Hanssens Oude Kriek

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

PPECG09 Light brown pour with off white head and lace. Aroma of sour cherries and yeast. Hugh clean fruity cherriness with a very nice sharp sour that just seems to clean your mouth out. Medium bodied with excellent carbonation. I swear I think this would clean your teeth.

750ml Bottle. Wacky orange-brown color with a lovely, thin, creamy head. Aroma of cherries, lactic acid, citrus, barnyard, and something sweet and candy-like too in the background. Deep cherry flavor with a bit of sweetness, a touch of caramel, and a strong sour edge. Lactic creaminess goes with a dry finish, tannic (from the stones?). Perfect balance. Light, crsip and smooth, with a perfect palatte. Wonderful.

Bottle. Pours with a frothy pink head over a muddy pink body. Aroma of red wine, sour dark cherries, funk, apple, acetone, vanilla tannins, and pineapple. Taste is good and sour with some horse hair and a bit of sweet dark cherry pie ending with a bit of nail polish and a touch of formaldehyde. Ultra acidic, with straight lacto like stomach acid and a bit of ripe cherry. Super dry mouthfeel light but lively carbonation. Excellent, but I wonder if I could dissolve metal with this.

Nice reddish-purple color. Funky farmhouse hay and sour cherry aroma. Nice sour cherry, lemon, farmhouse hay and grass flavors. Sour, slightly dry finish.

Appearance: Set down in front of me a deep, reddish-purple, still body. Gulp. Smell: Heady nose of marinated cherry skins with lesser fruity notes of cranberries and black muscats. Stingy scents of decomposing wood drenched with citric, sour lemon juice and vinegar. Taste: Predominate cherry-like fruitiness, but (gah!) it’s nearly obscured behind the intense, jarring acidity and seemingly sea salt-like qualities. Oh so acetic. Hint of musty, rotting wood. Oh so salty. Thinking back on it is giving me a hankering for some salt-n-vinegar chips. Dry finish laced with acid. Mouthfeel: Medium-light, still body as it’s completely flat carbonationwise. Drinkability: By far the most acidic beverage I believe I’ve ever come across. Fairly tasty, but it’s a real gut-wrencher -- you can literally feel yourself rotting away from the inside due to your newly-formed, bleeding Hanssens Ulcers. So, please, have some TUMS handy!

Bottle. #200 rating Pour is red carbonation was nice. Flavor of cherries and the finishes tart. Great beer thanks to Rciesla for introducing me to the genre and sharing this bottle.

Pours a reddish purple with a small white head. Aroma is sourness, vinegar, cherries, must, dust. Flavor is sour vinegar, acidic cherry, dust, wood, funk, touch of cough medicine but not too much to interfere with the beer. More sour than expected and quite enjoyable overall.

Hazy nut brown with reddish hue. Great acidic funky aroma with light berry sweetness. Nice acidic funk and bite, excellent sour taste with slight fruit ans syrupy mouthfeel.