Druugdok 2023
Dok Brewing Company in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Cider - Graff Regular|
Score
7.16
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Together with Druug's cider makers, we joined forces to create a graf (cider-beer hybrid). A true balancing act to showcase the best of both drinks. We decided to make a blend of a hoppy rye saison from us with a wood-aged cider from them.
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EvNa (5983) reviewed Druugdok 2023 from Dok Brewing Company 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Gusher. Color: Hazy golden, fast diminishing large white head. Aroma: Apple, stable-like funk, hoppy and spicy hints. Taste: Quite smooth mouthfeel, apple, wood, stable and horse manure like funk, tannins, subtle hoppy and spicy notes. Very dry astringent finish. Moderate tart and light to moderate bitterness. Medium body, just below average carbonation. Nice one!
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Druugdok 2023 from Dok Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled 'graf' (blend of beer with cider) in what is apparently the starting point of an intended yearly collab of Dok with Druug, a young Ghent cidery located in the Arteveldepark neighborhood, where Ghent's renowned Ghelamco football stadium (now called Planet Group Arena) is located, as well as the headquarters of Ivago, the city's garbage service... Bottle shared at Dok's brewpub in Hal 16. Medium thick, moussey, snow white, opening head over a misty yellow blonde robe with apple-greenish tinge. Aroma of apple peel and dry cider of course, unripe pear, drying white bread, apple blossoms, green plum, dandelions, hay, vague hint of chicken broth somewhere. Crisp onset, very 'green-fruity' with notes of yellow plum, gooseberry, Granny Smith apple and green pear, fizzily carbonated with slender white-bready malts mingled with a vinous apple wine core, the cider seemingly 'thinning' the whole a bit, but also souring and drying it with very refreshing effect. Lively finish, still very apple- and hard pear-like but also with a floral, sweetclover- and chamomile-like hoppiness, adding mild but supporting bitterness to lingering 'green' and fruity, juicy tartness. I am not the greatest cider drinker and this kind of blends with other things than beer rarely do it for me, but this is admittedly well done for what it intends to be. Curious what will come out of this collaborative project next year.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Druugdok 2023 from Dok Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
20/III/24 - 75cl bottle, shared @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent), BB: n/a (2024-173)
Clear light blond yellow beer, big creamy white head, a little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very funky smell, spicy, dry impression, sour apples. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: very refreshing, acidic, fruity, sour apples, funky, nice, a little bitter, some tannins, bitter touch. Aftertaste: lots of green sour apples, very refreshing, pretty dry, a little lemony, more fruity, pears, gentle bitterness, good acidity, nice stuff!