Hanssens Oude Kriek

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

Nice reddish-purple color. Funky farmhouse hay and sour cherry aroma. Nice sour cherry, lemon, farmhouse hay and grass flavors. Sour, slightly dry finish.

Appearance: Set down in front of me a deep, reddish-purple, still body. Gulp. Smell: Heady nose of marinated cherry skins with lesser fruity notes of cranberries and black muscats. Stingy scents of decomposing wood drenched with citric, sour lemon juice and vinegar. Taste: Predominate cherry-like fruitiness, but (gah!) it’s nearly obscured behind the intense, jarring acidity and seemingly sea salt-like qualities. Oh so acetic. Hint of musty, rotting wood. Oh so salty. Thinking back on it is giving me a hankering for some salt-n-vinegar chips. Dry finish laced with acid. Mouthfeel: Medium-light, still body as it’s completely flat carbonationwise. Drinkability: By far the most acidic beverage I believe I’ve ever come across. Fairly tasty, but it’s a real gut-wrencher -- you can literally feel yourself rotting away from the inside due to your newly-formed, bleeding Hanssens Ulcers. So, please, have some TUMS handy!

Bottle. #200 rating Pour is red carbonation was nice. Flavor of cherries and the finishes tart. Great beer thanks to Rciesla for introducing me to the genre and sharing this bottle.

Pours a reddish purple with a small white head. Aroma is sourness, vinegar, cherries, must, dust. Flavor is sour vinegar, acidic cherry, dust, wood, funk, touch of cough medicine but not too much to interfere with the beer. More sour than expected and quite enjoyable overall.

Hazy nut brown with reddish hue. Great acidic funky aroma with light berry sweetness. Nice acidic funk and bite, excellent sour taste with slight fruit ans syrupy mouthfeel.

Pours ruby into a tumbler. Pink head quickly recedes to hug rim. Sour cherry and funk aromas. Dry and tart with cherries and sour lactic funk that lasts through the finish.

Pour a a rose color with a small disappearing off-white head. aroma of tart fruit, cherry’s, and some funky yeast. flavor is of black cherries, cranberries, funky yeast, oak, and some hops. this beer is very sour. is has a dry, light to medium finish. this my first lambic and after drinking this one, I defeinity am interested in tasted more beers from this style.

750ml Bottle: Aroma of lambic, tart fruit, and a hint of black cherries. Poured deep orange/strawberry-juice/pink in color with a small, white/pink head that lasted throughout as a film on top of the beer. Very hazy. Very slightly sparkling. Flavor is heavily tart and lightly sweet. Tastes of tart black cherries, lambic, and acetic acid. Light to medium body. Tart, mouth-puckering texture is rather average. Average to lively carbonation. Tart, lightly sweet finish lasts.