Weizen Bij De Brandweer
Dok Brewing Company in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Weizen - Hefeweizen Special Out of Production|
Score
6.81
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We kept the bittering hops quite low but we added 5 grams per liter of Loral and Rakau to balance out the Germane Weizen yeast.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
4 January 2020. At Dok Brewing Company, Ghent. Shared with the lovely Anke! Clear pale golden, lasting, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of green & ripe banana, apple peel, yeast, breadcrust, unripe pear, wheat, vague soap. Taste has sweetish banana & apple on bready-biscuity maltiness, constant undercurrent of sourish wheat before a decent bitterness of grass & spices kicks in, leading to a dry, earthy hoppy finish, lingering wheat, banana & a hint of clove, but not necessarily phenolic. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Balanced & hoppy Weizen, quality by Dok, but lacks some peculiarity.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
2/II/20 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent), BB: n/a (2020-111)
Clear blond beer, big creamy dense white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: malty, grains, hay, some cow fodder, wheat acidity, some bubble gum, banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty malty, soft bitterness, some banana, bit grassy. Aftertaste: more ripe banana, bit sweet, bubble gum, grains, malty, bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Hopfenweisse (hoppy Hefeweizen, often recognized as a separate style ever since Schneider and Brooklyn got together to create the first one and thus deviate from the old Hefeweizen standard, which traditionally is only subtly hopped) by Dok Brewing Company in Ghent. Thick and foamy, snow white, stable, frothy, membrane-lacing head, hazy ochre-tinged deep golden blonde robe. Aroma of ripe banana, banana-flavoured candy even, apple sauce, clove, sweetclover flowers, camomile tea, sugared white bread, soap, melon, hints of yellow kiwi and orange peel. Crisp, fruity onset with pronounced banana ester though less dominant than expected based on the nose, apple touch, sharply stinging carbonation (a bit much so even for this usually well-attenuated style), very minerally; smooth, soapy wheatiness, cereally ‘white-breadiness’ in a clean way, hop bitter finish, long and rooty in the end, floral but otherwise not too exuberant in aromatics. Nice balance of sweetness and bitterness but overcarbonated and a bit too clean (needs a somewhat yeastier profile) and could perhaps do with a more New World-oriented and more aromatic hop profile? Pleasant and easily drinkable beer, though.