Cold Digger
Dok Brewing Company in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium đ§đȘ
IPA Regular|
Score
7.12
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nathanvc (5932) reviewed Cold Digger from Dok Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Dok Brewing Company. Clear golden, stable, foamy, off-white head. Aroma of unripe pear, pine, onion peel, bread crust, yeast, citrus peel and herbs. Taste has sweetish unripe apple, mandarin, physalis, herbal & yeasty with a zesty sourish touch over bready malts. Piney hoppy finish, slightly grapefruity, rather dry, yeasty. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Inoffensive in aroma but rounded in taste. Okay, cool stuff (pun intended).
Alengrin (10989) reviewed Cold Digger from Dok Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Dok Brewing Company is often among the first in Belgium to pick up on new beer styles and trends emerging abroad â and I havenât checked, but I am almost certain this is the first âcold IPAâ brewed on Belgian soil. The idea behind cold IPA, âinventedâ by Wayfinderâs Kevin Davey in 2018, is to showcase the hops without interference from other elements such as yeast effects â an idea similar to IPL (India pale lager), but the difference is that cold IPA is still technically an ale because it is brewed with ale yeast, albeit at lower temperatures so as to reduce ester production. Some of them are, however, brewed with lager yeasts, but then temperatures are kept higher than in traditional lager brewing â so that in this case too, one ends up with something in between an ale and a lager (compare with California common, or even Alt and Kölsch, different as these styles â and their brewing techniques â may be). The end result should in any case be dry, clean and crisp, as an âantithesis to hazy IPAâ to quote the inventor â but similar things were said about brut IPA as well and so far, I do not see brut IPA enjoying a huge amount of success⊠Anyway: cold IPA from a chilled can on a chilly winter day at Dokâs Hal 16, my first encounter with the style. Thick and frothy, egg-white, creamy, stable head, lightly hazed deep and pure âold-goldenâ robe with lively sparkling. Aroma of mandarin peel, withering lemonbalm, soggy biscuit, fried tomato peel, lemon thyme, lychee, hints of dry toasted onion and cooked potato. Indeed clean, crisp, sleek onset, vague persimmon-like aspect but no esters, citrus peel accents from the hops, fizzy carb through a slick, smooth, oily body; biscuity and cracker-like, but slender maltiness with a very subtle toasty-bitterish edge, connecting with a spicy hop finish, grapefruity and bitter herb-like without being too harsh, remaining elegant and smooth with retronasal aspects of pink peppercorn and light orange pith. Indeed free of top-fermented âdistractionsâ, very IPL-like (albeit maltier than I am typically used to from IPL), focused and refreshing â a lovely clean IPA indeed and for all I know, because this is my first example in the new style, a well-executed example.
tderoeck (20818) reviewed Cold Digger from Dok Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
15/I/22 - 33cl can from DOK Brewing Company (Gent), shared @ home, BB: nothing on the can (2022-77)
Clear gold blond beer, big creamy white bit irregular head, stable, little to non adhesive. Aroma: pretty malty nose at first, little fruity, some mango, little dank, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty start, very bitter, dry, bit grassy, medicinal bitterness, hoppy. Aftertaste: malty profile, grains, very bitter, hoppy, bit resinous, grassy, bit medicinal almost, dry, wry finish, good one.
Kraddel (15451) reviewed Cold Digger from Dok Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours clear blonde, big white stable head. Scent is sharp, fresh, green hops. Refined. Taste is sharp, very clean. mild bitterness. Refined fruityness. Aromatic, spicy, noble-like hops. Rather bitter. lovely !