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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8.5

8,5 for the bottle with new label cassis lambic I drank at tour de geuze 2019, I had bottle experimental cassis in previous years.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Jan 2020 at 17:41


4.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

375mL bottle, pours a murky rusted red with almost no head. Nose brings out an interesting melange of red berries, with gentle balsamic, and no signature lambic funk. Flavour is enamel-strippingly sour, with intense balsamic, very sour fruits, and light phenols. Really? This is not Hanssens' typical quality -- harsh, insanely sour, and enamel-stripping. This is very bad.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Dec 2019 at 19:32


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle at Pigs ear 2019. Deep deep red colour thin pink head. Sour aroma. Then the fruit bursts in the mouth like blood from an artery. Its pin you to the bench fruity good. Intense. Beer of the day. No doubt. The intense cherry is great. Some salt and vinegar crisps underneath but sooooooooo goooooooood loved it.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Dec 2019 at 15:43


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

Bottle at home. Almost clear ruby with no head. Lots of fresh jammy fruits, strawberries, raspberries and some cherries, I don’t really get much blueberries. Dank funk, old wood, soft yoghurt and glue. Balsamico, lemon juice. Very sour, light sweet. Medium bodied with no carbonation. Damn this is sour! Not as ridiculous as some Hanssen, but this seems like it’s just no healthy. Belgians making fun of US spurs should drink this, it’ll literally wipe the smile of their faces and remove their teeth in the process.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2019 at 22:05



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

2018 bottle. Lovely nutty cherry taste. Great stuff

Tried from Bottle on 28 Nov 2019 at 04:04


7

Tried on 25 Nov 2019 at 17:48


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

Bottle @ Oluf Bagers Gade, 5 kilo. Pours deep reddish with a very small pinkish head. Massive acetone, wood and vomit. Sweet red fruit. Musty matured. Quite intense. Thankfully there is no burn when swallowing. Quite heavy still but very Hanssens like.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Nov 2019 at 18:42


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Poured from a 375 ml bottle. Aroma is very medicinal with lots of cherry and lighter berry notes. Faint oak notes and low phenolic mustiness. Pours a purple-red with a small, faint, thin, slightly pink head that recedes quickly and disappears. No lacing or legs. Flavor is rather acidic with a faint sweetness. Fairly strong fruit notes and faint oak notes. Lots of cherry notes and a bit more berry notes than in the aroma. A bit less medicinal notes than in the aroma. Light phenolic notes. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with low carbonation. Low, but present astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, an alright beer but it's overly acidic and lacking lambic funk. The fruit is also rather strong and a bit medicinal in the aroma.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Nov 2019 at 06:30


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Cloudy ruby, soapy pink head. Qiute a bit of stale dried cherries, lacto. The taste has the sour cherries, lots of acetic more than lacto. Too aggressive.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Nov 2019 at 08:03