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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7.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
37.5cl bottle - Pours a hazy pinkish red colour with virtually no head. Aroma is tart cherries, wood and light vinegary notes. A moderately sweet and tart taste, sour cherries, woody and cider vinegar flavours with a drying acidic finish.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2020 at 17:51

7/10
Ruikt naar aardbeien, framboos. Smaakt zuur, fruitig, rood fruit. Beetje munt. Net iets te scherp.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Oct 2020 at 16:14

6.3/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 7 Overall 5.5
Bottle shared at tasting. Autumnal reddish color, no head. Aroma is red fruit, sour red fruit. Flavor is red fruit, pretty sour to acidic. Too sour for me to really like.
Tried on 10 Oct 2020 at 14:17

8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
37,5cl bottle from Rob the Gourmets’ Market in Brussels. F: no real. C: dark coppery, hazy. A: a lot of fruitiness, bit acetic sour fruity, strawberries, raspberries, sour cherries, red currants, bit old socks. T: acetic sour fruity, woody, strawberries, raspberries, bit brett, black berries, low if any carbonation, bit too sour to my taste but very nice fresh fruity feeling also so almost great beer for the style, fully enjoyed.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2020 at 18:00

Quite nice but a hint heavy on the vinegar. Thanks for the sample Dale!
Tried from Bottle at Haket on 24 Sep 2020 at 21:18

8.5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
Bottle from Beers of Europe and drunk at home. Peachy-pink colour, hazy and flat. Musty aroma with wafts of strawberry aroma, wild herbs, dried grass, light must. Taste is intensely tart with more underripe strawberry, tart grape and blueberry, kumquat peel. Long sourness in the finish. Oily body, no carbonation. Delicious.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2020 at 18:40

7/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle from Dranken Vandewoude and drunk at home. Pours with little if any carbonation dark red and no real sediment. Some red fruits on aroma some sourness. Yes a Flemish red. red fruits red currants sour cherry good level of sourness. smells of authentic fruit. decent.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2020 at 17:23

8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle. Hazy red color with white head. Aroma is super ribisl, raspberries, all the red fruits. Taste is red fruits, so intensely fruity, super dry, almost too tart, but still solid. Mineraly mouthfeel, flat. I like!
Tried from Bottle on 07 Aug 2020 at 17:10

8/10
Zero carbonation (really nothing) but besides that very nice sour/raspberry taste
Tried from Bottle on 06 Aug 2020 at 19:07

8/10
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jun 2020 at 17:19