Hanssens Cassis

Brewed by Hanssens Artisanaal
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Dworp, Belgium

Thanks Larry for being able to get this for me. I broke it out to celebrate my lady’s birthday. It pours with no head but a nice purple/pink/reddish color. Aroma is light apple, light acetone, and some cork and wood. It also seems like heat coming off, not alcohol but a warming spiciness in there. Flavor is more of a lambic with earthy sourness and a bretty backbone. No real berry flavor, just some in the burps I have. It has a pretty flat body akin to an unblended lambic almost. That weird part of the aroma definitely comes out at the end of the beer as well. If I were attribute something to the cassis in the flavor it would not be sweet but just an earthy, green, skin aspect.
375mL cork and wire, New Belgium round goblet glass.

Bottle. Pours clear ruby with a spare, fizzy, white head, diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is average malt (hay, bread), light hop (flowers), heavy yeast (horse blanket, barnyard) with bandage, medicine, currants, and cellar. Medium bodied, slick texture, light carbonation, and a tart-dry finish. Long duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity, and heavy sourness. This one seemed less tart and acidic than expected with heavy yeasty overtones.

37.5 cL bottle, courtesy of KimJohansen. Pours dark red with a fully gone head. Smooth, acidic and cassic acidic aroma. Acidic and fruity cassic flavoured. Distinct sourish and yet crisp fruity flavoured into the far finish. Lovely acidic and berry fruity finish.

(Draught) Pours a reddish violet body with no head. Aroma of black currants, balsamic vinegar, and subtle horse blanket. Flavor of black currants, earthy/leafy, vinegar, and light wood.

A Mes rate. Barrel at the Weekend of Tarts.
A very clean blood red colour. Cassis syrup, slight nail polish, great fruit just slightly astringent. Again, a little too acid to really get excited about. A very clean finish with plenty of length. Really good but cassis is not usually my thing.

Draught at Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation
Deep red, clear body. Acidic aroma of cherries, red wine, port, black currant, strawberries, ... Acetic heavily sour, lightly sweet flavour. Quite well balanced.

deep red, small white head. aroma is mouldy, slight berryiesh, flavor is based in sourness, some acidity, some fruits, actually very nice, the fruits does not appear fresh, but the flavor is very good

Bottle. Clear red coloured with a small white head. Light acidic aroma of barnyard and berries. Light acidic flavour of barnyard and berries. Tart finish.