Cloudy pale yellow colour and small white head. Light peppery aroma. Light-bodied. Very watery, light pepper and pale malts. ZincFest26.

ZincFest2026. Yellowish golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is grassy and some mild earthy tones and a bit citrus. Flavour is grains, some herbal and mild earthy tones. Quite watery and thin mouthfeel.

A variation on the grisette theme, a beer style from the early 20th century, when there were at least fifty around, mostly in the Hainaut province; this saison relative went extinct in World War II though its name (and name only) survived in Friart's portfolio (the Saint-Feuillien brewery); only with the advent of the U.S.-driven craft beer movement did some Belgian brewers begin to reach back to this forgotten style, reviving it and creating variations on it like this New Zealand-hopped, low-alcohol Dok interpretation. Can bought in some supermarket in Ghent, canned in late January so exactly four months old now. Thick, frothy, snow white, firm, bit irregularly edged, slightly paper-lacing, thinning but stable head on a lightly hazed, pale straw blonde robe with lemon-yellow glow. Aroma of pomelo zest, lime peel, 'mock' mojito, kaffir lime leaf, raw broad beans, lemon orchard (probably that typical "whole orchard" effect of the Rakau), chayote, pear skin, unripe white grapes, raw quince, water mint, fresh white bread dough. Dryishly green-fruity onset, crisp and refreshing, lively carbonated with agreeable minerality running through the whole; flavours reminiscent of chayote, cucumber, green pear and pomelo, slender green-cereally core, picking up a grassy and cucumber peel-like effect as it goes down - ending with a confident, somewhat powdery (from dryness, not from hop burn), 'pale green' hoppiness filling the final stage of this beer completely, with retronasal aromas of kaffir lime leaf, green guava and lemon blossom and with a tenacious grapefruity, even rooty bitterness cleansing whatever limited sweetishness there was (hardly any, for that matter). A feisty little beer, at 'tripel tafelbier' strength this packs a lot of flavour, which does not surprise me from Dok anymore, but it does so in a well-informed, knowledgeable way. That said, I remain totally unimpressed with that 'grisette' thing: if there are still elderly people alive today who drank actual grisette when it was still a 'living' style, theoretically possible since I believe the last historical grisette was discontinued somewhere in the seventies (correct me if I am wrong), then I dare Dok to offer them a sample of this and see if they react with any sign of recognition. This is more a low alcohol IPA of sorts if you ask me, but I hasten to admit that 'IPA' too is a term all too broadly used today so this probably creates a whole new discussion I am not willing to participate in - but whatever it is, it is a characterful quencher and one I would happily drink by the gallon in the upcoming Ghentian summer.