Van De Velde Weet Het
Dok Brewing Company in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed Van De Velde Weet Het from Dok Brewing Company 1 week ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
One of Dok's "uytzet" variants, referring to a historical beer style once typical for Ghent and / or Wetteren (the debate is still on) - it shows, among many other things, how well aware Dok is of international craft beer tendencies, because reviving or even resurrecting historical beers is one of the many aspects of 'craft beer' (think of Hair of the Dog's Adam, to name one of the great classics in this respect). Contrary to what Paeleman already did back in the late nineties with his Uitzet 1730 (and I am confident that Dok acknowledges Paeleman's merit of bringing this forgotten style back to the attention of the consumer back then), Dok takes their self-imposed endeavour very seriously, going as far as to search the university library for historical traces of this once popular beer style - a library housed in the iconic Ghent Boekentoren ('book tower'), a modernist building designed by the architect Henry Van de Velde, which brings us back to this particular variant. Comes from a can and is "heavily hopped" with noble hops, both young (Spalter Select was developed in 1993 so before the advent of craft beer in Europe, but still fairly recently) and old. Medium thick, snow white, beautifully 'kant'-like lacing, opening but otherwise very stable head on an initially clear, warm 'metallic' orange-golden robe with amberish glow, misty and deeper orange with sediment. Aroma of brown bread slices, croissants, dried apple peel, biscuit, sweetclover, unripe pear, dry straw, mace, Betterfood, old dried orange peel, bruschetta, roses, chamomile, yam. Crisp onset, restrained in fruity esters (for a traditional Belgian ale style at least) but underneath the surface, quite a lot of flavour is brooding, varying from dried apple peel and hard pear to persimmon and unripe peach, moving into a minerally carbonated, deeply bready core, croissant- and a bit biscuit-like, soft and moist brown bread slices, dryish and then confidently bittered by floral, earthy hops, a tad rooty in the end but remaining tasteful and balanced, with lots of field flower associations (chamomile, clover, blossoming grasses) - the kind of Flemish countryside meadow one dreams about, but is mostly an idyll of the past. A kind of 'juicy minerality' runs through it all and keeps lingering on the tongue. I have stated this before with regard to these uytzet beers by Dok: if there was ever a brewery destined to revive this Ghentian (or 'Wetterse') style, it is them. This one is beautiful in its pairing of earthiness with fraîcheur - I think Henry Van de Velde, provided the man enjoyed beer at all, could have been very happy with it. Cheers to 'his' Boekentoren, a building I observe with fondness at least once a week, as well - that too brings back memories...
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can in the Eurostar, Brussels to London 1st August 2025. Pours a brown colour. Aroma is malty, roasted malts. Taste is bitter and malty, roasty, light caramel. Very interesting, reminded me of a lower ABV Arrogant Bastard
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5
Roodbruin bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is bitter hoppig en licht kruidig met iets van gras en wat brood en citrus.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
0.33 l can from 'DeBiersalon.nl', best before February 2026. Hazy, golden orange with a medium large, dense, almost stable, off-white head. Sweetish, gently fruity-floral aroma of orange jam, tea and some honey. Slightly sweet, malty, moderately bitter, gently fruity-floral taste of grains, straw, orange and rea, followed by a short, gently bitter, slightly dry finish. Medium body, very smooth and slightly creamy mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Interesting to try, pleasant to drink.
Szeppp (7579) ticked Van De Velde Weet Het from Dok Brewing Company 5 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Can 33cl. @home poured into a shaker. Clear pale to medium amber colour, good creamy off-white head, half-way lasting, fair lacing. Quite complex aroma, sweet malt, caramel, biscuit, herbal notes, grassy hops, some citrus, straw, on the whole earthy impression. Taste medium sweet and light bitter, malty, biscuit, herbal and bitter earthy notes. Light to medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation, lingering bitter aftertaste, husky notes, rustic feel and character, nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
20 February 2025. At Hal 16 (Dok Brewing). Cheers to the Teamleader crew!
A: clear amber, stable, foamy, off-white head.
A: red apple peel, rusk, pink grapefruit, jute, green olive, grass.
T: sweetish red apple, unripe pear, biscuit, rusk.
F: bitter earthy & resinous hops, rusk & toast.
P: medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation.
Packs a punch at only 4.4%.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Van De Velde Weet Het from Dok Brewing Company 7 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
33cl can from Rob the Gourmets’ Market in Brussels.
F: medium, egg-white, average retention.
C: deep gold, hazy.
A: malty, orange herbal, bready and caramel touch.
T: medium malty base, nice balanced herbal hoppy bit raw bitterness, grapefruits, bit bready, medium carbonation, if you like it bitter it is ok, enjoyed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
5/II/25 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent), BB: n/a (2025-101)
Clear orange to amber beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: malty, caramel malts. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice, fruity, clean malt bill, hoppy, bitter, some ripe pears. Aftertaste: more fruity notes, some strawberry jam, resinous, bitter, some caramel, slightly sweet, very pleasant malt-forward beer!