Doenkere
Brouwerij Leste in Boom, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Dubbel Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.37
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Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Doenkere from Brouwerij Leste 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Very stable, dense, cream-coloured head over fully opaque dark brown beer. Rainwater, parsley, liquorice announcing itself, brown bread. Liquorice indeed, but dry, hardly sweet. Again brown bread, human sweat, maltsyrup (without excessive sweet). More dry than bitter. Well-carbonated, feels light for a 7+ % beer. Quite (grist)slick. Good try, but somehow I fear it does not quite reach the intended goal.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Doenkere from Brouwerij Leste 8 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Leste Doenkere (by Brouwerij Leste):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 1/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.5/5
24/XII/17 - 33cl bottle, shared @ home, Christmas eve - BB: 6/2021 (? year is all smudged up, impossible to read) (2017-2228) Thanks to Jerre for the bottle!
The glass top ring of the bottle broke off upon opening, so had to pour through a paper towel to filter out any possible glass shards. Clear red brown beer, big irregular off-white head, little stable. Aroma: malty, lots of caramel, bit spicy. MF: no carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty, lots of green banana, unpleasant bitterness, very metallic, slightly roasted. Aftertaste: caramel, banana, yeast, metallic finish, malty, not sweet though.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Doenkere from Brouwerij Leste 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
28/07/2017 @ home - 33cl bottle shared by jerre. Dark amber, foam quickly fading. Soft typical nose and taste : dark malts, caramel, low roast.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Doenkere from Brouwerij Leste 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Pours caramelly Brown, small white head. Smell is sweet. Yeasty. Taste is Sharp, rather bitter. Coffee , malty, some caramel, bit sweet in the back.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Doenkere from Brouwerij Leste 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
The first one from this quiet micro brewery, which apparently has been in existence since 2012 and claims to brew only at their own premises. Bottle from Frui Vita in Hemiksem. Medium thick, moussy, off-white head breaking in the middle but leaving a thin veil of foam on top of a translucently copper coloured beer with mahogany hue, almost clear at first with persistent but ’fine’ sparkling. Aroma of caramel, candied fig, red cabbage with brown sugar (vague DMS?), coriander seed, liquorish candy, very strong phenols (nail polish or freshly varnished furniture), calvados, clear and somewhat disturbing FFF (freshly fermented farmland - in other words, ’fresh’ manure), dried thyme, baked banana, hazelnut oil, stock cube, aniseed, candied cherry, nutmeg, heavily sugared tea. Fruity onset of fig, pear, overripe elderberries, banana and passion fruit, sweetish and sourish but more of the latter, tingling carbonation and even a bit overcarbonated even for the style, adding minerally impressions; the fruity esters continue over a slick, supple maltiness, very caramelly with nutty and toasted accents, bittersweet and actually not that unpleasant, but in the finish the phenols retronasally cross the ’flavour border’ again, bringing things out of balance as expected when I sniffed the beer; a deep ’nuttiness’ continues along with the esters and phenols and some herbal hop bitterness leaving a spicy ’dryness’, further accentuated by badly hidden alcohol, becoming somewhat astringent and tiresome eventually, and leaving a light wryness on the root of the tongue, (fortunately?) more or less countered by lingering candi sugar sweetness. Aroma teems with off-flavours, flavour lacks balance and finesse, alcohol is badly hidden and there is no trace of inspiration or originality: I heard their other recipes (unsurprisingly including a tripel and a strong ’ambrée’) are already being distributed (very) locally, but I would recommend these undoubtedly enthusiastic people to finetune this one first before unleashing more unbalanced, almost amateurish brews onto their regional market.