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Hanssens Oude Kriek

Hanssens Oude Kriek - Lambic - Fruit

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 Percentile 
96
overall
Brewed by Hanssens Artisanaal
Style: Lambic - Fruit

Dworp, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
4493.74/5.03.73/5.06%79.7Flute, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
This is the result of blending black cherries lambic of different ages followed by a second fermentation in the bottle. Storage is similar like geuze. All bottles are champagne corked and can be reserved, in normal conditions, for more than thirty years. It is obvious that an amazing taste evolution takes place.
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 redlight (1445), Winter Park, Florida, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/518/20
Oct 6, 2007  
Cherries, earthy, funky, acidic aroma. Pours cloudy red with a pink head. Great flavor, acidic, that classic farmy dryness, sweet and sour cherries, vinegar notes. Classic lambic! You feel it on the back sides on your tongue. Love it!


 Dedollewaitor (3622), Odense, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Oct 2, 2007    Updated: May 22, 2008
Ribena pink with a off white head. Sour cherry, vinegar, dusty, earthy like. Very fruity - a bit sour taste. Manuer, salty - bites my cheek! Great! Re-tasted bruxelles okt. 07.


 ChristianScheffel (4431), Odense, Denmark
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/59/103/517/20
Oct 1, 2007    Updated: Aug 9, 2009
Light red colour, with a small white head. Some leather, cherry, earth and grass in the aroma. Very sour cherry flavour, lots of complex funky notes, from earthy to wood and leather, leading to a fruity aftertaste.


 mabel (2530), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/517/20
Oct 1, 2007  
[596-20070908] 1pt9.4floz @ Sourfest 2007 (Buffalo, NY, w/ rudolf, frylock, IPFreely, jerc, swoopjones). Heavy wood malt aroma with some fruit and light medicinal notes. Hazy, dark brown red body with quick white bubbles. Generic fruit and cherries flavour with medium alcohol and a nice fruity finish. Medium body, very sour. Super sour, great in small quantities.


 thewolf (5623), Kolding, Denmark
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/102/514/20
Sep 30, 2007  
Bottle @ ChristianScheffel tasting. [thank you Christian]
. Pours a wonderful deep clear red - almost looks like Ribena :o) A small white-pink head sits on top. Aroma is musky (horseblanket as cab put it) with lots of cherries. A little light feeling. Flavour is a bit limited, quite tart, very fruity. Well it is okay, but nothing special for a Lambic.


 Kinz (2179), Glen Allen, Virginia, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/516/20
Sep 26, 2007  
After seeing my buddy walter’s rating, I realized I had never rated this. So I wandered to the fridge, grabbed one, and popped it on open. I think I’ve had this bottle for about 2 years now. Sediment thrown cakes one side of the bottle nicely. Poured a remarkably clear rose color, quite like the photo on this page, but with very little head. Aroma distinctly cheesy, which I’ve come to expect with Hanssens, with typical horseblanket notes and sour dark fruits. Flavor matched, but there was some actual sweetness on a cherry accented finish. Quite full bodied. Enjoyable, although I tend to prefer other lambic makers.


 walter (359), Staunton, Virginia, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Sep 23, 2007  
375ml corked bottle. Murky amber color with offwhite head. Really great rotting fruit aromas-- apples and cherries mostly, vinegar, some light brown sugar in the background, and some faint funkiness in the background. Flavor is not quite as complex as the nose-- sour, rotting cherries (but in a good way!), apple cider and red wine vinegar, and a nice drying finish, all with a sharp bite to it. Not too sour at all, and the sourness is so authentic to the fruit flavor that it’s really an interesting treat. Delightful.


 probstk (1005), Nepean, Ontario, Canada
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/58/20
Sep 19, 2007  
37,5 cl bottle via Lubiere, served almost cold in a tulip glass. BB 07/08/2024

App.: Dirty, salmon-pink, cloudy, tiny light pink head. Aroma: Where do I begin?? I honestly don’t think I have the nose or vocabulary for this stuff yet, but I’m gonna keep trying. SO, leather, cheese, funky beyond belief, white pepper, very in-your-face, is that rubber?, some light fruit (could be cherries, I guess) and softer more inviting aromas behind the more typical (and obnoxious?) lambic perfume, certainly a little vanilla if you hunt for it, Palate: Medium-thin body, little-to-no carbonation and puckering astringency. Flav.: My eye is twitching from the acidity. My GAWD this is sour. Quite spicy (pepper?) and lightly fruity, I get some of the rubbery, funky, leather too; on swallowing, my teeth are so dry I can make noise by grinding them (they stick to each other because there is no lubrication); almost salty; there is a huge jolt of tang in the back of the tongue and hints of sweet at the front, a lingering bitterness and acid notes (taste, not feeling).

This is such a perturbing style of beer. Very much an acquired taste. I’ve conquered olives and cilantro. Lambeek, look out!!



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