Score
6.83
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On tap at scrapyard. Hazy red-ish beer, small head. Aroma is strawberry, wheat, bit tart. Taste is the same, strawberry, tart, dry. Nice one
Pours unclear amber. Small white head. Scent is strawberry jam - sweet. Taste is fairly sharp, tad bitter. Funky strawberry. Bit jammy. The yeast doesn't really work (at all) , it's way to phenolic. Bitterness doesn't match the strawberry at all, creating a whole mess as an endresult.
Dark orange with a pinkish hue and a creamy head. Aroma and flavour deliver on the strawberry as promised. A little sharp like white unripe strawberry but there's enough sweetness to keep it in balance.
25 June 2021. At Dok Brewing Company. Cheers Anke & PIeter! Hazy orange/red, small, frothy, pinkish head. Aroma of strawberry jam, raspberry, fruit cake, red apple, yoghurt, vague lemon peel. Taste has sweetish strawberry & raspberry, sour redcurrant & soft lemon acid, sourdough-malty base. Tart, strawberry finish, jam-like, some citrus, lingering soft acidity. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Good one, flavoured in a natural way.
Draught Pinkish-amberish tinted head, very dense, over hazy reddish foxy beer. Perfumey nose, almost pachouli-like, fruity but not necessarily strawberry. Other grains, rice wafers, oats. Bit pharmaceutical strawberry flavour. Lightly sourish, as fruit-flavoured buttermilk. Not-quite-ripe strawberries in the finish. Light if quite slick. Good carbonation. Reasonably long-lasting flavours. OK, pas plus .
19/XII/20 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent), BB: n/a (2020-1138)
Pretty clear deep orange to red beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: quite some strawberry jam, little oxidized, acidic impression, yeasty, little funky, spicy touch. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice acidity, strawberry flavour, bubble gum (but not overpowering), good bitterness, grapefruit, citrus, some strawberry candy. Aftertaste: good dry finish, pleasant acidity, refreshing, good fresh strawberry flavour, hint of strawberry jam, not sweet or sugary though. Very nice!
Dok's new fruit beer, described as a strawberry smoothie Weizen - I am increasingly lost when it comes to beer styles these days, it seems... I guess this can be described as a Belgian style witbier with fruit (many of those have been produced in the past twenty-five years or so, think Haacht's Mystic or Huyghe's Floris series), but with actual fruit instead of artificial fruit flavours or industrial juice, and with the sweet factor provided by unfermentable lactose - a craft-inspired, artisanal and 'honest' version of e.g. Floris Fraise as it were, though admittedly such a comparison does not do Dok any honour, of course... Medium sized, mousy, off-white, slowly breaking and thinning, open head on a cloudy orange beer with salmon-pinkish tinge. Aroma of indeed a ton of ripe strawberries, actual (fresh) strawberry juice, blood orange, milk powder, cooked apple, honey, white bread slices, quince jam, soggy biscuit and - apologies - Fanta Strawberry or something alike, though without the off-putting industrial and artificial aspects of it. Lots of actual fresh strawberry flavour in the mouth, sweet and a bit sour, with the natural acidity of the fruit interestingly played out against the sweetness of the lactose; peach and blood orange impressions as well. Softish carb, supple and lean body, a thinly biscuity and more rounded white bready malt core soaked in strawberry juice, with the lactose sweetness cleverly accentuating the smoothness of the oats. Ends a bit lemonade-like but in a very convincingly 'homemade' and natural kind of way, with lots of real fruit lingering about, and the sweet aspect sticking a little bit to the teeth; a vague and brief note of bitterness does appear in the end, turning things back to a more 'beery' base. Interesting sweet fruit beer - I guess catering to the people that will no doubt ask for industrial sweet beers every now and then ('zoete kriek' and the like), but at the same time true to Dok's craft identity. A clever find, though perhaps not my personal cup of tea.