XX Bitter
(has 2 batches)
Brouwerij De Ranke in Dottignies, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
7.16
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XX-bitter is our most bitter, high-fermenting beer. Despite its low alcohol content, it produces a very rich, long lasting, full flavour.
Taste: Very bitter but still balanced. Long-lasting, distinct hop taste.
Taste: Very bitter but still balanced. Long-lasting, distinct hop taste.
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8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
F: average, creamy, average retention. C: deep gold, hazy, opaque. A: malty, floral, hint of basement like saison tones, light orange peels, dusty, yeasty. T: malty, big grassy/floral bitterness with basement tones long lasting, orange, dusty, hay, soapy, hint of brett, hay, quite complex, good balanced and interesting beer worth to try, 0,33l bottle from Carrefour in Brussels.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2016
at 14:06
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle. Pours a clear golden with a strong white head. Aroma is flowery, earthy, malty, some wild yeasts and citric notes. Taste is very clear, flowery, earthy, hoppy bitter. Flowery bitterness aftertaste. Very fresh and well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2016
at 02:26
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Cafe Bruxelles, Leicester. Golden and clear with a cloudy white head and lots of visible carbonation. Muted lemony-woody smell, with a tiny hint of barley sugar. Bitter taste with some sweetness around the edges. Some buttered yeast roll on the bitter herbal finish. Not crazy about this one in all honesty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2016
at 08:28
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ Albion. Clear bright yellow with frothy small white head, faint honey aroma, low carbonation, sweet malty taste with honey flavor, thin body, medium finish. Not a typical Belgian ale, it reminded me of a golden ale.
Tried
on 15 Feb 2016
at 13:51
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bouteille 330ml. Couleur jaune-orangé pâle trouble, mousse blanche onctueuse laissant une belle dentelle. Arôme de houblon floral, malt, céréales, zeste d’orange, herbes fraîches. Goût de malt, amertume élevée et persistante, floral, touche d’agrumes, herbes. Carbonatation moyenne-élevée, corps moyen.
Tried
on 20 Dec 2015
at 21:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
From tap at Butcher’s Tears. J Mascis is playing tonight and Converse is paying for the tap beer! Backlog from 2014/12/13.
Update 2020/06/22. Bottle from JP Alsem. Unclear golden with white head. Grainy, soft gritty floral and herbal hops. A bitter and milky grindstone. Yeast holocaust. Lots of that bitter teast residue stuff going on. Well balanced with the aroma of the hops and the malts. Medium body and soft carbonation.
Have been revisiting three De Ranke beers lately and they are all a blessing. Finished leaving me longing for more.
7.7
Update 2020/06/22. Bottle from JP Alsem. Unclear golden with white head. Grainy, soft gritty floral and herbal hops. A bitter and milky grindstone. Yeast holocaust. Lots of that bitter teast residue stuff going on. Well balanced with the aroma of the hops and the malts. Medium body and soft carbonation.
Have been revisiting three De Ranke beers lately and they are all a blessing. Finished leaving me longing for more.
7.7
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Dec 2015
at 14:25