24 November 2018. 5de Winters Bierfestival Waregem. Deputy Taster: Anke. Hazy brown, reddish, with a lasting, frothy, tan head; some lacing. Aroma of caramel, peanut, earth & wet leaves, pear syrup, candied prune, cookie, toast & licorice. Taste is light caramelly sweet, syrupy, a bit fruity but rather restrained; and light to medium herbal bitter with earty & nutty tones, faintly lemony sour too, some spicy cookie & licorice, green tea even. Dryish, herbal hoppy finish, faint spices, lingering earth, nuts & toast. Medium body, slick to oily texture, soft carbonation. There could have been more of that Lambic but it's an enjoyable, unusual, rather bitter Brown Ale in its own right.

19 May 2018. At De Heeren van Liedekercke. Shared with Anke.
Pours hazy golden with a lasting, foamy, white head; little lacing. Fresh aroma of honey, wheat, grain, citrus, bready malt, yeast, apple & pineapple. It tastes light to medium grainy bitter and light fruity sweet, hints of pineapple, honey & yeast. Dry, grainy finish, nowhere wry, bit hoppy with lingering wheat & bread. Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation. A beer I like to call an 'ennobled Pale Lager', comparable to Vicaris Quinto: blond, low ABV, quenching, with an artisan feel to it.

Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A hazy pale golden beer with a small white head. Aroma of mild sweet grainy malt and wheat. Taste of mild grainy malt, soft sweet malt, hints of honey.

Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A clear amber beer with a small white head. Aroma of toasted malt, some reddish malt. Taste of mild caramelish malt, nuts, mild bitter hops.

Sampled @ Zythos Bier Festival 2018. A clear orange brown beer with a mid sized good lasting beige head. Aroma of breadish malt, spices, some metallic hops. Taste of mild spicy caramelish malt, bread, caramel.

Brown beer in this new series, spiced with seeds of paradise, liquorice and orange zest and enriched - according to the brewer - with a splash of Girardin lambic, tasted at ZBF. Thin, pale yellowish beige, loose, almost immediately vanishing head over a bronze brown beer with ruddy-vermillion tinge. Aroma of wet walnuts, dried banana, some light DMS (cooked cabbage), wet dog, moist tea bags, liquorice candy, coriander seed (but actually the seeds of paradise), bread crust, dry earth, tomato peel. Restrainedly sweetish onset with a mellow sourish edge (yet nothing explicitly reminiscent of lambic), fizzy carb, smooth and bit resinous body; dried pear, light banana and walnut impressions, nutty and caramelly maltiness with a light bitterish toasted edge, spicy liquorice and seeds of paradise noticeable, more so than the orange zest, which fails to bring the refreshing brightness I was hoping for; herbal hop bitterish finish, phenols, vague warming alcohol. Lambic presence remains virtual. If more lambic was added, this could have been an interesting, true 'versnijbier' with an oud bruin-like profile, seems like a missed opportunity really.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Dok's Bruin (by Brouwerij Dok's):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3/5

28/IV/18 - shared @ Zythos Bierfestival 2018 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-569) Thanks to the ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!

Clear dark amber to red brownish beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty roasted, some coffee, malty touch, more roast. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: caramel, bit sweetish, more roasted notes, malty. Aftertaste: bit roasted, malty, caramel, not getting any of this Girardin lambiek?

Imported from my RateBeer account as Dok's Amber (by Brouwerij Dok's):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.9/5

28/IV/18 - shared @ Zythos Bierfestival 2018 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-568) Thanks to the ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!

Clear orange beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet malts, grains, cow fodder, some caramel, little spicy. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty, cow fodder, bit sourish, acidic, mainly grains. Aftertaste: bit spciy, soft bitterness, grains, malty, bit metallic.