Hanssens Artisanaal in Belgium - Reviews, Beers, Location & Contact

Hanssens Artisanaal

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

Established in 1871

Contact

Vroenenbosstraat 15, Dworp, 1653, Belgium

+32(0)2/ 380 31 33

hanssens.artisanaal@proximedia.be

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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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Leighton (35391) reviewed

V.S.O.R. Very Special Old Red from Hanssens Artisanaal

6 years ago

5.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5

Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up online. Pours clear reddish purple with a bubbly, short-lived white head. Intense, aggressive, has some nice tart berry character, a little drying wood, but overbearing acidity. Light to medium bodied with spritzy carbonation. Sharp finish, lots of acidic bite, some throat burn. Kind of immediately gets your stomach grumbling when it gets down there. Hard to drink much of this beer.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Jan 2020 at 23:31