About
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.
9.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
75cl bottle at 't Brugs Beertje Brugge. Bought by a guy at next table.jazy orange amber colour lasting white bubbles. Aroma is sour woody intense complex. Amazing. Again makes you weep. The wood the lemon. Flowers bit subtle flower perfume. The aroma is just perfect . Then you taste it and the flavour goes epic. Perfect carbonation. Subtle lemon wood. Flower meadows. Citrus. I am out of words. Yikes.
Tried
from Bottle
at
't Brugs Beertje
on 02 May 2026
at 16:35
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
375mL bottle, pours a clear golden with a medium white head. Aroma has plenty of leather, moderate barnyard funk, lemon tang, and some mildew. Flavour has plenty of lemon tang, old furniture, some mildew, gentle funk, a touch of leather, and very gentle acidity. Not the deepest funk character, nor much acidity (especially compared to Hanssens’ standard), but very well-constructed and pretty elegant. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Etre Gourmet (La Cave à Bières - physical bottle shop)
on 28 Apr 2026
at 03:30
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
0,375l bottle at home. Bottled March 2024. yellow almost clear color, small white head. smells funky, earthy, hay, baby diaper, earthy. nice to very nice smell overall. full body, soft carbonation. tastes citric, earthy, herbal, hay, tobacco, nutty, walnuts, some oak, . finishes lightly dry and lightly sour with notes of hay, nutty and earthy notes. this is suprisingly good, sourness is quite blanced, a tad in the back, but overall quite good balance, overall very enjoyable to drink.
8, 7.5, 8.5, 8, 8
8, 7.5, 8.5, 8, 8
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2026
at 18:28
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Nice (old school) presentation with a paper wrapper around the bottle. Color: Clear golden, white head. Aroma: A lot of rural and moldy funk, fruity notes. Taste: Puckering tartness, vinegar, quite strong rural and moldy funk, oak wood, fruity grapefruit, lemon, green apple. Bit foamy mouthfeel. Typical Hanssens. Too acidic for me, personally.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Prik & Tik De Bierhal
on 18 Mar 2026
at 20:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
0,375l bottle at home. Bottled 11/2022. amber clear color, medium big white head. smells funky, earthy, herbal, hay, peppery, tobacco, nice to very nice smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes funky, citric, earthy, some hay, tobacco, bublegum, bit lactic, peppery. finishes dry and lightly sour with notes of hay, earthy and peppery notes. hmm, its a nice one, but not totally convincing for me. Love the hay notes, has a light sweetness to it, that hides the underlying sourness pretty well, some rather sharp sour notes (volatile acids) come through though. Lacks some funk as well, a tad simple even. Overall sharp acids are a bit too noticeable.
8, 7.5, 6.5, 6, 6.5
8, 7.5, 6.5, 6, 6.5
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2026
at 13:04