Brasserie de la Senne Crisp & Bitter

Crisp & Bitter

 

Brasserie de la Senne in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪

Collab with: Burning Sky Brewery
  Pale Ale - Classic English Special
Score
7.13
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 2
Crisp & Bitter is a collaboration with our English friends of the famous Burning Sky brewery. The origin of the name? While developing the recipe, Yvan asked the brewmaster Mark Tranter which kind of beer he wanted to brew. His very British answer was: “It should be crisp and bitter, like us!”
The colour is golden blond. The beer has a natural haziness due to the massive dry-hopping and the use of a small amount of oats. The hops used in the process are a mix of new English and German varieties, which give fruity flavours of tropical fruits, papaya and mandarin zest. In the taste we have accents of bitter orange, mandarine, exotic flowers, and gooseberry. The bitterness is long, balanced, very fresh. The aftertaste is pleasantly dry.
 

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7.6/10
Tried from Draft on 13 Jun 2026 at 12:08

8/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8
Keg at the Hop Locker, Southbank Market. Hazy darker orange. Delicate foamy white head. Aroma is bitter and herbal. Flavourwise it's similar to the aroma - herbal and added resin. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft-flat carbonation. Long dry astringent finnish. Good stuff.
Tried from Draft at Hop Locker, Southbank Centre Food Market (aka #1) on 30 May 2026 at 07:48