Hanssens Oude Kriek

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.

Aroma is sulfur and cherry. Flavor is very akin to tart grape skins and apple cider vinegar. Moderate mouth feel.

Dark red colored pour with little to no head. Nice cherry aroma with a sour, tart fruity finish.