Hanssens Artisanaal

Microbrewery in Dworp, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Hanssens Artisanaal

Established in 1871

Contact
Vroenenbosstraat 15, Dworp, 1653, Belgium
Description
Hanssens Artisanaal is the oldest independent geuze blender in the whole world. At Hanssens, no beer is actually brewed! Instead, they pursue a profession that was very important in the history of lambic style beers, they are solely blenders of beer.

Hanssens takes this a step further, and actually blends batches from different breweries in their area. This used to be a very common practice, but Hanssens is now the oldest remaining blender. They bring to this endeavor a variety of barrels, some up to one hundred years old, and a passion and a love for the tradition of Geuze and Lambics.

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6.9
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


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle Pours out a cloudy gold topped with a soap head. Aroma of sour and tart fruit along with some sweetness. Tast lots of tart again. Along with plenty of pucker.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Oct 2008 at 21:40


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

chiara schiuma non abbondante ma abbastanza persistente note acidule legno legermente citriche in bocca l’acidità non è elevata si ritrova il leggero citrico lattico un tocco di legno

Tried on 29 Sep 2008 at 15:47


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

375 ml bottle. Clear, dark red body with a thin, disappearing head. Aroma is an acidic sour, cellar note and cherry. Flavor is sour, acidic, cherry and dry, bitter wood. Very dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Sep 2008 at 03:40


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

375 ml bottle. Foggy orange body with a thin head. Aroma is sour fruity and a bit like old urine. Flavor is sour, rotten fruit and a bit sewer impression. Not as bad as it sounds like, but rather funky and unusual.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2008 at 15:52


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

375 ml bottle. Golden yellow body with a thin white head. Aroma is acid, fruity, mould, vinegar with cellar notes. Flavor is geuze representative, sour, vinegar, citrus fruity, traces of wood and horse blanket/barn. Quite delicious.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2008 at 15:39


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

Bottle at home ... light clear amber ... light sour and a hint of strawberry in nose ... little sweet with some acidity ... quite thin and not as much punch as id expeced ... still not my thing... Bottle at the bow bar... Hazy yellow.. Thin white lacing.. Soft earthy funk.. Light strawberry fruit nose soft strawberry.. Very acidic... Sharp.. definitely strawberry.. Earthy funk 2.7

Tried from Bottle on 17 Sep 2008 at 13:30


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle: Pours a hazy golden blonde with a modest off-white head that dissipated rather quickly. Aroma is rich with sour and tart fruitiness and barrel aged qualities. Almost intense enough to call pungent. Taste is a lip smacking, mouth puckering fruity tartness. Dry, without as much sweet. Has that vinous and barrel aged feel again. Very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2008 at 11:08


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle 375ml @ home.Clear light amber orange color with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy sour, acidic, strawberry, sweet, oak - wood. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate acidic with a long duration, and a dry finish. Very refreshing. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. (040708)

Tried from Bottle on 08 Sep 2008 at 02:37


6.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

(matured sample from the plastic barrel) Hazy, pale orange to golden colour with almost no head. Acidic and slightly malty nose with green apples, citrus, vinegar and light woody notes. Moderately acidic flavour, light bodied without carbonation. Dry and mild Lambic-character with a moderate fruitiness of citrus, apples and apricots; moderately acidic and slightly tart and woody finish (07.09.08).

Tried on 07 Sep 2008 at 15:08