Score
6.97
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Can from Dok. Hazy yellow, stable, foamy, white head. Aroma of unbaked bread, barley, wheat, grass, straw, yeast, dried apple peel. Taste has sweetish apple in a malty profile of cereal, bread and pale malt, bit yeasty and wheaty sour. Grassy hoppy finish, yeasty with lingering raw barley & wheat aspects. Light to medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation. Pleasantly refreshing.
Huge, light yellowish head, overflowing my "Stange"; pale golden beer. Creamy nose, bit gassy, pale and toasted malts, rather sweet and bready - the kamut definitely giving an extra edge. Quite hoppy, but again with a sweetish, bready underbuild. Green leaves, vegetables, weeds - mild but well-bittering, ink. Quite slick, light body, good to enthusiastic carbonation. Kölsch really seems a style the people at DOK seem to understand well, and it's not different with the kamut. Like it!
Pours unclear blonde. medium white head. Clingy and creamy. Scent is full, malty, crisp, bit creamy. Taste is full, mildly bitter, creamy, very grainy and 'raw' . The wheat doesn't show that specifically, but does give a different character to this traditional German style.
17/XI/21 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company, BB: n/a (2021-1454)
Cloudy blond beer, small creamy white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: pretty malty up front, hay, cow fodder, some paint, solvents. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, grains, hay, nice bitterness, bit sourish, fruity touch, pleasant! Aftertaste: bitter, grains, sweet and malty, a little watery, citrus touch, nice!
New Dok beer, top fermented but lagered at low temperature in order to mimick Kölsch – but brewed with oriental or Khorasan wheat, an ancient wheat species also known as ‘Kamut’ and still used marginally for organic bread and things like that; in itself not so far-fetched, given that some of today’s Kölsch beers are still brewed with small portions of wheat, an ingredient which was probably even more prominent in the more distant past of this old beer style. Papery lacing, snow white, moussy, stable head, lightly hazy straw blonde robe with deep golden glow – looking a bit like a Wiess or unfermented Kölsch, in fact. Aroma of drying white bread, grass, margarine, sour cream, field bindweed and other wild flowers, bread crust and a sulfuric note not unlike freshly struck matches, possibly due to yeast autolysis. Cleanly fruity onset, notes of green pear and unripe banana, sharply stinging (even numbing) carbonation, clean pale malt sweetness with a pleasantly bread-crusty edge from the Kamut, ending with a grassy and floral hop bitter note among lingering minerally aspects. Clear, crisp and refreshing, very decent if perhaps a tad overcarbonated; breadier and more floral than Dok’s previous attempt at this style, which I believe was a bit more accurate, though perhaps less interesting for that reason.