Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Has a soft malt and hop aroma. Appearance is that of a weak lager and nothing else. Has all the wrong flavours - detergent and rotten cabbage. Weak on the mouth. It’s not a good hefeweizen.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
[At GABF 2004] A hazy red-brown beer with no head. The aroma is of cherries and wood. The flavor is nicely sour with notes wood, that gives it a dry end. The sourness draws the mouthwater, just as a lambic should. Nice.
Ungstrup (52239) reviewed Sour Prick from Bitter End Bistro & Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
[At GABF 2004] An unclear orange-brown beer with a small disappearing white head. The aroma is lovely sour with notes of wood. The flavor contains a great sourness, that draws out the mouthwater, and also some light metal notes. Nice one.
Ungstrup (52239) reviewed Batch 1100 from Bitter End Bistro & Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
[At GABF 2004] An orange beer with a fine but disappearing off-white head. The aroma is sweet malty with distinct notes of alcohol. The flavor is nice with notes of alcohol, malt, and fruits - especially oranges and plums - leading to a nice bitter end, that gives way to a pleasant alcohol burn on the tongue.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
An opaque brown beer with a beutiful head. The aroma is very sweet and very fruity, combined with notes of raisins, and malt. The flavor is of prunes, raisins, alcohol, and burnt wood.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
An unclear red beer with a disappearing white head. The aroma is just sour - nothing else. The flavor is very sour and very fruity - I can’t pick out the pear. The mouthfeel is very carbonated. It bears a lovele resemblance with a fruit gueze.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Batch 1100 from Bitter End Bistro & Brewery 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Dull-hazy brown beer with foxy shine; slim yellowish head, relatively stable for such a massive beer. Alcohol grips you by the thr... nose. Faint chocolate malt behind the alcohol onslaught. Rich, warming, sweet taste with immediate brandy-lik burning. Flavours of chocolate, dry tobacco leaf, strawberry liqueur, sultana’s, touch of pure cinnamon bark - all vying for dominance. Full bodied, warming, long aftertaste referring to the alcohol. Unmistakably great taste. Rich, (ful)filling. But it is not really refined - more the big punch. "Quadruple" - indeed. Again big thanks to the Dewberry clan.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Chaos IPA from Bitter End Bistro & Brewery 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Thick, yellowish, very even head, fine lace; hazy orange beer. Immediate punch of citrussy, pink grapefruit hops. Hopoil just jumps out the glass - but serve this to somebody blindfolded as a new grapefruit drink, he’ll go along. Tangy, piney, turpentine-like hop - both taste, flavour and mouthfeel. Flavour of sweet yellow grapes, splashed over with the hopbitterbrush. Raisincookies. Mouthfeel is thé spot of difference with the W.C.-IPA’s; it’s much less packed with malts underneath. It could do with some more beef on the bones, but it’s not meagre for that. Long burning aftertaste at the tonguesides. It’s a great IPA. It just looses some points on mouthfeel - and on distinctiveness. From the few B.-E. beers I’ve had it’s the most unidimensional. More thanks to my generous Texan providers.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Fluffy, bubbly white head, collapsing in small craters, some lace; very pale peach-yellow beer, hazy. "Creamy" nose - impossible to explain without blowing a hashish pipe - I suppose, short of experience. Notes of coffee - in a fully pale beer! Then hops to the fore, like a very-well hopped English ale. Quite bitter taste, bitterness growing even after first recognition, citrussy. Malt for balance is unmistakably. 25 IBU seems very low - it appears to be more. Notes of bitter grapefruit retronasal, gains also some hayaroma's. I have to admit it has a soft, creamy mouthfeel - I wasn’t expecting much of this, but it’s there allright. Surprisingly well-carbonised, but nowhere fizzy. Intruiging because of the rainwater, but interesting because of being one of the few organic beers worth its money. Good show - I hold this brewer in high esteem. Many thanks to the Dewberries!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(draught - !) Delicate pink-tainted orange-amber; no head. Nose of wood and Brettanomyces, citrus and just a touch of sulphur. Instead of 'horseblanket', taste of what I'd call wet socks and blue cheese. Not bad (by far) but weird. Very cheesy finish, lots of acids but not too harsh. Slight slick, oily feel, refreshing enough. Sourness keeps around but aftertaste has both cheese and sugars. Not, of course it isn't gueuze as I know it. But it's worth seeking out, even for Belgians.