Hanssens Oude Kriek

375ml, pours clear blood red with very small white head around the rim. nose has oak, sour cherries, cinnamon, vinegar, peanut brittle, perfume, and sour notes. very pungent nose. flavor is pretty astringent and acidic, oaky, musty, very sour and sweet cherries. i think i might prefer this with 5+ years of age because at this point it’s too acidic. tasty but lacks the delicacy of a fine lambic.

Tasted at Holiday Wine Cellar. Clear deep red with slight white head. Aroma of red wine vinegar. Very tangy bright palate. Intense sour taste with a lingering sourness in the finish.

Tried at Holiday Wine Cellar farmhouse ale tasting. Nice pink color. Classic gueze smell and taste. Nothing spectacular.

Re-rate, 375ml bottle @ Brickskeller. I think this was my 24th choice. No clue of vintage but it was certainly not red giving me the impression it was older. Pour copper no head, big huge tart cherry nose. Taste was huge with a big mouth tingling tart pucker. Damn nice, much better than the first time around. 375ml bottle via trade with biggcb. Many thanks. Always happy to try another authentic kriek. The pour is cloudy oragne with no head. Aroma is sweet, cherry with a bit of the lambic funk. The taste is big and sour and really quite spectacular. Very good kriek.

750ml bottle. Pours a sunburnt orange color with a quickly disappearing white head. Aroma is musty, tart, sour, hay, horsy, barn, yeast, etc. Classic lambic smell. Taste is sweet, tart, cherries, light bodied, acidic. This could have a little more kick to it. It’s a little too thin and lacks the complexity and oomph to make it a great kriek. This is still very good and I enjoyed it thoroughly though it is not perfect. I’m really starting to come around to lambics. I think I have acquired the taste.

(bottle) A magnificent experience, with the ruby red colour, tantalising aroma and exciting taste. Krieks should be drunk relatively soon, as the cherriness tends to drop off after six months or so.

Split my bottle between a flute glass and a tumbler to get the different effects... Wow, what a punch in the face. I’ve said that before about beers, but this one takes the cake. Very sour lemon/cherry flavour! There is a faint straw/citrus/yeast/fermentation aroma and a very dry almost salty (as a previous rater had said). Almost no head, even with a vigorous pour. Wow, as I drink this, it really makes me pucker. Its a hard one to swallow, my wife took one sip and almost lost it. It’s not for the faint of heart.

Bottle from Uto. Opaque pinkish brown with no head. Not like the picture at all. Funny, it’s more of a lemon lime nose than cherry, much like a regular geueze rather than a kriek. Sour and tangy, which I like but still no sign of cherries, did I get a mislabelled bottle?. Salty with notes of yeast. Acidic and fizzy, sediment from the last pour adds some body. Good but not what I expected. (8/3/8/3/16)
Bottle from Nelson Wines. Wow, this is the best bottle of this I’ve ever had, so much rich black cherry and lambic funk, wow, just amazing!