6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

On tap at DOK brewing Gent. very dark brown ruby beer thin tan head. Malty quad style aroma. A spicy Belgian dark. Ginger and liquorice flavours. Well the base beer is fine. not sure about the spices. some heat towards the end. different.

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Tap. Hazy brown color with beige head. Aroma is raisins, plums, candied sugar, intense. Taste is the same. Oily mouthfeel, natural carbonation. A bit too much for me.

7

keg at the t tap house Utrecht... dark black... thin tan lacing.. soft sweet chocolate Roast.. herbal malts nose... dark sweet woody chocolate roast malts

6.8

Liqourice is the first thing that hits. Then it has this dry thinness, while somehow having an artificial sweetness. Overall it’s fine, but i wouldn’t buy again. Het lagerhuys ams

7.5

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

10 September 2021. At Dok Brewing Company. Cheers to the Teamleader colleagues!

Hazy dark brown, thin, tan head. Aroma of burnt caramel, molasses, liquorice, dried banana, pear syrup, wet wood, date, brown rum, vague toast. Taste has sweet date, pear & banana in a syrupy, caramelly, almost molasses-like malt body that is also slightly toasty & nutty with a careful hint of spicy phenols. Herbal hoppy finish, spicy liquorice popping up quickly, mostly molasses but extra bitterness coming from nutty and rum-like alcohol notes. Medium body, thin syrupy texture, average carbonation. That 'dark' aspect is certainly welcome in this traditional style. To me, this would be a nice-to-have permanent Dok beer.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

15/IX/21 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent), BB: n/a (2021-1090)

Clear deep brown beer with a purple hue, small aery irregular beige head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots and lots of overripe banana, alcohol, some band-aid, bit chemical, caramel, dirty yeast profile. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very dry start (surprisingly!), pretty roasted, coffee, some cocoa, charcoal, very bitter, bit chemical, hoppy? Aftertaste: more roast, very bitter, very dry, cocoa powder, some charcoal, bit chemical, yeasty finish, hint of caramel, some banana.

7.6

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

Strong dark ale - so a quadrupel, basically - as interpreted by Dok; from tap at their premises in Hal 16, Dok Noord, Ghent. Greyish pale beige, tiny-bubbled, open, thinnish head on a very dark chocolate brown beer with burgundy glow. Aroma of caramel, dried dates, old hazelnuts, young 'jenever', 'Koetjesreep', rainwater, damp tree leaves, chewing gum, accent of dusty old coffee powder. Sweet onset with dark-fruity notes, fig, date, dried blueberry hint, softish carb, full and very smooth, slick caramelly malt body with a thin layer of residual sweetness on top but generally very clean for this style, some chocolatey and toasty notes, even a vague and brief hint of coffee bitterness - before warming, gin-like alcohol and a herbal hop accent take over that role, still operating above an essentially caramelly-malt sweet core. Smooth, clean, sleek interpretation of what is intended to mimick broad-marketed commercial things like Kasteelbier, Gulden Draak, Delirium Nocturnum or Verboden Vrucht - and markedly differing from those thanks to that roasty coffee bitter touch, which, combined with that general cleanness and caramelliness, makes me associate this with a Scotch ('wee heavy' the 20th-century Belgian way) rather than quadrupel. Oh well, I guess something as vague as "Belgian strong dark ale" does the job of categorizing this beer best, which is fine with me.

7

Ultra licorice