6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Draught, taster. @Dok Brewing, Gent (Belgium). 04/09/2022 [#5.355 Global - #194 Belgium - #4 Dok Brewing Company] Pours dark brown with a beige head. Aroma: raisins, plum and soft coconut. Taste: mild coconut, roasted malts and burnt caramel. Next one please!

6

On tap. A hazy orange brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of mild coconut, dark brown malt. Taste of dark caramelized malt, nuts, mild coconut, moderate bitterness.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

23 January 2022. At Hal 16 (Dok Brewing). Shared with the lovely Anke.

Hazy dark brown, thin, tan head. Aroma of raisin, plum, Coca-Cola, mocha, milk chocolate, toasted coco flakes, almond, vague nutmeg. Taste has sweet plum, fig & raisin in a chocolatey & caramelly malt body with nutty accents. Toasty, herbal hoppy finish, more toasted coco flakes, nuts and mocha. Medium body, creamy texture, average carbonation. I would expect that the coco adds something refreshing but that's not the case here, however, it's not a bad beer in itself.

7.4

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Pours caramelly brown, small white head. Scent is full, tad roasty, chocolate, typical brown ale nuttyness. Not to clear on the coco to me - yet others dissagree with that statement. I just think it's not very specific, more a generic nuttyness - or to be specific to what I taste, the brown peel of a roasted hazelnut , for some reason. Taste is medium sharp, chocolate, tad bitter, fall-leaves. Bit to the dry side, yet has some sweetness. Very mild on the coconut.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

23/XI/21 - on tap @ HoReCa Expo (Gent), BB: n/a (2021-1469) Thanks to the Ghent beer posse for sharing today’s beers!

Little cloudy dark red brown beer, big solid creamy beige head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice roast, lots of cocoa powder, hint of caramel. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty start, grains, good roast, some caramel, little sourish, chocolate touch, nice bitterness. Aftertaste: soft roast, chocolate, little bitter, soft acidity, hint of coconut. Coconut is present but rather subtle…

7.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Brown ale (in the stylistic, Anglo-Saxon sense of the word) flavoured with coconut, one of Dok’s newest to date. Tiny-bubbled, creamy but thin and open, cream white head on a murky chocolate brown beer with burgundy glow. Aroma of wet toast, old coffee filters, sweating butter (diacetyl, I guess), sweat, moldy acorn shells from a damp forest floor, overripe blackberries, spoiled coconut flakes but no convincing ‘real’ and tropical coconut odour, petrichor, old rubber, mud. Estery, bit ‘dirty’ onset, elderberry, ripe pear and medlar accents, spritzy carbonation with a somewhat powdery aspect and sourish undertone – things which, combined with looks and smell, clearly point at bacterial interference. Pecan-nutty, brown-bready and toasty malts, a touch of toasted coconut (again, much more than actual coconut aroma which is all but absent); toasted malt bitterishness, ‘dirty’ yeasty notes and a leafy hop bitter aspect in the finish. Feels dirty and infected, too bad, as this is a good idea; I might repeat the experience, though, just to see how this will evolve over time.