Hanssens Oude Gueuze

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

Serve in Flute, Stem glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you’d step over your own mother just to get one! But you can’t stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!

Corked and caged, green glass. Have had this bottle for at least two years. Pours orange-tinged deep golden, a lacing creamy white head. Smells metallic and sour and acidic, and freaking intense. Taste, wow, mouth puckeringly sour, burns but from the acidity rather than the alcohol. Lemon (heavy, heavy citrus) behind the metal and mixing with some barnyard. Saliva production activated in earnest. Touches of wood and wheat, touch of spice, aftertaste is akin to a sour Wit but with woody dryness and a lingering fruitiness. Full body, bone dry, refreshing. For sourheads, revelatory, and I think very underrated on here.

Bottle. Aroma has notes of pungent sour fruits, lemons, sweat, vinegar and brine. Medium orange hue with a small white head that left little lace. Taste is medium sweet and heavy sour. Palate is light bodied and thin with an average carbonation. Finish is astringent and crisp. A fantastic Gueuze! Very fruity, thin and crisp with a huge sour bite. Great!.

750 ml bottle in pint glass. (Tasted fairly cold. Hey, its 90 degrees with 90% humidity and my AC ain’t working right.) Pours clear bright orange with lasting small whitish head. Strong fresh aroma of overripe oranges and wet leaves. Pungent flavors of fresh oranges and horseblanket. Extremely refreshing medium-high carbonation. Perhaps not the most complex gueuze but possibly the most delicious.

Pours a slightly hazy golden yellow color with a two finger frothy, pillowy white head tat slowly fades into a lasting cap. Minimal splotches of soapy lacing. Earthy funky barnyard aroma with a good bit of estery golden crisp fruit notes. Lots of oak and musty stinky horesblanket blending with crisp light fruits, especially apple and pear. Slightly lactic. The smell of this beer makes my mouth water. Pretty rtame for the style but still plenty flavorful. Not as funky earthy or acidic as i expected but still enough of the sour tartness and barnyard funk to make it epsecially mouthwatering. Slightly oak with a perfect amount of tart sournes that balances out the sweet estery golden fruit notes. Creamy medium body which again is unusual for the style with a lactic funk. Subtle malty backbone which is more pronounced than most examples of the style. This beer is very complex and while it has a good bit of barnyard tart funkiness it is not acidic at all as has a lot of complexity, integrating sweet estery light fruit notes, resulting in one of the most drinkable sours I’ve had yet. Highly recommended!

UPDATED: MAY 1, 2012 The Godfather of Funk. This has got to be one of the most underrated guezes. I mean, what’s not to like? Hanssens is really up there because of the no-nonsense lip-pickering madness they produce, and their deceptive simplicity. This has got all that lemony, acidic bracing sourness in the finish, with just enough pedio that you know it’s there but really have to look for it because it is buried deep beneath that horse blanket. And it’s got so much more than that. It’s got that leathery "horseblanket" aroma, which is deep and evocative and heavy on the soul. Drinking this beer is like making love in the hay. It’s raw, a little rough around the edges, smelly, and fun. Scrumptious and appealing on many levels. It tastes really alive. Accessible and not shy: in your face, and not ashamed of it. This is a good friend.

Lovely sour frutiy smell and a long lasting sourness lingers on a long time after drinking this down. Brilliant stuff.

Bottle. Thanks to Podge’s beer stall, Chelmsford Summer Beer Festival 2010. Damn I needed a lambic. Peachy golden colour; peaches, cherries, funky elements, low carbanation, something absolutely perfect for a summer English garden, one fantastic lambic. Thanks a lot. I want another one,.

Sour, acidic. Nice amber color. Citrus. Very refreshing geuze, one of the most sour i tasted

Deep orange, a bit cloudy, almost no head. Lovely nose of summer berries (wild strawberries, red currant and morello cherries to name a few) dry apple cider, vinegar and funk. Very fruity in a berry kind of way for being an oude gueuze. A little sweetness matches the tartness well. Not very extreme, but very well balanced and that lovely berry character. Fantastic!