7

Bit too sour for my tastebuds

8.4

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

7/I/22 - 75cl bottle @ Wim VL’s place, BB: n/a (2022-35) Thanks to Meeki for sharing the bottle!

Cloudy yellow blond beer, small creamy irregular off-white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: funky, herbal, oxidized, citrus notes, very fruity, peaches, apricot, wood notes. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: nice acidity, lots of citrus, bitter, grapefruit, juicy, dry, green apples. Aftertaste: nice bitterness, lots of grapefruit, bit sourish, lots of citrus, dry finish, lovely beer!

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Small, not overly stable light-yellow head over darker golden beer, clear. Rather strong citrussy & lactic sourish smell, fresh, but just a tad... forced? Gradually mildering however, acquiring spicy (lemonthyme, salicornia, lemonbalm...) and fruity (grapes, mainly, but also grapefruit, unripe peach) properties - and lactic as yoghurt. Sour, if restrained; spicy, if subtle. All former aromas returning in the flavour, plus unripe passion fruit, lemon, grapeskin, unripe Reine Claude. Faintly not-quite-dry hay, barnyard odours, sallow, fruityoghurt. Very sparkling, light but not thin, bit (fruit)slick. Excellent, no discussion, despite my initial reservations about its presentation. Only thing I still don't get is the French blabla on the label - unless they wanted to refer to the local soccerclub. Seriously, beautiful beer.

8.6

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

The ultimate result of the lovely beer festival held at Dok’s premises in Ghent in July 2019: a wheat beer aged in white wine barrels and then refermented with a mix of yeast cultures from breweries which participated in the festival, including Cantillon, Schneeeule, Nevel, ‘t Verzet and Tanker – a festive ‘wild’ beer indeed, now released in 75 cl bottles, but very limitedly so. Snow white, foamy, mousy, shred-lacing, largely stable head on a cloudy straw blonde beer with warm peachy hue. Complex, wonderfully fruity and indeed ‘wild’ aroma of unripe peach, kefir, green mandarin, dry white wine, grape skin, crabapple, sour white yoghurt, lime, damp hay, medlar, raw pineapple, wet leather, garden weeds. Estery onset, lots of peach, gooseberry and unripe pineapple, sour with a soothing sweet core, lively carbonated in a refined, sparkling wine-like way; fruity lactic sourness, a tad lemony, accompanies a supple bready malt core and carries along all these fruity impressions, which develop further along the road (red apple, green plum, berries) to a drying, quenching finish, where some lovely sweaty and hayish, Bretty funkiness appears. Fruity, juicy but dry, sour finish, lemony aspects lingering as well as grape and floral and ‘weedy’ aspects. Impressive: Dok managed to merge all these wild and mixed yeast cultures into one consistent whole, delivering a wonderful sour ale with layered complexity and still high drinkability thanks to the perfect balance of sweet and sour fruitiness. Sparkling, vibrant, complex wild ale: if this is indeed the starting point of a new line of wild Dok beers, then they will see even more of me in the future than they already did… A true 'chef d'oeuvre' and Dok’s most ambitious product so far for me.

8.3

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

Pours unclear strawyellow. Small to no white head. Scent is Passion fruit, hay, lemon, mild wheat. Taste is tart, hay, wheat, balanced sourness. oaky. buttery, but it works very well. Lactic acid, but doesnt lack complexity. Very mild traces of acetic acid. intense experience, medium fullbodied, medium carbo. Certainly unique, full of character, and not giving away its ABV.