Hanssens Mead the Gueuze

Formerly brewed at Hanssens Artisanaal
Style: Mead
Dworp, Belgium

Serve in Snifter, Stem glass

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375 ml bottle (9%). 2006 vintage.Thanks lusikka!
Pours hazy orange color with a small head. Aroma of earth, sour fruits, some rose hip and mild goose berry bush. Flavor of earth, sour fruits, some hints of honey, grapes, goose berries and some grass. Some white wine notes on the aftertaste. Quite dry. Nice.
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375 ml bottle. 2006 vintage. 9% ABV.
Pours a golden colour with a white foamy head. Aroma of ripe apricot, syrup, hay and blackcurrant. Flavour of tart ripe apricot, some alcohol, white grapes, blackcurrant, syrup and rough grassy notes. Medium bodied, slick mouthfeel and a mouth-drying, sharp, sweetish finish. Some similarities with white wines. Very unique and tasty.

37,5 cl bottle vintage 2006 (9%) @ lusikka
Aroma has mead‐like honey, some moldy cellar, hints of root beer and grapefruit. Flavour is sour with grapefruit, green apples and earthy notes typical to gueuze. Also some honey and white wine. Dry and quite unique; smells like mead, tastes like gueuze.

375ml bottle

2006 vintage - Pours clear golden with a smooth foamy head. Aroma of cellar, stingy tartness, dry fruits, sweet meady notes and hints of honey. Taste is dry, tart and slightly sour with notes of sweet honey, mead, hints of cellary yeasty notes. Finish is vinous, sweetish, slightly sour and tart with notes of dry fruits, honey and yeast. Okay, quite unique mix of a mead and gueuze.

From ZDK’s tasting. Strange beer. The aroma is sweet, honey, fruit. The appearance is slightly hazy amber, off-white head. The flavor is sweet, honey, funk. The finish is a bit sour, fruit, honey. Medium in body. Good overall.

Bottle at a tasting at Matt’s place. Pours a lightly hazed amber brown with a thin white head. Loads of oxidization and old plums, candied prunes and soft sweetness. Raisins, plums, sweet and tangy. Long tart oxidized finish, old plum candy, light metal.

Bottle shared by Puzzl at Zach and Matt’s 4/20 tasting. Pours dark caramel. No head. Nose and taste of caramel, candi and dark sugars, sock fermented old fruit, honey and dirt/earth. Medium body.

Bottle shared by Andy at Zach & Matt’s tasting. Don’t know the vintage but it was obviously fairly old. Pours dirty yellow and completely flat (big suprise). Aroma is dirty fruit and old bottled faro sugar. Taste is a balance of tartness and honey. Slightly sweet and slightly tart. Mouthfeel is very light and not syrupy at all. Interesting.

Received from a generous BA. I have been intrigued by this for awhile, couldnt wait to finally open it. This has been sitting in my fridge for a little while now and I’ve been apprehensive about opening it because it has a ton of white floating stuff at the top of the beer in the bottle. Opened the bottle to a very small pop and the beer poured a still orange brown in color and had some white floating stuff on the surface despite a careful pour. Nose is probably the highlight of the beer to me. It has some sharp lemon, solvent, and soft sweetness to it. The mead is actually a nice complement to the sharpness of the gueuze. Flavor isn’t all too impressive, it’s reminscent of an unblended lambic with a sweet finish. The flavor is watery and the lemon is pretty muted. It is slightly oxidized as well. Light mouthfeel, gentle acidity, no carbonation, and a short, abrupt finish. I was thankful to experience this, but this isn’t something I would revisit. Still, it’s a cool and unique concept from Hanssens.

bottle at akkurat. nice sour and funk! but the honey comes trough and really makes it sweet although it’s not sweet at all when you taste it! the honey just is there in a nice way! good beer a must have!