What's Up Dok?
HaandBryggeriet (Norway) in Drammen, Buskerud, Norway 🇳🇴
Collab with: Dok Brewing CompanyStout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Special
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Score
7.48
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We are excited to introduce you to out latest collaboration, brewed with out dear fiends from DOK Brewing. Whats up DOK is a rich and decadent imperial stout brewed pilsner, pale chocolate malts and lactose. To give it a fruity aroma we added cherries and raspberries during fermentation. The result is a rich and flavorful aroma of chocolate and cocoa, balanced out by the fruit.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
Can to snifter.
Appearance: pours like motor oil and retains the black color in the glass with a thin cap of a tan foamy head which dissipated inward and didn't leave any lace
Aroma: rich milk chocolate and dark chocolate invade cherry and raspberry tart and sweet characters, subtle coffee roast and sweetness further in the back. Light toffee in there too.
Flavor: blends all the prior mentioned aromas to a nice sweet, tart and roasty quality; mild finish of milk chocolate, cherries and raspberries
Texture: medium bodied, good sipper, very smooth along the tongue and the tart harshness is very low
Overall: a very nicely done impy pastry stout I would be willing to come back to.
Can to snifter.
Appearance: pours like motor oil and retains the black color in the glass with a thin cap of a tan foamy head which dissipated inward and didn't leave any lace
Aroma: rich milk chocolate and dark chocolate invade cherry and raspberry tart and sweet characters, subtle coffee roast and sweetness further in the back. Light toffee in there too.
Flavor: blends all the prior mentioned aromas to a nice sweet, tart and roasty quality; mild finish of milk chocolate, cherries and raspberries
Texture: medium bodied, good sipper, very smooth along the tongue and the tart harshness is very low
Overall: a very nicely done impy pastry stout I would be willing to come back to.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Feb 2026
at 15:35
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 3.5
Lukt: Kaffe, urter. Utseende: Sort.. Skum/kullsyre: Tynt skum. Smak: Kaffe, lakris. Medium: Rating:2,5-54547, Tapp@300ml, ABV@10.8%, Når@09.05.2024. Hvor: Cirkus, Stavanger. HaandBryggeriet / DOK What`s Up Dok? Stout - Imperial Flavored / Pastry
Tried
from Draft
on 11 May 2024
at 17:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
EB - Can 330ml. @ [ (PBF XIII. Tasting.) by oh6gdx ] - Petalax, Finland. [20230902] 7/4/7/4/13
Tried
from Can
on 03 Sep 2023
at 10:23
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can@PBF XIII. Black colour, small off-white head. Aroma is liquorice and some mild alcohol and quite sweet spices. Flavour is vanilla, lactose, some alcohol and liquorice. Boozy aftertaste.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Sep 2023
at 19:52
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can 330ml (PBF XIII)
Dark brown colour, small beige head. Sweetness, soya sauce, some smoke in the nose. Medium-bodied. Flavour is similar: very sweet toasted malts with soya sauce. Simple.
Dark brown colour, small beige head. Sweetness, soya sauce, some smoke in the nose. Medium-bodied. Flavour is similar: very sweet toasted malts with soya sauce. Simple.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Sep 2023
at 19:48
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
--Canned at PBF XIII. -- Black, small brown head. Aroma of frozen raspberries and toffee. Very sweet with full body and rounded mouthfeel. Milk chocolate and toffee, frozen raspberries and yoghurt. Syrupy finish.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Sep 2023
at 19:48
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33cl can. PBF XIII. Poured near black in color. Lactose, vanilla and sweetness. Some soy and raspberries. OK blend with raspberries really, but too sweet.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Sep 2023
at 19:45
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Thank you Chris for this can - Black with a brown head - Dark malt with chocolat and berry aroma - Dark malt body with chocoalte and a nice berry flavour as well - The dark malt and berries continues into a long finish with hints of alcohol heat - This was good
Tried
from Can
on 30 Mar 2023
at 17:33
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours black, small, fast fading tanned head. Scent is full, roasty, tartness from the fruits. Smooth. Taste is full, roasty, mild nuts. Mild marzepan. A touch of fruits. OK. Not my style of pastry, but well made.
Tried
on 07 May 2022
at 10:19
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Pastry stout brewed at good old Norwegian Haandbryggeriet in collaboration with Dok from my home town of Ghent, available from cans now at Dok’s Hal 16. Thanks Meeki for sharing. Deep ruddy-mocha coloured, open, dissipating head on a jet black beer. Aroma of caramel liqueur, beef stock, walnut oil, brownies, liquorish, marshmallows, black cherries, old dusty almonds, dry tree leaves, black cherries. Very sweet onset, a bit on the sticky side (but hey, it’s a pastry stout after all), candied fig under impressions of marshmallows and ‘speculoos’, softly carbonated with thick, syrupy body; toffeeish, Ersatz-chocolatey, almondy maltiness with a chocolatey core, finally revealing the added fruit – in a sweet, syrupy, jam- or coulis-like way, raspberry as in grenadine, plum candy. This accentuates the sweetness even further, lingering on with a warming, port-like alcohol heat and almost no discernable hop bitterness. Fruit cake stout of sorts, and even if I could argue that the fruit could be better exposed with a dash more sourness to alleviate the heavy sweetness, it was the ‘side effects’ that bothered me most – the beef stock-like umami, and that earthy, herbal, leafy aspect I remember from the Haandbryggeriet beers I had in the past. Acceptable for what it is, but could have been much better for me.
Tried
on 04 Feb 2022
at 12:46