Hanssens Artisanaal
Microbrewery
in
Dworp,
Flemish Brabant,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Hanssens Artisanaal
Established in 1871
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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.
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.
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bottle: Poured a light red/brown color lambic with no head or carbonation. Aroma of funk and horse blanket is quite strong with some very subtle strawberry in the back. Taste is mix of sour and funky lambic with an extra dose of horse blanket with some faint strawberry also noticeable. Not sure if this lack some aging or if the balance is wrong but definitely not one the best lambic fruit that I have tasted.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2006
at 14:39
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled, 37.5cl chamgagne-cork. Unclear, orange beer with some clouds and a nice white head. The nose is barnyard, apple, fruit, yeast, cellar and quite sour. Nice flavor with yeast, cellar, citrus and green apples. Quite astringent and fizzy in the mouth, with a long sour finish. Really lovely after 5 Swedish swills. Palate-cleaning. Rating: 7-4-7-4-15-3.7. (060824)
Bottle, 37.5cl corked. A hazy, orange beer with a white head. Horse blanket, some wheat and citrus in the aroma. The flavor is much the same, but the citrus and horse blanket are more evident than the wheat. Astringent, tart and citrusy. Plain lovely, more-ish and refreshing. (080926)
Bottle, 37.5cl corked. A hazy, orange beer with a white head. Horse blanket, some wheat and citrus in the aroma. The flavor is much the same, but the citrus and horse blanket are more evident than the wheat. Astringent, tart and citrusy. Plain lovely, more-ish and refreshing. (080926)
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2006
at 02:25
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Hazy golden/orangeish colour. Supersour nose along with some strawberries. Flavour is sour and fruityish/berryish. Very pleasant lamic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2006
at 03:28
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottled. Hazy nutbrown colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is sweet & sour and weak fruity. The flavour is dry and sour fruits abit yeast also. A real dry and sour lambic. Sour long aftertaste with some dark and dry fruity hints. Totally awesome.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2006
at 15:39
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Slightly hazy orange body with a small frothy white head. Sour fruit aroma. Puckering sour flavor, some fruity hints.
Tried
on 27 Aug 2006
at 00:05
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Slightly hazy light cherry color with a small frothy white head. Sour aroma with some cherry hints. Puckering sour flavor with some light cherry in the end.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2006
at 02:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Style 68/70 Bottle from beastiefan2k; Thanks for helping me find this! Blew the cork to the ceiling but the beer stayed put and didn’t foam, Poured down the glass side and got 1.5" beer and 5" of head, hazy gold with off white head, nose was slightly tart apricot and honey, flavor was just slightlt tart, not what I expected with 70% gueuze, it was fruity with spice and apricots.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2006
at 18:52
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours amber into a tumbler. Frothy, medium-sized off-white head. Mead and mold aromas. Tastes like a Chardonney-- and I don’t really like white wine. Most white wine-like of any beer.
Tried
on 27 Jul 2006
at 21:31
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Orange colour with no head. Aroma is fruity yeast and srrawberry. Flavour is strawberry, yeast, citrus and cellar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2006
at 23:37
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
First ratingInitial Rating Date: 7/15/2006Sampled from 37.5 cl bottle, courtesy of rickgordon. (From Swedish Systembolaget.)Shady orange color, no head what so ever, part from a few bubbles. Extremely complex scent. Sour, fruity, sweet chewing gum, it just goes on. Taste is sour, metallic, sweet chewing gum. Sour and sweet after taste. Very high palate. Very mature, most likely stored for a long time. It feels balanced in the taste.10/2/9/4/17=4.2Rerate375 ml bottle on January 8, 2011. BB 07/08/2027Thanks to Nisse666.Hazy straw yellow color, very small white head. Acidic, sour, stable scent. Acidic, strawberry taste. Fizzy mouthfeel, low bitterness.8/3/8/3/15=3.7Rerate37.5 cl bottle thanks to Ingo! Sampled on May 31, 2015.BB 07/08/2034.No pressure when opening the cork, no hizz, no head build up. Hazy golden color, no head. Acidic, fruity, funky scent. Tart, thin, glue, yeast, fruit peels, wheat dough taste. Really lacks in taste from missing CO2. Very flat mouthfeel, total absence of CO2. No bitterness.8/3/5/2/10=2.8
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2006
at 05:03