Amber En Beter
Dok Brewing Company in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Regular|
Score
6.65
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed Amber En Beter from Dok Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
25 June 2021. At Dok Brewing Company. Cheers Anke & PIeter! Clear amber, thin, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of red apple, raisin, ripe pear, plum, brioche, green tea, caramel. Taste has sweet apple, pear & plum in a caramelly, brioche-like malt body along bitter orange peel, herbal tea & some coriander (sourishness). Herbal hoppy finish, more pear, caramel, perfumey orange peel & chamomile, very soft liqueur alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation. Hugely drinkable with just the right amount of the - often dreaded - coriander.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Amber En Beter from Dok Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
'Amber tripel' (so close to a Walloon style 'ambrée', I reckon) flavoured with not only the obligatory coriander seed, but chamomile as well; another of these more accessible beers with which Dok intends to cater for the ordinary, traditional Belgian beer drinker rather than the craft beer enthusiast. Medium thick, off-white, opening head lacing in shreds over a misty amber-tinged but actually more 'dark peach blonde' beer. Aroma of indeed coriander seed, less chamomile but still very noticeable as a generic 'field flower' scent, bread crust, soggy peanuts, apple peel, rainwater, rusk, green banana, freshly cut grass. Spritzy onset, strong and even bit numbing, very minerally carbonation, some sweetish banana peel, unripe peach and green pear notes but only restrainedly so and remaining very clean for the intended style; slick, rounded mouthfeel, cereally, rusk- and bread crust-like malts with peanutty edge but not the true 'amber' feel, flavoured with spicy coriander seed and flowery, herbal chamomile before a rooty, dried grapefruit peel-like, long bitterness unfolds. Alcohol remains completely hidden. As usual when Dok tackles the Belgian blond / tripel / amber paradigm, this Amber en Beter has remained very clean and low in esters compared with typical Belgian-brewed examples, as if some American craft brewery would have done it (something I suspect is a kind of compliment as well, depending on how you look at it); what I mostly miss here, however, is a more outspoken 'amber' character (and hue) - more amber malt in the malt bill would have given a much better result, I think.
Tom (2085) ticked Amber En Beter from Dok Brewing Company 4 years ago
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Amber En Beter from Dok Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
7/VII/21 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent), BB: n/a (2021-595)
Clear deep orange beer, small creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: malty, grains, cow fodder, metallic touch, banana peel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet and malty start, grains, some caramel, pretty bitter, bit metallic, ripe banana. Aftertaste: bit sweet, ripe banana, malty, bitter, grains, rural character, cow fodder, metallic touch, decent.