Hanssens Oude Gueuze

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

Now this is a perfect example of what I consider to be beer. Big, bad, and stimulating! Impressions start with the chapagne bottle then follows with an unrefined backstall aroma that cannot be described. Big fermenting fruit from an old open barrel in the barn. Looks like a cloudy american lager or darker wheat. Really nice creamy carbonation. Oh my, what a taste impact! Not girlie sweet in any way though wonderfully tart. Hides the alky content rather well, it’s more like drinking rotting fermenting something, but in an enjoyable way. Just plain easy to drink and fun to be with. DEE LISH! Finish is a quarky mackentosh fruit peel quagmire.

The King of Farmhouse Funk. Delicious gueze, heavy on the soul. Scrumptious and appealing on many levels. Not a shy brew: as acidic as can be and not ashamed of it. Hanssens is personally one of my favorite lambic makers because of the no-nonsense lip-pickering madness they produce.

Magnum, 1997 or 1998-ish, courtesy of Casey at Max’s. Thanks!! Pours a hazy, medium straw color; off-white head with fine-bubbled lacing. Loads of horseblanket, cheese, lemon and funk in the aroma; average tartness and acidity; slightly mouthwatering, with just a ton of horseblanket and cheese. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: creamy, slightly viscous and lemony tartness at the edges of the tongue; has some weight to it, more so than something like Drie Fonteinen Gueuze but with similar levels of acidity and tartness; not bone-dry, but still puckering and ends on the dry side; some white grapes, lemons, and funk in the finish. This has held up beautifully.

Bottle. Unclear light to medium yellow orange color with a small, virtually none, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy, sour, acidic, wood, grapefruit. Flavor is moderate acidic and sour with a average to long duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat. (230907)

Pours a clear light amber color with little head. Aroma is moderately funky with some honeyed sweetness. The funk seemed to be almost overpowered by the saccharine quality to the aroma. The taste has an aggressive tartness that smacks you at the finish. Still, the funk here doesn’t seem as multi-dimensional as the more reputed gueuzes.

Bottle. Murky orange colour with gassy white head. Taste is tarte with lemon / lime / grapefruit. Aroma is fairly sour with acidic finish.

Bottled. An unclear orange beer with a thin light yellow head. The aroma is sweet with notes of wood and grapefruit, while the flavor is acidic with notes of wood. The acidity burns slightly in the throat.

Thanks to brewfiend for sharing! The beer was cloudy yellow-orange with light foam and some sediment. It had a sour earthy aroma and flavor. Mildly acidic finish.