On tap at DOK Ghent. Hazy orange gold colour lasting white head. Yes some orange flavour some spice. Softer than what I was expecting. Not as wheat forward as some wits. Good bitterness on the finish. Some sweetness. Some more 🍊. OK.

2 February 2024. At Hal 16 (Dok Brewing). Cheers to the Teamleader crew!

A: hazy yellow, thin, white head.
A: coriander seed, wheat, orange zest, soap.
T: sourish yellow apple, orange, coriander & wheat.
F: soft grassy hops, unripe yellow fruit, citrus zest, spices.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Balanced Witbier (which will never really be my preferred style anyway).

New witbier by Dok, with the name being a phonetic play on ‘coriander’, the seed of which is a staple ingredient in witbier at least since the sixties. Snow white, dense, medium thick, stable head hazy apricot-golden robe (a tad darker than your typical Hoegaarden-standard wit). Aroma of indeed clear coriander seed (more spicy than soapy here), brioche bread, honeydew, orange peel, damp straw, ripe pear, grass. Fruity onset, sweetish with notes of pear, pineapple and light melon, with typical sourish wheat undertone which never becomes too soapy; sharp carbonation, smooth biscuity core with that wheat factor continuing, more slick and white-bready than soapy as said, working towards a gently but clearly coriander-spicy finish in which dried orange peel adds fraîcheur and a grassy, straw-ish hop bitterness is added, much more emphatically so than in a classic Hoegaarden-style witbier but actually working together well with the spicing. Sweetish fruitiness and rounded wheat slickness also continue, the whole constituting a smooth, quite pungent ‘blancheke’ – but in a bready, grainy, spicy way feeling altogether different from the old Hoegaarden standard; Abbaye des Rocs’ Blanche des Honnelles and other early ‘deviations’ from Pierre Celis’s standard peep around the corner. Oddly classic and modern at the same time, in a way.

Draught No head left; hazy yellowish golden beer. Dry herbal flavour. Some citrus, but not really coriander-y. Sweet with a faint, probably wheaty acidity. Fruitdrops and citrus, citruspeel. Light body, better carbonatedt than it looks, wheatslickness. The kind of wit I like.

Pours unclear yellow. Scent is coriander, with a sharp edge to it. Milder on the wheat. Taste is very fresh, not very clear on the wheat . Bit bitter, coriander. Decent. Quite 4VG, but still fairly refreshing.

27/IX/23 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent), BB: n/a (2023-786)

Cloudy blond beer, creamy white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very floral, yeasty character, more floral notes, a bit fruity. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, very fruity, lots of forest fruits, a bit yeasty, more floral notes. Aftertaste: a little soapy, fruity, forest fruits, sweet touch, soft bitterness, some coriander, good witbier!