XXX Bitter
Brouwerij De Ranke in Dottignies, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
7.45
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XXX-Bitter is a variation on the existing XX-bitter, where we add an additional 50% more hops.
Taste: Full-bodied bitter beer. Despite its higher IBU-value, the large amount of aroma-hops makes this beer taste smoother than XX.
Taste: Full-bodied bitter beer. Despite its higher IBU-value, the large amount of aroma-hops makes this beer taste smoother than XX.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. A hazy golden beer with a lazing white head. The aroma has notes of spicybhops, malt, and hay. The flavor is sweet with notes of straw, hops, light malt, and some spices, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Mar 2014
at 12:42
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at the "Colin and the Vikings tasting, Goteborg". Poured a hazy straw colour with a long-lasting frothy white head. The aroma is yest, light fruit. The flavour is medium bitter with a light hop yeast palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2014
at 12:28
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of AndySnow. Pours very hazy pale golden with a frothy white head that leaves lots of soapy lacing and trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is rather subtle with crackers, unripe tropical fruits, moist grass, pine needles, grapefruit juice, lemon hard candy and lemon zest. Taste is bitter and fruity with crackers, moist grass, pine needles, peach skins, grapefruit juice, orange peal, lemon peal, hay, starfruit, honeydew melon, lemony soap and hints of pepper corns. Mouthfeel is soft, tiny champagne-like, dry, astringent and light to medium bodied. Finish is bitter and fruity with crackers, grapefruit rinds, orange peal, moist grass, pine needles, pepper corns, unripe pears, starfruit and unripe mango. Very solid hoppy Belgian blonde.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2014
at 12:07
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours hazy butterscotch, love that color. Tons of tiny particles floating around in suspension. Medium off-white head, creamy, nice lacing. Aroma is citrus, yeast, pepper, grass, orange. Light sweet, medium bitter with a sharp bitter finish. Medium plus mouthfeel, creamy and silky.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2014
at 22:17
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750mL bottle, pours a cloudy golden with a large white head. Aroma is lovely, with notes of floral hops, Belgian yeast, and some spicy hoppy notes as well. Flavour is intensely hoppy, with shitloads of bitter spicy floral hops, and just enough dry malt backing. Wonderfully drinkable despite being unbalanced. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2014
at 19:33
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 75cl corked. A well-retained white head of two-finger size sits on top of a clear, golden body. There’s lots of lovely piney and resiny hops on the nose, some hints of white pepper and a whiff of flowers. A pleasant scent of pale malts in the back, with some biscuity notes. It’s dry and full bodied, with a quite high but pleasant level of carbonation. Perhaps a tad too bitter, but the pale malts deals nicely with it. Resins, some grass and a touch of pine cones. There’s a faint touch of white sugar here as well, but that’s left in the remote background, just to remind us of its origin. It might be a bit challenging to finish a bottle without sharing, but it’s definitely a fine brew. Hope this one will be brewed at a regular basis. 140118
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2014
at 15:38
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle 750ml @ fonefan
Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, yeast, some fruits and grass. Taste is light to medium sweet and medium bitter with a dry, bitter and grassy finish. Body is light to medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, yeast, some fruits and grass. Taste is light to medium sweet and medium bitter with a dry, bitter and grassy finish. Body is light to medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2014
at 15:33