I Shot the Cherry
Dok Brewing Company in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Special|
Score
7.11
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The beer was first soured in the boiling kettle with Lactobacillus Helveticus and fermented afterwards on 37°C with Sigmund Voss Kveik.
After main fermentation we added 200grams per liter of cherries, hence the deep red colour. We then let it lager for three weeks on vanilla beans (Madagascar)
In our taproom, we serve this beer on nitro.
A deep red, sweet & sour beer of 7,5 % with cherries in the spotlight, sided by touches of vanilla and almonds. An complex combo of aroma’s and flavours you wouldn’t necessarily expect in a sour beer.
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Ungstrup (52110) reviewed I Shot the Cherry from Dok Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft. A red beer with a pink head. The aroma has notes of cherries, brett, lactose, and malt. The flavor is sour with notes of lactose, brett, cherries, and malt, leading to a tart finish
nathanvc (6963) reviewed I Shot the Cherry from Dok Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
1 March 2020. At Dok Brewing Company, with the lovely Anke. Pours hazy red with a lasting, thick, foamy, pink head. Aroma of sweet & sour cherry (jam), vanilla, yoghurt, sorbet, strawberry (ice cream), dough. Taste has sweet & sour cherry, mixed into a thick profile of yoghurt, sorbet & jam, hint of vanilla, some sour redcurrant for balance too with vague wheat. Tart, yoghurty & doughy finish, creamy but still very fruity & sour cherry-like, virtually no hops. Medium body, creamy texture, soft-flat carbonation. Very original brew in which all components successfully play their part - I think this is what Dok does best.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed I Shot the Cherry from Dok Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
New fruit beer by Dok Brewing Company, intended as a – wait for it – ‘pastry cherry sour’. It seems that ‘pastry’ idea, heralded by Omnipollo for (originally) strong stouts, has begun to spread by dribs and drabs to other beer styles, as this is not the first non-stout I encounter with the ‘pastry’ tag attached to it. Anyway: a kettle sour with cherries, flavoured with vanilla and containing lactose (unfermentable milk sugar – hence the ‘pastry’ association), tapped from one of Dok’s nitro taps at the end of the bar in Hal 16. Mousy, lovely lilac-fuchsia coloured, dense and closed, creamy head (‘nitro head’ indeed) over a misty, deep ruby red glowing beer. Aroma of cherry skin and cherry juice, whipped cream, some vanilla indeed, grenadine, lemon flesh, redcurrant, blackberry jam, rainwater. Sweet and sour onset, both candied cherry sweetness and fleshy black cherry acidity, soft carb thanks to the nitro tapping – the softness of course further enhanced by a creamy lactose effect, though the lactic and fruit sourness works against this creaminess, even if it remains relatively soft and ‘on top’ rather than deeply penetrating the whole beer. Cereally and wheaty-bready, slender malt base, dry finish thanks to the fruit acidity more than lactic tartness; vanilla pushes through retronasally, but quite subtly so. Departing from the earlier Frambo IV, this fruit creation by Dok is both quite original (I haven’t seen lactose in a kettle sour so far – or any other kind of sour beer, for that matter) and enjoyable, with generous, fleshy fruit sourness and brightness being the key component. Delightful and very idiosyncratic ‘kriekske’…
DirDec (2083) ticked I Shot the Cherry from Dok Brewing Company 5 years ago
tderoeck (22711) reviewed I Shot the Cherry from Dok Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
18/II/20 - on nitro tap @ DOK Brewing Company (Ghent), BB: n/a (2020-145) Thanks to Janos for the pre-tasting! ;)
Pretty cloudy deep ruby red beer, small creamy pink head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of vanilla, petit-beurre biscuits (butter biscuits), bit fruity, some raspberry and cherry jam, nice stuff! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity start, nice acidity, lots of cherries, some jam, sourish, little bitter, quite some sweet ripe cherries, raspberry jam. Aftertaste: little bitter, quite some vanilla, dry, lemon peel, fruity, some tannins, cherry flavoured candy without being sweet or sugary.