Hanssens Oudbeitje

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Little hazy yellow, no foam remaining as anticipated. Typical lambic aroma with hint of strawberries. Great sour taste, a beer for warmer day, but this last day of 2016 is also OK. (Velp 201612)

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

375 ml corked and caged bottle. Poured in an oldtimer lambic glass from Dworp ( De Koninck Gebrs. ) an unfiltered hazy copper-brown coloured Fruit Lambic with no foamy head. Not the smallest micro bubble! No carbonation. No lacing. The aroma is a strong tart acidity, barnyard, quite surprising notes of meat, chitterlings sausage (!). The flavour is the pure sourness of the Lambic at its highest level, faint fruity notes, strawberries and pronounced notes of wood. The mouthfeel is first an unpleasant salty sensation before in a second time faint fruity notes emerged, and quite thin. This light to medium bodied Fruit Lambic has a long vinegar aciditic finish. A high rustical, not easy drinkable Fruit Lambic from the famous Pajottenland,... even for people used to sour ales !

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

375ml bottle (’Master’s collection year 2000’). I picked this beer up from Honeygo Wine & Spirits in White Marsh, MD on Thanksgiving (2011). I had this beer with some dessert on Thanksgiving. It was SUPER tart/sour. The strawberries didn't really do it for me - too light, too weak to poke through.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Special edition year 2000 .. . BoTTlE from Steins .. . when i popped the cork, nothing- flat as a pancake .. Pours a flat deep gold .. . no foam .. . wooo! nice clean sour punch, then fades to a delicious light hay and strawberry aftertaste .. .trutv, tv for inbred mongrels .. . light grain, wet hay, wood, and strawberry- quite the sour lil bastard .. . very nice stuff, and i enjoyed it immensely, just would have liked a touch of fizz or not .. . . I mean, for the entire second act, the audience kept yelling, "She's in the attic, she's in the attic!"

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Hazy golden/orangeish colour. Supersour nose along with some strawberries. Flavour is sour and fruityish/berryish. Very pleasant lambic, which most likely will age good too.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

This is a very nice lambic, and a very nice "starter" lambic if you are trying to expose some people to one of the greatest beer styles out there. Is the aroma funky? Yeah, it is but it's not so far funky that will turn someone away. It's got the barnyard, old leather going but it's very tame. Appearance is a light reddish/pink color with a fizzy head. To say the mouthfeel is puckering is accurate, but again it's not so where it might turn someone away. Flavors are a nice blend of sweet strawberries, acidic, tartness as well as a bit of funk. I liked this and will buy more for other people to sample. It's an eye opener for sure.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Bottle: Poured a light red/brown color lambic with no head or carbonation. Aroma of funk and horse blanket is quite strong with some very subtle strawberry in the back. Taste is mix of sour and funky lambic with an extra dose of horse blanket with some faint strawberry also noticeable. Not sure if this lack some aging or if the balance is wrong but definitely not one the best lambic fruit that I have tasted.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

A true lambic, funky and tart all around. The pour was rose / pink colored, very clear, lots of initial fizzle, but no sustaining head or lacing of any sort. The aroma was of mold, cheese, light citrus, and berries (no, I could't explicitly pick out strawberries were it not for the label). Flavor followed the aroma, some funk and acidic notes mixed in there. Mouthfeel was clearly acidic, and this was a tart and bona-fied lambic.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

This one displayed the strawberries pretty clearly and in the aroma, they seemed very balanced with the musty, funky lambic characteristics. The flavor was pretty dry and the strawberries kind of fall back into the background. Strawberries don’t seem to be the lambic naturals that Peaches and raspberries are, but this was still a pretty good beer.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Limited edition 2000 release. 375ml. cork finished bottle. Orange gold color, very cloudy. Small to no head. Aroma is fruity and funky barnyard and must. Touch of berry. A medium bodied fruit lambic. LOTS of funk, must and barnyard flavors are sort of balanced by a sweet berry fruitiness. Little to no carbonation. Lots of fruitiness, lots of funk and they sort of don’t mix to well. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is crisp and dry. Aftertaste is tart.