Hanssens Oudbeitje

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

375mL bottle, 2006 vintage, courtesy of acrdz. Thanks, Mike! Pours a hazy, golden-orange color; mostly headless. Lots of funky strawberries, tart citrus, and funk in the aroma; very pleasant, fruity, and funky. Medium mouthfeel: relaxed carbonation; plenty of funk, strawberries, and tart citrus; not overly tart, but very nice fruit character and reasonably dry; solid, tasty strawberry lambic. Medium finish: tart strawberries and citrus and a touch of dust.

(3/7/08) Bottle at ’t Brugs Beertje in Bruges. Best before 8/18. Slightly hazy golden color with no head. Aroma is quite basic-lambic-like with some citrus and very subdued notes of strawberry. The strawberries are more apparent in the flavor but still non-dominating. Medium-bodied. A good lambic but not a whole lot of strawberry character.

Pours an absolutely still deep golden orange. Aroma of lightly sweet and fruity strawberries with a good amount of leathery barnyard complexity. Body starts with about average viscosity and a good balance of sweet and tart fruitiness. Finishes smooth and slightly puckering. A nice fruit lambic that just needs some more carbonation.

Wife brought this one back from Wi. Limited Edition year 2006. Aroma well stale musty funky aroma mabe found in on hundred old houses or church basements. Yellow body with thin white head that fizzed out rather quickly. Flavor is tart and sour like most lambics are some strawberry lemonade carbination. Flavor was like fruit was an additive blended in but what do I know. Even though the sour and tartness are somewhat overbarring att times, aroma has you wanting to finish this one alone.

Vintage 2000 bottle. Smell is not very strong. A little bit of a funky aroma, very lightly fruity. Color is that of straw, the beer is very cloudy with almost no head at all. Taste follows as very similar to the scent, with the exception of a very strong oaky ad sour flavor. The fruitiness is subdued and nice, it reminds me a lot of wine with light apple and strawberry flavors. Palate is smooth, ad once again winey. A very good beer.

375ml bottle @biergasthof schiffner. 5 years old. Primary aroma of wild strawberry leaves, which widen and soften over gooseberry and vinegar to an almost caramel scent over time., It’s a headless beauty but nice amber in colour. Just gorgeous in taste, mainly mouthwatering lactic acid. perfect in the sun, even in winter, as it was the case with me...

No head retention. Smooth, sour, definite strawberry aroma. Round flavor. Thick, serious sourness.

375ml bottle (Erasmus, Bruges)
Golden, flat. Strawberry and sour aroma, hint of caramel on warming. Soft palate. Woody, bitter, some honey, and a hint of perfumed soap in the taste - but the overall sensation is that of the sourness and just an aged feel. Of course, there’s some strawberry in the taste too, but it’s not that dominant at all, and quite subtle.