Hanssens Oude Kriek

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

Bottle @ Spuyten Duyvil, split with puzzl. Pours red with little to no head. Huge funky aroma; smells wonderfully sour. It’s no joke when you take this baby to your lips. Big-time sour cherry kick. Not much happening on the palate, just your standard acidity. Has a bit of a sweeter finish. Great way to end the night.

Green bottle, 375 ml, best before 07/08/2024, via Importations Privées Bièropholie; eye: amber with a reddish hue, clear, slight effervescence, tiny ring of beige head, no lacing; nose: horse, acidic, lightly fruity; mouth: sour, horse and well under the saddle cherries, acidity of small berries, finale in horse-cherry with a lot of sourness, a bit of cherry comes back after the finale, quite sour, slightly sweet, lots of astringency, medium body, a bit thin, rather carbonated; overall: not my cup of tea FRANÇAIS Bouteille verte, 375 ml, meilleure avant 07/08/2024, via Importations Privées Bièropholie; œil : ambrée avec une teinte rougeâtre, claire, très légère effervescence, petit anneau de mousse beige, pas de dentelle; nez : cheval, acide, léger fruité; bouche : aigre, cheval et bien caché sous sa selle les cerises, acidité de petits fruits, finale en cheval-cerise avec beaucoup d’aigreur, un tout petit peu de cerise bien après la finale, très aigre, très légèrement sucrée, beaucoup d’astringence, corps moyen, un peu mince, plutôt carbonatée; en résumé : pas mon style

De Zolder, Brugge, New Year’s Eve. Served with another sourness warning. Bring it on. Head collapsing into a still pinkish blush. A tickle of carbonation. Huge wood and sourness on the nose. Sherbety tang biting with lemon juice tartness. Very much a traditional, lambic-heavy Kriek. With something that looks like a pip swilling in it. Wicked. And just the tonic that’s required to reawaken the taste buds in the middle of a 7 hour Belgian session.

Pours orange amber with a fully receding off-white head. Aroma of sour cherry, barnyard, and some serious brett. Taste is brett, barnyard, sour, acidic with cherries and oak. Mouthfeel is quite sour and acid, light bodied with low carbonation.

bottle, 375ml, 31 Dec 07
Light red/rose w/ thin white head (when forced), clear
Intense sour/barnyard aroma with lots of cherries. Makes me salivate
Sour start and acidic throughout. Nice cherry character. dry finish
Lt body, med-hi carb
Nice cherry presence. This lambic is pretty powerfully sour - a sipper!

Bottle 37,5 cl. Deep red color, small white head that’s almost totally disappearing. Medium body and lively carbonation. Dry aroma of cherries and oak. A very well balanced beer. Initial sweetness then a long sour finish. Very good.

Pours hazy red with small pink head. Intense sour aroma with natural cherries, barnyard and grapefruit. Flavor has the usual brett notes, natural cherries and it is extremely sour. Perhaps the most sour kriek of them all? Very refreshing!

375ml bottle. Hazy red-amber colour with a decent off-white head. Big aromas of cherry, barnyard, yeast with a sour, savoury edge. Flavour of cherry with a musty sour finish. Very good.