Bittere Vos
Brouwerij De Ranke in Dottignies, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Special|
Score
7.64
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Une XX BITTER, mais avec deux adaptations houblonnées. Le premier truc : on utilise que du Brewers Gold, comme Guido faisait dans sa bière emblématique qui est devenu la XX que on connaît. Le deuxième : on a fait encore un dry-hopping (infusion du houblon dans la bière, pendant la maturation)…également avec du Brewers Gold.
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8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Light hazy golden colour, white foam. Typical De Ranke nose: dry, grassy, herbal. Taste is bitter, grassy and hoppy with some malty sweetness. Great!
Tried
on 11 Jun 2024
at 19:29
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bouteille 75cl partagée avec Philippe, BB 20/12/2025, bottled dec 2023.
Dorée présentant un léger pâle orangé, col épais crémeux blanc-cassé.
Arôme présente un bouquet houblonné, herbacé avec une finalité terreuse. Le caractère malté est bien là avec une signature belge et ce côté classique de DeRanke.
Palais est plaisant, bien sur une XX Bitter revisitée - le houblon Brewers Gold procure une touche fine herbacée/épicée, petite pointe de fruité surfant sur les baies noires, finement terreux et poivré délicat en fin de bouche.
Dorée présentant un léger pâle orangé, col épais crémeux blanc-cassé.
Arôme présente un bouquet houblonné, herbacé avec une finalité terreuse. Le caractère malté est bien là avec une signature belge et ce côté classique de DeRanke.
Palais est plaisant, bien sur une XX Bitter revisitée - le houblon Brewers Gold procure une touche fine herbacée/épicée, petite pointe de fruité surfant sur les baies noires, finement terreux et poivré délicat en fin de bouche.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Dynamo - Cave De Soif
on 30 May 2024
at 07:41
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Pours slightly hazed blonde. Large white head , rather stable ( especially for its size ). Scent is earthy hops, fairly intense and for sure dominant. Taste is sharp, bitter (obviously). Dank intense earthy hops. Remains balanced and consumable though. Not over the top, but going to a clear direction. High carbo over a medium body. Nice and typical de ranke greatness !
Tried
on 28 May 2024
at 18:50
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Color: Clear golden, huge white head. Aroma: Floral hop. Taste: Floral and spicy hop. Biscuity malty backbone. Syrong hopbitterness at the very dry and bit spicy finish. Very light citrus fruit. Medium body, just below average carbonation. Another very nice De Ranke beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2024
at 19:52
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. HOTM online. 8 and a bit quid for a 750. Can’t knock that with the biggest of sticks. Anyhoo. Mostly clear honey gold. Thick firm lasting almost fully lacing white foam. Looks the beans. Lemon rind and fresh clipped privet. Clean tangy yeast. Bright fresh malt. Taste has some honey sweetness before a big hit of fresh old world grassy hop leaf bitterness kicks in. Clean and fresh on the palate with rolling foamy carbonation. Leafy grassy bitterness to finish. Unreal condition on this. This is what a brewer like De Ranke does best. Super tasty classy beer in perfect nick.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2024
at 20:35
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A golden beer, a head is quite big and blond. Aroma has flower hoppyness, fruitness, even pollen dryness. Taste has frutiness, flowers, nicely dry and bitter. Great beer, aromatic, bitter and dry.
Tried
on 09 May 2024
at 11:53
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up from HOTM. Pours clear honey-gold with a billowing, frothy white head. Highly effervescent. Light sweet flavour with ample crunchy pale grains, straw, grassy hops, dried citrus peel, soft yeast, dirty hay. Light bodied with lively, massaging carbonation. Super clean finish, lightly drying, some fresh and crunchy cereal, more dirty straw and hay, bitter grass, dried pale malts. Highly drinkable. Nice lingering, cleansing bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2024
at 20:52
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
750ml bottle from Raynville Superstore. It pours lightly hazy deep golden - blonde with a huge billowing, fluffy white head. The aroma is freshly baked bread, biscuity malt, hay, grassy, nuttiness, light spice, twist of citrus, lemon and lime. The taste is firmly dry, big hit of bitterness which builds and lingers throughout, green, grassy, slightly herbal, spicy, leafy, bitter citrus peel, pithy, zesty, waxy peel, lemon, lime, bready malt base, biscuit, toasty grain and cereal with a drying, bitter grassy finale. Medium body and high, foamy carbonation. Punchy and demand a bit of attention. Very quaffable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2024
at 16:33
8/10
Wonderful! Nice and richly bitter. Would like to try it without the sugar, although it's so well balanced that I wouldn't have guessed there's sugar in it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2024
at 19:20
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from The Beerhive. Mostly clear golden body with a few flecks floating beneath a white head. Lively carbonation. Aroma of peppery earth, grapefruit and grass. Flavour of salted bread and straw. Medium body with a frothy mouthfeel. Very fizzy. Raw and hoppy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2024
at 16:13