity tasting at home. golden clear color, no head. Smells honey, dusty, bit funky, dried fruits. rather decent smell. medium body, soft carbonation. Tastes honey, dusty, funky, bit sherry, dried fruits. Finishes super balanced, with some sour, some bitter and some swee notes, honey, sherry and dust notes. suprisingly good, i rather dig it. Honey with some funky & bitter notes

7,6.5, 7.5, 7, 7.5

Tried from Bottle on 18 Sep 2022 at 08:37


6

Tried on 06 Oct 2021 at 15:33


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

The bottle opens with a loud bang and the cork 10 feet away. Honey color, cloudy. Honey aroma; citrus and oak on the background. An oaky bitterness in the flavor with some citrus. Very alcoholic with a honey afteratste. I love Hanssens heuze, but mixed with mead it's just a bad marriage. Still an interesting experiment that deserves a good rating.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:07


5.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

37.5cl Bottle, back in 2010, RBESG Rome, at 4:20 courtesy of Alex. Alcoholic funky sour ale with some Bretty honey notes, anyway this was really not for me.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Oct 2017 at 05:03


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

2007 bottle at Sub Zero
Moldy cork, poured cloudy golden small white head, some lacing. Aroma of sawdust, woody and vanilla. Taste of vanilla, malty, cheese and honey with a dry finish
Nice

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2015 at 21:54


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Blend of Hanssens Oude Gueuze with an English mead, intended for export but not produced anymore today. Off-white, thick but quickly collapsing head, deep hazy golden blonde robe. Typical lambic aroma of lemon, sweat, sulphur, wood with difficult to identify, spicy accents (cloves, wormwood) and a faint hint of bitter honey. Complex lambic funkiness in the taste paired with a dry, grapefruity and spicy bitterness with a subtle honey sweetishness in between, only coming to glory when the deposit is added - apparently the honey component was lurking in the bottom of the bottle. Strange product, difficult to rate, not your average honey beer. Glad I tried this.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Sep 2014 at 09:31


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

How: Bottle.
Where: Akkurat, Stockholm.
Appearance: Hazy pale yellow colour with a white head.
Aroma: Honey, tart, sour.
Body: Light body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Sour honey.

Tried from Bottle on 17 May 2014 at 08:57


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

Stark karbonisierter Antrunk, wenig säuerlich. Angenehm würzig und wärmend, der Alkohol ist nicht erkennbar. Die Karbonisierung stört etwas, wenig bitter, komplex mit minimal hopfigen Noten. Sehr gut. 12/13/12/12//12

Tried on 16 May 2014 at 23:54


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

2007 vintage, lists 7.9% abv. Cages cork top. Cork slides out easily, but the pour still has some fizz, so I hope it’s still okay. Shows a slightly ruddy and brassy yellow, with lots of bubbles clinging to the side. Smell has a little sweetness to it, then the tart and barnyard smell of a lambic.And, somehow, a bit "dusty" perhaps this is the impression from contact with the cork (though I’ve kept it upright all this time). Taste is kind of cheesy and again "dusty." Carries much more gueuze character than mead. I have to admit I have not acquired the taste for this—and no need to since they stopped making it—but it’s still somewhat pleasant and I may be happier to say I’ve had a chance to drink one of these than yet another overbearing barrel-aged imperial stout.

Tried on 03 Jan 2014 at 21:25