I am not impressed and quite frankly I think their baguettes are overpriced and overrated. For local standards their bread is better than the horrors of American store-bought bread. I bought two baguette loaves at Willy Street Coop on Thursday evening. By Friday morning the baguettes were hard. This tells me that the bread was either already a day old when I bought it, or they don't know what they are doing. I spent three years in Germany and toured around Europe. Fresh baguettes do not behave like this. Batch Backhouse cannot match Madison Sourdough or Clausen's. The Baguette had large holes; it didn't really taste like anything. I would think it hadn't been given enough time to rest and develop flavor through longer fermentation, or like they hadn't started with a great yeast starter.
Don't forget to bring lots of cash. These people will rob you blind and will not pay their suppliers a fair price for their inputs.
The product at Willy Street cost $2.75 per loaf. The Batch Store charges $3.75 per loaf. Madison Sourdough is $3.50 per loaf and it looks larger. It is also sourdough, which is much better than what Batch offered. The girl at Batch said they only use the finest ingredients, (produced by Norwegian bachelor farmers). I asked her what the farmers got for a bushel of wheat, and she didn't know, and I told her I thought Batch was making very rich profits. I asked her if she knew the cost to make a loaf vs. the sales price. She didn't know the cost to produce a loaf.
In conclusion, The Baguettes of Batch are not good at all - Suggest one buys their breads at Madison Sourdough - Much, much better product at a cheaper price. I will not buy Batch products again