Hanssens Oude Kriek

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

First rating
(37.5 cl bottle from Swedish Systembolaget)
Brownish color, white head. Strong sour scent, some horse droppings. Very sour taste. No bitterness. Acid, but nice, aftertste. Unusually high level of CO2 for this type of beer.
6/3/7/3/14=3.3

Second rating.
(Bottle at The Rover, Göteborg)
Shady copper color, small white head. Extreme acidic scent with some sweet cherries. Acidic and marzipan taste, sour aftertaste. Spritzy mouthfeel, low bitterness.
7/3/6/3/13=3.2

A Mes rate: 37.5cl bottle at St. Albans Beer Festival 2006. Quite surprsied to find this is a new rate for me having had it quite a few times before. Salty old cherries and spice in the aroma. Not overly horsey horsey but its obviously there. Great colour, light brown with a pinkish hue and a slight white head. Very dry. Wonderfully prickly palate. Obvious cherry and a little sweeter than most but not at all syrupy. Unusual lick of chocolate too. Quite spicy and herbacious along the lines of a Liefmans Lriek. More spice for the finish which is wonderfully sour and very dry. A great palate clearer as all lambics should be. I have had much better but stand alone it’s still a jolly good beer.

Pale red color with a thin white foam. Lots of fruty and sour notes. Light body with a very dry finish.

Beautiful pale garnet color with burnt orange highlights and a thin pink head. Funky nose-tingling lambic sourness in the aroma with light pickled berry fruit notes. Distant sour cherry flavors behind the rollicking lambic yeast profile. Gives a slight impression of sweetness without it actually being there. It’s very dry and crisp and and finishes with a touch of stone fruit bitterness. Light body with an extremely agile mouthfeel. Aggressive, bracing tartness that nearly stings and lasts and lasts.

bottle. orange red color. sweet and sour vinegar aroma. very dry. lots of cherry. kind of wild. too sweet.

Smaller Bottle. Pour is cherry red with small pinkish head. Nose is barnyard, sour cherries, band-aid, funk, vinegar, and old socks. yummy. flavor is very similar--mouth puckering goodness. I just love authentic fruit lambics. Shared with some good friends and converted a couple to lambics. Im happy to spread the wealth.

Bottle: Dark red with a thin fizzy pink head. Aroma sharp sourness, cherries, some funky yeasty notes. Flavor, dry sour and musty, cherries, a tartness. I found this to be, a bit too harshly sour for my tastes, I really prefer the softer bite that the 3Fontinen had.

(750ml bottle) Small off-white head that wholly dissipates, atop a hazy red body. Aroma is mild sweet, sour cherry, vinegar, leather, light wood. Taste is quite sour, vinegar, cherry, some cheese. Light sweetness sneaks in there, but the vinegary sourness is what dominates, particularly in the swallow. Acidic light-medium body with light stickiness. Remarkably unremarkable.