Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
5/V/24 - 37.5cl bottle @ Toer de Geuze, BB: +20Y, bottled: III/2024 (2024-274) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!
Clear deep ruby red beer, practically no head. Aroma: nice, very intense cherry smell, cherry jam, some marzipan, a little bit oxidized. MF: soft to no carbon, medium body. Taste: intense cherries, very sour, some vinegar, funky, dry. Aftertaste: very sourish, vinegar, a bit oxidized, dry, lemony finish, pretty good stuff except for the vinegar.
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Süffiger und saurer Fruchtbeginn. Kirschen, Himbeeren, etwas Holz, zunehmend Essignoten. Frisch, leicht agressive Säure, natürlich, etwas ledrig, spritzig. Langer saurer Abgang. 8/11/12/11/8/11
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
11/3/2024. Bottle shared at 4TT. From Left Field Beer. As Hanssens Framboos Lambic. Pours clear pale red with minimal head. Aroma is tart raspberries, jammy, strawberries, woody, touch herbal, hedgerow. Nice tartness. Medium sweetness. Moderate body, a little syrupy, light carbonation. Quite likeable.
Fergus (31329) reviewed Oudbeitje Lambic from Hanssens Artisanaal 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
bottle from the cellar. Bottle is 10 years old. A clear reddish deeep orange coloured pour with a mellow loose off white head. Aroma is swet and tangy, jammy sticky strawberry, some funk, lacto, spicy strawberry. Intense strawberry jam even after 10 years. Flavour is composed of super sour, puckering, lemon juice, jammy strawberry, spicy lacto, Palate is semi sweet, spicy, mid pucker, mellow carbonation. Some acid burn in the finish. Lovey jammy strawberry even after 10 years.
tiong (21350) reviewed Cassis from Hanssens Artisanaal 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Rated at Ryyppyliiteri. Intensely sour and heavy with some cassis and blackcurrant notes. Funky and jammy
CoccoBill (10287) ticked Cassis from Hanssens Artisanaal 2 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
2016 bottle: Red with a trace soapy white head. Strong vinegar aroma. Flavor was strong vinegar, tannin and a hint of berry. Very flat. Long finish.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Succubus Oude Geuze from Hanssens Artisanaal 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
New geuze blended by Hanssens for their fellow villagers of the Boelekewis restaurant, constructed in December 2022 from lambics brewed at Boon and Lindemans. Big thanks to tderoeck for sharing! Snow white, moussy, opening head on an initially clear, warm orangey golden robe, turning into a misty apricot blonde as the bottle is emptied. Aroma of dusty attic, green gooseberries, apple vinegar, dried mushrooms, old wood, moss, dry leather, bitter garden herbs, stale sweat, unripe green kiwi, dry forest floor. Sharpishly tart, lemony onset, a tad acetic even, lots of unripe gooseberry, green plum and green apple astringency with lively carbonation - the sourness slightly reduced a bit further on by a ripe kiwi-like fruity sweetishness hidden within the sourness; this sourness, however, remains sharp and edgy throughout, piercing a bready core into a tannic finish with drying lactic acidity joining the sharper acetic aspect, but also earthy, musty, funky Brett effects. Altogether enjoyable geuze, even if a somewhat less 'neig' character could bring improvement (and this goes for many other Hanssens lambics today as well, I guess) - but who knows how this will evolve over time. Accomplished, in all, but a side by side tasting with Hanssens' own geuze could, perhaps, prove interesting. I should visit this Boelekewis restaurant one day - I heard a lot about it through the years, but have not made it there so far.
Robin Svensson (13124) ticked Oude Gueuze (2017) from Hanssens Artisanaal 2 years ago
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Succubus Oude Geuze from Hanssens Artisanaal 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
22/XII/23 - 37.5cl bottle as a gift, shared @ home, BB: +20Y, bottled: week 4, XI/2022 (2023-1191) Thanks to Dimitri for the bottle!
Clear orange gold beer, big aery irregular off-white head, a little stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: lemony, pretty fruity, grains, cookies, somewhat piny, herbal, funky touch. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: very sour start, lemony, some vinegar, a little metallic, sharp acidity. Aftertaste: vinegar sting, pretty sharp, dry, a little herbal, pretty funky, lemon juice, more acidity burning, gooseberries, some overripe kiwi, very dry finish.