Karamel De Stoute
Dok Brewing Company in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.94
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed Karamel De Stoute from Dok Brewing Company 8 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
20 February 2025. At Hal 16 (Dok Brewing). Cheers to the Teamleader crew!
A: hazy black, stable, foamy, beige head.
A: salted caramel, butterscotch, soy sauce, brownie, black olive, bourbon.
T: sweet-salty caramel, dark chocolate, cream, mocha, bit umami.
F: soft peppery hops, caramel, warming bourbon alcohol and a whiff of vanilla.
P: medium to full body, oily texture, soft carbonation.
Surprisingly, I'm getting less acetaldehyde than expected. Then again it's quite heavy on the caramel, and this ruins the barrel & general profile a bit for me.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Karamel De Stoute from Dok Brewing Company 11 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bourbon barrel aged imperial stout flavoured with salted caramel, one of Dok's recent beers, with a name playing a pun on Karel de Stoute - the name of a 15th-century Burgundian duke but also of a restaurant in the Patershol quarter in Ghent; the first of these reminds me of Filips de Stout, another recent flavoured stout named after a Burgundian duke, from another Flemish brewery (Rolling Hills). Coincidence, I guess. Had multiple of these from tap at Welkom. Densely structured, creamy, pale yellow-mocha beige, thinnish but well-retaining head over a pitch black beer with very dark chestnut brown shades. Aroma of dry caramel, bitter chocolate, vanilla-ish oak and bourbon aspects, toffee, brown bread, cashew nut paste, 'Babelutte' candy, bayleaf, vague liquorice, salmiak. Sweet, rounded onset, some raisn and dried prune, soft carb, clean and smooth; softish carb, full oily body. Layers of creamy caramel, bittersweet chocolate, fudge and almond ensue, sweet but not entirely 'pastry' sweet, with a pleasantly roasty-bitter accent in the end, dried further by altogether mellow woody tannins and warming bourbon. Sweetness, even with a sugary undertone, does continue, with caramel indeed being the prominent flavour - though always in balance with the malts. Saltiness remains very discreet but does add a drying accent against the sweetness, reinforcing both bitter and umami flavours rather than imposing an actually salty flavour. Smooth, 'dangerously' drinkable, dense and lean stout, I liked this one a lot and will certainly revisit it.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Karamel De Stoute from Dok Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Pours nearly black trough the very dark brown. Small white head. Scent is roasty, tar and ashy. Lots of soy. Intense but not as creamy or smooth as I like 'em. Taste is full, caramel, bit cloying. Lots of soy, robust, ashy, smokey almost. Not my thing.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Karamel De Stoute from Dok Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
27/IX/24 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent), BB: n/a (2024-1088)
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, pretty stable, a bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice, pretty malty, grains, some green apples, alcohol, a bit yeasty, some banana. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: pretty bitter, alcohol, lots of caramel, a bit sugary, roasted, yeasty, some green apples. Aftertaste: malty, pretty bitter, very roasted, banana peel, caramel, some chocolate, ok but not great, the acetaldehyde is ruining it for me.