Hanssens Oudbeitje

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

Thanks a lot for sharing Mike! Yellow body, with no head to speak of. Looks like a white wine. Sour strawberries in the nose, with grapes, wood, and yeast.Sweet-tart strawberries, grapey, icewine-ish. Dry, smooth finish. A good beer.

bottle. 2002. clear golden with no head. the aroma is surprisingly full of strawberries considering it’s age among a woody earthiness. typical dry flavour though it’s very well counteracted by the sweet strawberries. a little bit of sweetness left in the finish. very tasty and refreshing.

Label says released in 2000, but doesn’t seem to have a date otherwise: Pour is hazy orangey amber with no head whatsoever...seems rather still...smell is horseblanket and straw with some citric tartness and a delicate wisp of strawberry...still mouthfeel, but it suits it...taste is sugary sweet at first...then it turns a little sour, but still some cloying sweetness...seems a touch syrupy, so if maybe it had some life to it that would break the syrup aspect of it up...under-rated it seems...

Had this at Vail Beer Fest. 2-oz. sample from a snifter. Beer poured a light, murky gold color with plenty of sandy-looking yeast in it. No head. The aroma was plenty sour and heavily yeasty with notes of barnyeard, horseblanket and a tart protein-like note in the back. It’s too interesting to be off-putting, too strange to charm me. There were light hoppy aromas of resin and pine and a moderate note of lemon. I’m not finding any strawberry, though. The flavor begins lightly sweet and moderately sour and bitter and finishes with a short, moderately bitter-moderately sour feel. The palate is medium, the texture is watery and the carbonation is lively.

2000 bottle. First Lambic - Fruit ever... after almost 600 ratings... LOL. Clear golden body with absolutely no head, even after I started to pour it violently. Strawberries dominate an aroma that also has some acidity, barnyard and wood. Flavor is the same, sour and tart. Better than the fake Lambic crap I’ve had... can’t remember the name but you probably know what I’m talking about.

Bottle
Hazy pink-golden, no head. Interresting aroma: Strawberries behind a veil of leather, a strong cognacy vinegar note and a mineralic note. The vinegar-leather-strawberry combo is evident in the flavor as well, horse-blanket, gets more fruity as it warms up - other estery notes, strawberry slips into the background, fizzlesticks in the back of the throat. Overall light on the palate, light sparkly mouthfeel, dry but not puckering exit.

My girlfriend bought this for us to share. She didn’t like it so I got to finish the bottle. Not at all sweet like so many of this style. Complex aroma. There is some strawberry; but it is light and I might not have noticed it if the label didn’t tell me to look for it. There is also mold, barnyard, yeast, and citrus. The flavor is very sour, with grapefruit, strange yeast and funkiness. Some moldy cheese. Dry finish with even more horseblanket and barnyard.

375 ml bottle (2000) purchased I can’t remember where...Premier Gourmet maybe? Soft pop when the cork comes off, and a beautiful barnyardy scent lightly softened by berries erupts quickly....in the glass it’s light amber with a smallish lasting head, quite clear and bubbly...a second nosing offers ripe strawberries and cream, light brett sourness and hints of apple....tasting, it’s remarkably refreshing, lightly sweet at first but bursting with sourness after a few seconds in the mouth, quite dry and cobwebby, with a leathery characteristic showing up in the retronasal after a few minutes...the finish is all sharpness, raw and unrestrained bitterness with fruit just lightly apparent, sour sour grapefruit much more than the sweet strawberries, almost an afterthought just there for extra complexity in this worthy effort...carbonation fairly low, and a slight syrupy quality is developing. Now I need a fresh one, and a 10-year-old to compare. A delight as it is though.