Hanssens Artisanaal

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

Established in 1871

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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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7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Creamy white fair mostly lasting head. Red colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy heavy kriek aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Long moderate bitter noce sour/kriek flavor. Creamy palate.
Tried on 19 Mar 2022 at 14:52

7/10
Tried from Bottle on 14 Mar 2022 at 23:33

8.4/10 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

8.2/10
World class beer. Classic gueuze style. Super tart, refreshing and crisp clean and so incredibly robust. Dulle Griet Gent
Tried on 16 Jan 2022 at 15:59

8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 6 Overall 8
(Bottle, 0.375 l - bottled on 04/2019, at Pikkulintu, 20211123) The beer poured deep ruby red and clear. No head. Aroma had cherries, wood, cinnamon and tartness. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were wood, cherries, vanilla, tartness, cinnamon, malts, sourness, and bitterness. Aftertaste had tartness, wood sourness and bitterness. A delicious and balanced tart brew.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Nov 2021 at 20:00

7/10
Tried from Bottle on 21 Nov 2021 at 13:37

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Strange one since the carbonation died, and may have introduced some other infection. Has elements of good lambic framboise with rich raspberry and grapefruit, lime. Skunky pickle at the end takes away from the beer though. Bottle.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Nov 2021 at 03:48

6/10
Tried on 06 Oct 2021 at 15:33

7.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
bottle labelled Hanssens Artisanal sinds 1896 Schararbeekse Kriek corked and caged 37.5cl bottle 6.5% dark red, not clear red, pink head. aroma is belgian sour lambic and cherries. Super clean belgian lambic aroma and then fruity natural cherries. This is an exceptionally good aroma, perhaps some faint phenolic notes otherwise just perfect. quite clean and simple. flavor is crazy sour, damped by a lot of cherry flavor. Not sweet, sour beer, sour cherries, You def. need to be into sour beer before being able to appreciate this one, but wow, it's good. I think we need to invent a new word to describe the level of sourness of this beer.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Sep 2021 at 15:32

8.4/10 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