Hanssens Oude Gueuze

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

Serve in Flute, Stem glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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750ml, Probably fresh and basically at room temperature - Pours a golden, yellowish with a frothy pure white head that lasts and lasts. Aroma is fruity, sour, tart, acidity, funk, horseblanket, and citrusy/lemons. Taste is semi-sweet at first, then quickly becomes sharply tart and moves to sour. It’s so sour it begins to burn your tongue and mouth - you can lick the sourness off your lips. It ends with a very long-lasting funky, lactic/acidic aftertaste. Very refreshing and zesty. Can easily imagine myself enjoying this at a cafe in Brussels on a fantastic warm summer nite.

Had a 375ml bottle served at about 55. Poured a hazy orange and the head dissipated quickly. Smells incredibly sour with a suble hint of sulfur; almost like vinegar. The sourness and dryness suck all the moisture out of your mouth. Tastes like the first second when you put a sweet tart in your mouth; all tart and no sweetness. Great beer, but only for the adventurous.

Aroma is vinegar. Appearance is semitranslucent orange/red combination. Flavor is sour upfront identical to aroma followed by citrus/lemons. I didn't detect malt in the flavor. Palate was a strong sour that didn't clear itself. Overall, my first Gueuze so it's hard to compare to others Gueuzes.

Bottle. Orange golden color and a nice foamy white head. Green apple and white wine aroma. Acidic with a green apple taste. Not bad, my best Geuze so far. Bière de couleur orange doré avec un bon collet mousseux. Odeur de pomme verte et de vin blanc. Au goût, elle est acide mais, moin que la kriek et elle goute les pommes vertes. Pas mauvaise, ma meilleur Geuze jusqu’à maintenant.

Opaque gold with a nice white head that quickly diminishes. A strong aroma of funky goodies greats the nostrils: rotten peaches, lemon rind, pepper, damp soil, earthy mushrooms. A perfect body of tart citrus flows and folds into peppery peaches, day old lime juice, and a little herbal bitterness. Finishes with a lingering taste of earthy lime. Fantastic gueuze that would pare well with something light and sweet: dried fruit, coconut cream pie.

375 ml bottle. The white head disappears fast,hazy golden color. Very complex gueuze, "brie" cheese aroma, butter, lactic acid, lemon and grapefruit peel, citrus-fruity aroma, leather, game (chamois), dusty aroma, wet wood. Medium body, dry and tart, not really sour, astringency on the gums. I can't move away my nose from the glass!

75 cl bottle from the hopduvel in Gent. Light orange golden body with very large longlasting head. Very sour citrus taste. **

pours a very light orange color with decent carbonation and a nice white head. initial aroma a little funky, bold, sour. After the initial whiff, still sour, with a little fruity smell, possibly pear. Initial taste. woah, sour. Sweet and sour, like a sour patch kid or something of the sort. pear.

Pours brilliantly clear gold with no head. Just a ring of fine bubbles. Aroma is huge barnyard, with a cheesy funk to it. Slight dark fruit aroma in the background. Body is thin, almost watery. Flavor is sharply sour funk w/ slight cherry, or plum notes in the backgroung with slightly sweet finish, and aftertaste. Very good, but not as great as I expected.

aroma of aged, runny cheese, barn; taste very sour, no sweetness, dry, extremely acetic - I wanted to finish it , but the heartburn wouldn’t allow it. A good beer, but not for me.