Hanssens Oudbeitje

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

Limited edition 2000 release. 375ml. cork finished bottle. Orange gold color, very cloudy. Small to no head. Aroma is fruity and funky barnyard and must. Touch of berry. A medium bodied fruit lambic. LOTS of funk, must and barnyard flavors are sort of balanced by a sweet berry fruitiness. Little to no carbonation. Lots of fruitiness, lots of funk and they sort of don’t mix to well. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is crisp and dry. Aftertaste is tart.

Bottled. Cloudy amber coloured with a small white head. Acidic aroma with notes of barnyard, woods and berries. Acidic flavour of barnyard with notes of wood and strawberries.

Bottle. 2000 Vintage (says limited edition, but aren’t all beers). Copper colored with no head. Light fruitiness (berry) and tart aroma with some dustiness - at least it starts out ok. Some strawberry flavor then a harsh tart/vomit/chemical flavor. Just not drinkable. It has a mouthfeel showing some chucnkiness. My guess is a bad bottle, and wow was this one bad.

This is probably a beer you either love or hate. I tended to like it. Chalky, berry nose though not overwhelmingly fruity. Gold color with no head. Sweet juice-like tastes give way to a powerful sting of tartness in the back of the throat. It’s like someone is reaching into my stomach and pulling bile up my throat. Very unusual effect. Maybe that’s why I like this. Interesting, sour and unbalanced, really, but in a controlled unbalanced. The brewer’s intent is clear, I think, and overall this works.

Deep orange color, no head. Bubblegum strawberry nose - also a very intense strawberry taste, sour like berry vinegar. Very odd - the strawberry taste wasn+t off my likeing as it tasted like molded strawberries. Dry and chalky finish.

Bottle, St Albans Beer Festival 2005. Copper colour. Sour beer, quite nice fruit and a bit of rubber. Nicely sour and intense lambic

very pungent nose, tad bit sour and earthy. a pinkish gold appearance with a head roughly the same thickness as a peice of paper. flavor much like the nose, tart, sour, earthy, but little to no strawberry anywhere to be found, save the faintest (though enjoyable) finish on the back of the tongue.

Hazy golden colour. No head at all. Sour, yeasty and fruity aroma with some rubbery notes. Grapefruit, strawberry, bubblegum flavour. Sparkling mouthfeel. Very fruity rasp/strawberry finish. Long aftertaste that just won´t leave your mouth.