Hanssens Oude Gueuze

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

Hazy gold foamy head. Cheese, funk and barnyard. Flavor is extremely sour! Great flavor with nice syrupy mouthfeel.

750ml Bottle: Tart aroma of lambic, oak, wood, light funk, light vinegar, acid, and epoxy. Poured orange in color with a small, white head that lasted throughout. Very hazy. Not sparkling. Flavor is medium tart and heavily sweet. Tastes of lambic, wood, berries, fruit, oak, slight caramel, slight vinegar, acid, citrus, and slight funk. Light to medium body. Dry texture. Average to lively carbonation. Tart, sweet, wood, and fruit finish is dry.

Pours a golden amber with virtually no head. aroma is a little funky with tart fruit and some hay aromas. flavor is sweet and tart and includes some hay, vinger, oak, chesse, yeast. the fruity flavors include tart apple, lemon, and orange. has a medium mouthfeel with a crisp and dry finnish with a aftertaste that tastes like orange juice. I enjoyed this one very much.

Bottle (2000 - 9 years old). Ap: Golden amber. No head. Looks funky. Ar: Sweet actually, some kind of sour bitterness (vineager maybe). Fla: Sour red berries. Incredible fruity. No real tartness in the finish, some kind of bitterness though. Ov: Quite sophisticated. Not as funky as one would think (maybe due to the ageing).

Medium cloudy amber, no head. Aroma is weird like sour bandaids but flavor is surprisingly sweeter but still tart. Flavor: sweet hay that horses have walked all over with poopy horse-shoes but weirdly ina very delicious and refreshing way. Crisp mouthfeel and slightly dry finish with an aftertaste like orange juice.

Bottle. The Rover. Gothenburg. Hazy golden orange colour with a white head. Aroma: Bretty funky cheese up front, also some sourness and lemons. Taste: Heavy sourness and tartness, sour green apples, lemons. Also some funk, cheese and oak. But mostly very sour. Much more sour then the aroma indicates. Great if you are a fan of sour beers.

[2109-20090421] 12.7floz bottle. Mild citrus orange rind and burnt popcorn yeast aroma. Hazy, light orange body with a medium-lasting creamy off-white head. Fruity orange peel yeast and mild popcorn flavour. Quite sour medium body. Very enjoyable, out of the blue.
(c/o blankboy, w/ him, garthicus, jerc)

Bottle, from John’s Grocery, Iowa City, Iowa. Oh my my. It has been far too long since I’ve had a proper, bracingly sour beer. When I bought this, the guy behind the counter said, "Just so you know--this isn’t a sweet lambic." Bless your heart kid, I know. Shiny gold pour, good persistent white head. Oh wow, what a beautiful aroma. The cool earthy smell of walking through a field of tall grass on an early fall morning. Fresh cracked black pepper, preserved lemons, a whole lumberyard full of old wood, and tingling on the edges, a cheerful little candied apple note. Flavor is bracing lemon sourness, full and pleasing but by no means the enamel dissolving acid bombs of some of Cantillon’s more aggressive blends. Enthusiastic and all-together pleasing, wool and gentle oak notes. I try to restrain evil-genius-type laughter as I survey the 2/3s of a bottle still remaining after typing out this rating. Mine! All mine!! Muhahahahaha! (In my own defense, I actually ended up sharing an entire glass with Traci.)