Sweet, malty, alcohol, bitter, grainy, chestnuts

Dark brown colour with thin head. Has a strong sweet edge of caramel and red fruit jam. Also subtle roasted bitterness and earthy, green, piney hop too.

33cl can from Etre Gourmet web shop. F: big, creamy, pale tanned, good retention. C: dark brown. A: orange, bit pine, chocolate touch, caramel, bit onion effect. T: full malty base, tangerine, bit chocolate, pine resin, red apples peels, bit caramel, long lasting harmonic bitterness, nice, enjoyed.

Pours fairly dark, chocolaty brown. Medium sized, slightly cream-colored head. Scent is european hops (spicy), some fruity aspects as well, mild dark malts but they show enough to make them recognizable. Taste is fairly bitter, soft roast (chocolate, creamy, not ashy) . Medium bitter. Rediculously easy to drink, hiding the alcohol extremely well. Fairly creamy body. Perfect bitterness level. I like this one very much indeed !

29/I/21 - 33cl can from DOK Brewing Company (Ghent), shared @ home, BB: 16/XII/21 (2021-94)

Clear deep red brown beer, big creamy beige head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice, hoppy, some citrus notes, bit dank, resinous, cheesy touch, funky, sweaty feet. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very bitter, bit resinous, dry, spicy, hoppy, malty, caramel, some chocolate. Aftertaste: malty, grains, bit smoky, caramel, very bitter and resinous hops, dry, bit earthy, some citrus, grapefruit.

Dark IPA – or ‘Cascadian dark ale’ – by Dok Brewing Company in Ghent, thanks Meeki for sharing. Medium thick, pale greyish beige, mousy but opening head, misty dark bronze robe with brownish-copper hue (but not at all black!). Aroma of pine resin, toasted onion, hard caramel, some burnt toast, roses, apple peel, dried orange peel. Sweetish onset but restrained in fruitiness, raisins, fig and apple peel, lively carbonated, with smooth and bit oily mouthfeel; hard-caramelly and toasty-bitter maltiness, the bitterness eventually accentuated by hop bitterness, of a peppery and bit piney to wormwood character. Caramelly and toasty malt bittersweetness remains the dominant flavour also in the end, though. Well-hopped in an old school way – in a certain sense, this is closer to West Coast IPA than Dok’ter Who-Hoo, the other new Dok beer (in collaboration with Uiltje) thas is explicitly intended as one… As for ‘black IPA’, though: call it a brown IPA if you want, but this clearly isn’t black.