7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Explosive gushing (-2 points) to huge off-white head over veiled orange-golden beer. End of bottle solid yeast. Very lacey. Agave, sage, sherry, old casks, noble rot, spilled wine. Salve, sage, sparadrap, again old wine casks. Bay leaf, poplar leaves. And lots of Bretts, very obvious, no floormop variety, more Orval-like, olives. Bit sticky MF, well bodied for its 6.5%, but still some acidthinning. Overcarbonated. Great. Simply great, pity about the gushing. And then the name... DOK is already master in naming, but this one had me rolling over the floor, even when it is obvious in retrospect. Too bad it is utterly untranslatable.

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Slow but very persistent gusher. Even after 3 glasses the bottle keeps overflowing with foam. Scent is mostly brett. Taste is quite sharp and dry. Brett, notes of oak. Very distant wine character from the sauterness. Px remains hidden. Very decent as a brett beer, but the specific barrels dont shine enough to meet the expectations set by the description and name. Very overcarbed , obviously.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

18 August 2023 At Hal 16 (Dok). Cheers to the Teamleader crew!

A: hazy orange, small, frothy, off-white head.
A: apricot skin, blood orange, grape, green apple, artisan jam.
T: sour apricot, plum & orange flesh, jam, biscuit, leather.
F: grassy & herbal hops, almost spicy; citrus peel & hay.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Interesting Wild Ale in its own right, although I'm missing some of the barrel treatment here. Worth revisiting.

7

Tasty... But needs some more fine-tuning

8

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

17/XI/21 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company, BB: n/a (2021-1457)

Rather cloudy orange to amber beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very fruity, sweet touch, bit funky, quite some brett notes, woody impression, sourish touch. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: brett notes, sour start, some tannins, little bitter. Aftertaste: fruity, some berries, bitter, hoppy touch, some tannins, sour and dry finish.

7.8

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

‘Wild’ ale by Dok, so (re)fermented with Brettanomyces; from tap at Dok’s premises in Ghent. Egg-white, moussy, tiny-bubbled, opening head on a cloudy ‘dark’ orangey-peach blonde beer with deep ruddy-amber hue – the colour of Orval, not coincidentally. Aroma of stale urine the full-blown ‘Brett’ way, horseblanket, damp haystack, apple peel, soggy bread crust, peanuts, sweat, dried apricot, black peppercorns, hint of ‘putteke’ (sewer water) when warming up. Fruity onset, dried berries, apple peel and apricot, fizzy carbonation (on the sharp side) accentuating a mild sourish undertone; rounded peanutty, leathery, lightly toasty and bread-crusty malts heavily dried by the Brett, which adds all its retronasal funkiness in the end, horseblanket and goat stable galore, paired with long, black-peppery, wormwoody hop bitterness further drying the finish. Quite complex, very Brett-forward indeed, hoppy and nutty-malty as well with a ‘full’, satisfying character – the similarities with Orval are all around, and seem to be no coincidence as this beer is apparently intended as a tribute to the most eccentric of all traditional trappist beers. If anything, this Dok version of the ‘Orval style’ (consisting of Orval and its select club of mimics, epigones and tributes) seems more intense than the original, certainly in the Brett department, which is very outspoken here. Good one, though perhaps just a tad ‘too’ wild if such a thing is conceivable, with those sulfuric notes piercing through in the end.