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De Ranke XX Bitter

PubAddressLast Visit Seen
The Marine HotelStonehaven, Aberdeenshire27 Mar 2015
GainsbarKortrijk, Belgium17 Mar 2015
Planet Thanet Easter Beer Festival 2009Margate, Kent10 Apr 2009
Great British Beer Festival 2005Olympia, Greater London03 Aug 2005
Reading Beer Festival 2005Reading, Berkshire29 Apr 2005

Tasting Summary

These comments are the opinion of the individual reviewer and represent what they thought of the beer on a particular day in a particular pub. If a review is less favourable, it may be because the beer suffered somewhere in the supply chain between them and the brewery.

The Marine Hotel, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire

WhoScoreWhenNotes
McGargleExcellent27 Mar 2015
McGargleExcellent26 Jun 2014 Bordering on 5* this keg version was bitter, hoppy and very clean.

Gainsbar, Kortrijk, Belgium

WhoScoreWhenNotes
HSBExcellent17 Mar 2015 Draught. Finished with an old favourite.

Planet Thanet Easter Beer Festival 2009, Margate, Kent

WhoScoreWhenNotes
AndrewAcceptable10 Apr 2009 Ian had gone on about this for so long that it was the first beer I had. Pale gold and cloudy. Smells like a wheat beer. Strong grapefruit hop and yeasty. Wouldn't know it was 6.2%. 6.2%? Belgium? Musty-dusty cloudy beer? Why am I drinking this?

Great British Beer Festival 2005, Olympia, Greater London

WhoScoreWhenNotes
IanExceptional03 Aug 2005 Good to find this on draught. Cloudy gold colour, superb, hops, citric fruit, good balance. Just a nice beer.

Reading Beer Festival 2005, Reading, Berkshire

WhoScoreWhenNotes
IanExceptional29 Apr 2005 Golden ale. Very hoppy nose, citrus fruit. Hoppy citrus fruit in mouth but with more malt. Extremely dry finish with good lemony acids. Superb balanced beer

De Ranke XX Bitter

6.20% ABV.

We have tried this beer 6 times.

We have given this beer an average score of Excellent.

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