8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

On tap @ 't Taphuys, Utrecht.
Black with a dense off-white head. Strong coffee and dark chocolate aroma with some sweet coffee and dried fruits. Sweet taste with a bitter roasty finish. Excellent no-nonsense imperial stout.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

28 May 2021. At Dok Brewing Company. Cheers to the colleagues! Hazy black, small, frothy, beige head. Aroma of fondant, toast, macadamia, prune, fig, brown bread, cold coffee, yeast, walnut shell. Taste has a restrained sweetness of fig & prune over a chocolatey & brown-bready malty base, bit nutty along powdery coffee. Earthy hoppy finish, lots of coffee roast, chocolate powder and warming rum-like alcohol. Full body, creamy texture, average carbonation. Simplicity is key and it was executed deftly.

8

Great!

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Strong coffee stout hopped with the notably fruity Hüll Melon variety, a new one from Dok Brewing company, tasted from a 75 cl bottle filled at the tap in Hal 16 - thanks Arthur. Thick and frothy, yellowish beige, mousy but dissolving and eventually all but disappearing head on a very dark chocolate brown beer, near black, but with a burgundy glow still visible. Aroma of indeed black coffee and lots of it, burnt toast, bitter chocolate, walnut cream, gin, black pepper, hard caramel, bayleaf, fresh rosemary, apple or indeed vague melon from the hops, light sweaty note in the background. Sweetish onset in a clean, streamlined, non-sticky way, fig, raisin and burnt currants, softish carb, with full and oily body. Smooth caramelly malt core with black-chocolatey and toasted-nutty layers built on top, with roasted bitterness growing towards the end especially when the added coffee effect sets in, spreading out over the finish, propelled by a warming, whisky-ish alcohol glow, lingering smooth caramelliness (even sweetness) and light spicy accents from the hops, with slight fruity notes retronasally. Straightforward but very solid coffee stout - the Hüll Melon is a bit lost in the whole and better befits IPAs and other pale-malted beers if you ask me, but this is in any case a hugely tasty no-nonsense stout from Dok - again.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

1/XI/20 - 75cl growler bottle from DOK Brewing Company (Gent), shared @ home, BB: n/a (2020-1023)

Clear dark brown to black beer, creamy dense beige head, very stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: good roast, dusty, coffee grit, very roasted, slightly sourish touch, some dark chocolate, dark burned caramel, malty touch. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body, creamy texture. Taste: good roast up front, slightly sweet, caramel malts, lots of dark chocolate, some alcohol, very nice! Aftertaste: some alcohol, bitter touch, slightly sourish, malty, rural character, some cow fodder, nice one!