Hanssens Artisanaal
Microbrewery
in
Dworp,
Flemish Brabant,
Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Hanssens Artisanaal
Established in 1871
Contact
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.
7.1/10
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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