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Dok Brewing Company in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Siren Craft BrewIPA - West Coast Regular
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Score
7.08
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120 IBU, dus aan bitterheid geen gebrek… bijna nostalgisch zo een bittere West-Coast IPA.
Stuk voor stuk, klassieke hopvariëteiten maar dan in moderne uitvoering. State-of-the-art hoptechnologie in een glas. Gebruikte hoppen: Centennial, Centennial cryo, Simcoe Dynaboost en Amarillo CGX en Citra.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Hopduvel.
A: hazy golden, thin, white head.
A: lemonbalm, melon, pine, hashish, chewing gum, grapefruit.
T: sweet melon, bitter grapefruit, dank cheese & hashish.
F: piney hops, grapefruit, dank & herbal mint.
P: medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation.
Enjoyably bitter & dank, chuggable.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
33cl can from Rob The Gourmets' Market in Brussels.
F: medium, white, average retention.
C: pale gold, hazy.
A: nice citrus, grapefruits, mango, herbal hoppy, bit onion effect.
T: medium malty base, mango, pomelo, bit roasted onion, herbal hoppy, guava, nice balanced bitterness yet this 120 IBU is well hidden here, medium carbonation, this is not bad yet it sounds crazy somehow still more on the sweet side, enjoyed.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Blik 33cl thuis. Tropisch fruit, hoppig, juicy, bitters, grapefruit, citrus, mango, passievrucht, pomelo, zoeten, malttonen. (7-6-2025).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Dok had the honour of receiving the Siren crew recently - living proof of the respect Dok gets from established craft breweries - so needless to say, a collaboration brew came out of that, in the form of this West Coast IPA, boasting 120 IBUs in hop bitterness and using such classic New World hop varieties as Centennial, Simcoe, Amarillo and Citra (some of which in 'updated' or adapted form). There was a time when West Coast IPA was about the only type of IPA available anywhere apart from the scarce remainders of historical English IPA and I myself have learned (gradually) to appreciate 'American hoppiness' two decades ago by West Coast IPAs and DIPAs, when NEIPA and its offspring simply did not exist yet, so I am very curious to find out how two fine breweries like Dok and Siren interpret this pioneering style. Can from Delhaize Gent Ster. Medium thick, very stable, egg-white, tiny-bubbled and densely structured, shred-lacing head, slowly showing a few gaps over a misty yellow blonde robe with vaguely khaki tinge. Aroma of pomelo, some guava, green mango, freshly mown lawn, dried out bread crumbs, sweet red onion stewed for six hours, olive oil, stale (or even bacterially infected) orange juice, something 'deeply' sweaty, overripe shallot, hints of paraffin, clarified butter and potato juice. Sweetish but refreshing onset, citrusy in a sweet-sultry-ish way (pomelo), hints of guava and mango with a dash of pineapple, minerally carb but nothing too harsh, smooth and slick mouthfeel; cereally pale maltiness, sweetish again, with this - mainly 'hoppy' - fruitiness continuing, very faint biscuity note somewhere, all moving into a confident, grapefruity, peppery, bit rooty hop bitterness which lasts for a long time, but not as long as the more expressive examples of oldskool West Coast IPA, and not nearly as sharply and thoroughly so. Instead, lots of this hazy IPA fruitiness lasts, with mango, pomelo and even a whiff of lychee still hanging around minutes later. A notably powdery mouthfeel persists as well. Pleasant enough to drink, very pleasant even (hence my high score here), but this is no West Coast IPA to me, in spite of the line-up of oldskool US hops: this is again one of those present-day would-be West Coasts, essentially still 'genetically' hazy IPAs in the New England idiom but made more bitter. Strange how West Coast IPA is making a certain return these days, out of nostalgia perhaps, and how most contemporary attempts end up being essentially above-average-hop-bitter NEIPAs... After all, this is not the seventeenth century we are talking about: West Coast IPA in its original form was the dominant IPA style until only a decade ago... I do not get it, am I really the only one longing for one of those ultra-bitter, non-hazy, grapefruit peel- and wormwood-like, clean, oily 'original' American style IPAs? Anyone else out there who remembers and misses them?...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12/IV/25 - 33cl can from DOK Brewing (Gent), shared @ holiday in France, BB: 15/III/26 (2025-345)
Slightly cloudy yellow blond beer, small creamy irregular off-white head, a little stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: nice, juicy, tropical fruits, lots of mango, some bubble gum, ripe banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: yeasty start, banana, at first it tastes like a Westmalle really, good bitterness, a little grassy, more banana, hoppy, herbal touch. Aftertaste: very bitter, a bit resinous, piny touch, almost chemical bitterness, fruity notes, pleasant and drinkable, but not great. Smells better than it tastes.