Mead the Gueuze
Hanssens Artisanaal in Dworp, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Lurgashall WinerySour / Wild Beer Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.93
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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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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle from Malt & Vine. Nasty crusties where the cork meets the bottle. I’m thinking this has been around awhile. Cork hit the ceiling with a loud pop. Pours hazy honey color with a frothy off-white head that goes down in a strange process. Aroma is something like honey vinegar. Medium body with frothy carbonation. Flavor is medium sour, somewhat funky, but relatively smooth. Brett the way I understand gueuze should be. This stuff is deceptive. It drinks like there’s no tomorrow. Aroma is starting to smooth out. Not getting lots of honey here, but something like wood is coming out. Burps excellently. Finish is relatively clean. I’m finally beginning to get something like sweet, but it’s very subdued. Get this if you can.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2009
at 17:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle courtesy of hellbilly. Thanks! Pours with a still body and no head. Beneath is a hazed burnt gold body. Aroma is floral with honey and mead notes, some attic, light barnyard and acidic lemon. Taste is weird and funky with vinegar notes, acidic, tannic and woody. Light carbonation. I like both the gueuze and mead slightly better by themselves.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2009
at 23:07
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
courtesy of Chris. Pours cloudy golden with thin white head. Funky vinegar aroma. Taste is funky with light honey palate. Interesting mix, overall funkiness and sour with some lingering sweetness.
Tried
on 22 Feb 2009
at 11:23
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 375ml.Unclear light to medium yellow orange color with a average, fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is citrus - lemon, barnyard, honey. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet, light to moderate acidic and vinegar notes with a long duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat. [260908]
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2009
at 07:55
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Hazy yellow with medium off white head. Sour aroma with brett, barnyard and hints of mead. Sour flavour with barnyard, leather, wood and honey notes. Sour finish. Cheers yespr!
Tried
on 21 Dec 2008
at 06:15
6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Bottle 37,5 cl) Courtesy of yespr. Pours a hazy golden with a small, off-white head leaving laces. Very tart Brett aroma. Medium body, tart Brett accents with a discreet sweetness and an earthy edge. Finishes smooth and soft. Quite a well made blend. 201008
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2008
at 11:52
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
37.5 cL bottle. pours hazy orange with a fizzy white head. Dry and cheesy wooden aroma with a distinct yeasty note. Dry and wooden meady flavour with a distinct sulphorish note. Dry and citric dry finish. Nice and smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2008
at 02:20
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bottle courtesy of Beerlando: Poured a golden color beer/mead with a small bubbly head with no retention or lacing. Aroma consists of sweet notes courtesy of the mead with some sour notes from the lambic with some weird funky notes. Taste is also a weird and unique mix between some sweet mead notes mix in with some sour notes form the lambic with some funky barnyard notes. Full oily texture body with some limited carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Interesting as a one-off but not something I would drink regularly.Bottle courtesy of Beerlando: Poured a golden color beer/mead with a small bubbly head with no retention or lacing. Aroma consists of sweet notes courtesy of the mead with some sour notes from the lambic with some weird funky notes. Taste is also a weird and unique mix between some sweet mead notes mix in with some sour notes form the lambic with some funky barnyard notes. Full oily texture body with some limited carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Interesting as a one-off but not something I would drink regularly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2008
at 07:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home with Tom ... Thanks to TOM for this ... Golden orange ... Honey and geuze nose ... odd mix ... but well worth trying ... def sweet mead tone ... with some sharp but not quite got the guezeness ... score dont represnt how worth it is trying. but probably only the once.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2008
at 13:02
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a golden orange color with a large fizzy head. Has a sour tasrt barnyard aroma with some weak hints of honey. Tart fruity flavor with hints of alcohol and honey. Tasrt dry fruity finish with some warming hints, also hints of mead in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2007
at 06:02