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

Bottle at Gainsbar. Aroma is strawberry, sourness. Nice sweet fruity smell. Taste is very sour at the start, then the strawberry comes in. Pretty nice, but it's a once a year beer I think as I am not sure how well the flavours combine for me.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle from Ohtsuki. Red copper coloured and with not much head or sparkle. Aroma is very funky and sour, vinegar, cherries in the background, but dominated by mustiness and sourness. Maybe even a bit sweaty! Taste is lovely. Initial sour punch and then slowly fades and merges with the sharp cherry taste. Slightly floral too. Pretty interesting. Soft in the mouth, with not much carbonation, but very smooth. Great stuff.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at home from Ohtsuki. Lovely light golden orange colour with small white bubbly head. Aroma is nicely sour, very fruity, slightly tropical but with grapefruit sharpness. Only light funkiness/earthiness, but definitely comes through. Taste is differently balanced, lots of sourness at the start, real slap in the face then fades into something more fruity. Lot more funkiness in the taste than the aroma. The finish is more sweet and some of the flat creaminess that I associate with gueuze. Further down the sour edge diminishes a little bit, but it still starts with a punch. Quite different and pretty interesting.

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

Sampled in between Ratebeer and Brewver, so not much specific notes. Very vinegar-like, such as to be expected by hanssens. Full fruityness as well.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle. Etre Gourmet. Ruby red. Light haze. Slim ring of off white head. Nose has cheap balsamic vinegar. Wet leather. Vimto cordial. Taste is sweet and super tart, harsh, acidic bitterness. Slick mouthfeel. Low carbonation. Innard stripping acidity. Balls to this. I should have known better. This is a slick, overly acidic, flabby mess of a beer. Awful.

Bottle. Pours red. Aroma and flavor are sour, acidic, vinegar, sour cucumber, strawberries. Overall: drinkable.

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

Corked bottle. Purple red color. Rubber, chocolate, cherry, blackberries, vinous notes and raspberries in the aroma. Very fruity. Low on carbon. Chocolate and oak next to the fruit. This is nice!

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

My 300th beer. Indeed a special one. Strawberries off course in both aroma and taste. Also citrus, vanilla and oak. Sour with still some sweetness left. Good, sour lambic, but not too complex, the strawberry dominates.

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

Earthy aroma with oak, ctrus and apple. Sour and vinous with apple flavors. Not as deep and complex as Girardin or Cantillon, but certainly a very good traditional geuze.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Found in a lost corner in my cellar. I bought this bottle in 1993 at Hanssens itself. Dusty aroma, with oak, caramel, porto and cherries. The taste is a very pleasant surprise. The mousse has almost gone, the years have rounded and eased the sourness. Still a good cherry taste, some syrupy sweetness, honey and caramel. An outstanding example of a well-ripened old kriek (4.0: 7/3/9/4/17). Re-rate, fresher bottle (2000 probably)Strong cherry aroma with lemon and oak. Very sour, but also with a good deal of cherry and some almond bitterness. Lemon. Dry mouthfeel. Great kriek lambic, one of my all time favorites. Another re-rate: somewhat citric cherry aroma and flavor. Cheesecake. Firm cherry character.