Hanssens Cassis

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

Bottle thanks to Glouglouburp!
Dark red-purple with a thin white head. Nose of strong barn notes with beefy currant element and citrus bite, definitely a Lambic when compared side-by-side to Consecration, as a Sour. Flavor even more noticeably Lambic, heavy citrus and green fruit with some berry notes. Definitely thin, but not painfully so as some have noted. It beats up on Consecration, but it’s not remarkable.

At the RB Pgh gathering 12/09. Slight aroma of burnt rubber and horse. Purplish brown maroon with same color of sedimment floating around there. Sour and flat. Tart in a funky barn way. Like sucking the old juice out of wet wool blankets. Quite rude and interesting at the same time. Very unrefined and uncivilized. Its like somebody was shoveling horse manur around the open tank when it was fermenting. That burned sensation and ruffness lives on thru the finish, what an experience!

Thanks Frylock! Pours a grape pop purple with no head. APpears to be entirely flat. Nose is lemony lambic goodness, funk, wood, some olive brine, berry fruitiness. Flavor is acidity, some fruit juice, more of that brine. The second bottle was way less briney than the second - and better for it!

375ml bottle Experimental Cassis: Magenta colored with no head whatsoever. Very nice aroma, leather, barnyard funk and acidic fruitiness. Totally still with a major acidic sourness. Underlying fruits, raspberries and currents beneath the overt sourness.

Bottle. listed as Hanssens Experimental.Pours an extremly flat deep purple red. Tart, musty, earthy, berry /currant. Flavor wasnt as sour or tart as imagined. Pretty easy drinking. Tamer flavor than expected. Nice complexity & flavor.

375 ml bottle, as Experimental Cassis. Pours a clear ruby-garnet body with zero head at all. Looks completely still in the glass. The nose is sour, dry, and dusty with some raw oak and tart seedy raspberries. The flavor is much more fruit forward than almost any other lLambic that I have had. Maybe because of it being really young? So juicy and jammy with the perfect acidity and sourness levels, dry and oaky on the finish. The mouthfeel isn’t quite still though, a little clingy and sweet up front with the oak and acidity drying things out on the back end. Very nice, a Lambic that doesn’t beat you over the head with acidity. I hope they bottle this regularly.

Surprised to find this recently. Pour is a murky reddish brown color with zero head. Might be good with a little more age on it as the palate flavors are a little out of whack. A bit of a pungent bitterness draws your attention from the rest of the fruity and general yeasty goodness here. Once you can get past that initial shock though this is a delightful drink. Aroma is pretty interesting with a bit of sweetness and some fruit. The fruit comes through to the flavor pretty nicely.

Bottle - 375mL corked and caged called Hanssens Lambic Experimental Cassis. Murky purplish-red pour. Only trace bubbles on the surface. Really no apparent carbonation of which to speak. Aroma is bitingly tart fruits, rotten berries, burnt rubber, lemon juice and wet earth. Musty basement in there as well. Taste is sour fruit, berries, sour cherry, lemon juice, vinegar/acetic acid, wet wood and damp basement. Light cat piss as well. Body is light and slick. No carbonation. Very astringent and acidic feel in the mouth. Bone dry towards the end as well. Ends with more sour fruit, rotten berries, lemon juice, acetic acid/vinegar, wet wood, cat urine and damp forest. Musty, old book as well. Very tasty. Lacking only carbonation which would have put this way over the top!