Hard To Get Maker's Mark Bourbon Barrel Aged
Dok Brewing Company in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Imperial Special|
Score
7.21
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Een rijke, royale, volmondige, dikke stout van maar liefst 11,5%. De rijpingstijd op vers geleegde Makers Mark bourbonvaten heeft dit bier heel goed gedaan. Toetsen van vanille, kokosnoot en hout maken dit bier nog voller en extravaganter dan het al was daarvoor.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours black, small tanned head. Scent is full, roasty and chocolate, bourbon, mild wood. Taste is full, bit 'aged' somehow. Roasty, chocolate, bit ashy, umami, medium BA profile. Medium thick body and medium carbo.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
18 March 2022. At Hal 16 (Dok Brewing). Cheers to the Teamleader crew!
Cloudy black, thin, beige head. Aroma of melting fondant, dark fudge, pecan, praliné, date, varnish, macadamia, sugared espresso, wet wood, vanilla, bourbon, green apple. Taste has very sweet date & prune, dark-chocolatey malt base with notes of macadamia, toast & fudge, bit herbal, woody. Earthy hoppy finish, phenols popping up, lingering dried fruit, sugared fondant, wet wood and boozy bourbon alcohol. Medium to full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Definitely my cup of tea but quite heavy and too young (ageing could work away the acetaldehyde note for me).
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
One of Dok’s more recent strong stouts, Hard To Get, aged in bourbon barrels – and sold in 75 cl bottles at the brewery’s premises of Dok Noord. Thanks to the Gentse Biervereniging crew for sharing! Medium thick, moussy, pale greyish beige, opening head on a black robe with hazy mahogany edges. Boozy, solventy and sweet aroma of hot chocolate sauce and chocolate liqueur, strong ‘old furniture’ woodiness, furniture wax, varnish, clear bourbon, toffee, toasted coconut, brown bread dough, vanilla, sugared tea, latté macchiato, roasted chestnuts. Dense, sweet onset, candied dates, even a slight ‘Belgian chocolates’ effect but without becoming overly sticky, medium carb, oily body but clearly thinned by alcohol; caramelly, pecan-nutty and dark-chocolatey malts, in itself a lovely combo, but strongly heated by eventually quite wry and astringent bourbon. Strong woodiness too, tannic and vanilla-like, in this case accentuating the wryness of the alcohol; some herbal hops underneath and a coffee-like roasty touch providing bitterness, but also prominent solventiness, as in wood glue or varnish. Ambitious, but still too boozy and wry, too heavy on the bourbon – but I am confident that this beer has great ageing potential and will turn out fine within half a year or even a whole year from now. I hope I will be able to revisit it by then…
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
28/I/22 - 75cl bottle @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent), BB: 14/XI/24 (2022-103)
Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: alcohol, vanilla, bit sweet, roasted in the nose. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: alcohol, bit medicinal, tannins, bitter, lots of caramel, whisky, unpleasant bitterness. Aftertaste: alcohol, caramel, dark chocolate, good roast, unpleasant bitterness, whisky, lots of alcohol, bitter tannins, sweet chocolate notes.