Checkpoint
Dok Brewing Company in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Boundary Brewing (NI)Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Special
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Score
7.02
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed Checkpoint from Dok Brewing Company 3 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
26 July 2025. At Café De Welkom, Ghent. Cheers to Anke & Pieter!
A: hazy yellow, stable, frothy, white head.
A: cold french fries, cracker, wheat, apple, scallion.
T: sweetish apple, plum & kiwi; wheat, bread crust.
F: dry, bitter grassy hops, apple peel, citrus pith.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Bitter, yet accessible and quenching; not Dok's best, but perhaps just not really my thing.
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Checkpoint from Dok Brewing Company 4 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
33cl can, BB 15/05/2026, lot# DOK254.
Pâle sur un col épais crémeux blanc bien tenace.
Arôme sur un bon bouquet herbacé, pot-pourri, avec une petite pointe tropicale en support - menthe e tune sensation de rondeur céréalier en rétro-nasal laissant penser à un côté oatmeal bfast paquet de céréales.
Palais sur une belle note houblonnée que je trouve florale à souhait - un peu sur un effet bouquet - herbacé en infusion de thé, qcq notes d'agrumes - crisp fini terreux avec une sensation de bourgeon fleuri en fin de bouche. Petite note de menthe aussi présente tout en ayant un côté biscuité en support avec les houblons.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Checkpoint from Dok Brewing Company 7 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Belgian 'lichtblond', as the old OBP would say, but of the bitter kind, so I have hopes of encountering something along the lines of Reninge Bitter Blond, Bink Blond, Ara Bier or even XX Bitter, who knows... Comes from a can, contains raw wheat (atypically) and is apparently a collab with Boundary, one of the best known microbreweries in Northern Ireland. Huge, foamy, snow white, 'bath-moussey', cobweb-lacing, slowly and gracefully receding head over a hazed yellow blonde beer with warmer apricot tinge. Aroma of green pear, dry spiced crackers, chamomile, white clover flowers and sweetclover, dried grapefruit rind, bitter honey, ciabatta, unripe peach, apple peel, something vaguely guava-ish in the background (very subtle yet still quite refreshing). Crisp, fruity onset, very restrainedly sweetish with notes of unripe apricot, some green banana and hard pear, but also a vague echo of citrus fruit (grapefruit pith) announcing what is to come; lively, minerally, I suppose 'Belgian' carbonation with 'crystalline' effect without becoming actually painful. Smooth grainy pale maltiness with a thin white-bready edge from the unmalted wheat, which adds a very soft, very 'basic' and 'unspoken' sour touch but close to none of the soapiness I tend to associate with it; instead, the flavours are bundled together to a drying, hoppy and indeed notably bitter, long finish, in which, aromatically speaking, floral aspects (field flowers like white clover, chamomile, white campion) meets grassiness (tall oat-grass) but no New World fanciness, though a vague echo of dried citrus zest may be there. The spicy, long, rooty bitterness never becomes too herbal or wry: though extended for a long time, it remains remarkably elegant, carrying with it these modest fruity notes and sweetish pale malty flavours. This is actually very well made: simplicity is never easy, contradictory as that may seem, but here Dok and Boundary present a deceptively 'easy' beer perfected to the last detail. The bitterness is long and strong, but remains elegant and mitigated by well-measured 'wheatiness' and fruitiness; though perhaps far less spectacular in its basic make-up than the many IPAs, sours and stouts both Dok and Boundary have brought forth in their years of existence (eight and eleven respectively), it is an easygoing yet nowhere boring quencher made so technically perfect that it would not bother me to drink it all night on a summer afternoon.
Bierridder (4318) ticked Checkpoint from Dok Brewing Company 8 months ago