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

Draught Stable yellow-cream head over fully opaque brown-black beer. Roast, roasted grains (wheat, barley), hint of coffee and chocolate. Sweet roast, coffee-like bitterness. Dry finish, almost charcoal-like, but not overwhelming. Feels better bodied than it probably is. Slick and really dry finish. Nice, if not quite the black cow's milk.

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

Pours dark brown. Creamy mochawhite head. Scent is roasty, chocolate, fairly intense. Taste is full, roasty, sharp, chocolate. Coffee, bitter roastyness. Smooth body, medium low carbo.

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

22 August 2023. At Hal 16 (Dok Brewing). Shared with the lovely Anke!

A: hazy black, stable, foamy, beige head.
A: toast, tobacco, iron, mocha, biscuit.
T: sweetish brambleberry, mocha, biscuit, bitter coffee roast, metallic note.
F: earthy hops, toast, mocha, cream, tobacco.
P: medium body, slick-creamy texture, soft carbonation.
Utterly balanced, nothing wrong here.

Nice!

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

20/VII/23 - on tap, shared @ DOK Brewing Company, BB: n/a (2023-442)

Rather cloudy red brown beer, solid creamy beige head, very stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: very malty, grains, cow fodder, gentle roast, some caramel, nutty, chocolate notes, nice! MF: no carbon, medium to light body. Taste: soft roast, caramel malts, grains, hay, coffee, some chocolate, gentle bitterness. Aftertaste: dry, pretty metallic, caramel malts, grains, hay, cow fodder, dry bitter finish.

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

Oatmeal porter by Dok, tasted from tap at their new venue in the Patershol quarter, De Welkom, from nitro tap. Yellowish beige, evidently very dense, medium thick, creamy 'nitro' head, jet black robe with a glimpse of ruddy-reddish brown under bright light. Aroma of espresso powder, roasted walnuts, wet leather, homemade cola somewhere, oatmeal porridge, unsugared chewing gum, bayleaf, dried blackberries. Dryish onset, dried prunes and figs, vague elderberry sweetishness, very fine-bubbled, 'creamy' nitrogen effervescence, utterly smooth and silky also from the oatmeal; roasted-nutty, slightly bitter-chocolatey, burnt brown-bready core, roasted coffee bitter effects in the end along with something dry and leathery, as well as leafy hops accentuating the roastiness. The creaminess from both nitro tap and oatmeal keep things from becoming too sharp, but then this is roasty enough to qualify as an ordinary oatmeal stout rather than porter as well - but we all know this discussion is useless. In any case very 'Anglo-Saxon', very smooth, simple but effective - an unadorned but very accomplished black one and I love it.