7.4

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Can at home from Malt Attacks, Brussels, 14th September 2025. Pours a light yellow straw. Aroma is aromatic and citrus. Taste is light and refreshing, citrus and aromatic

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Can at De Republiek Brugge. Hazy pale gold colour lasting white head. Its an OK pale ale a bit weird on the initial flavour. Some cereal thing going on. Its then some floral fragrant citrus fruit and flowers. Some lime zest
Quote bitter on the finish. Not entirely harmonious. OK.

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

On tap at The Republic Brugge. Hazy gold colour lasting white head. Grapefruit aroma. Reminds me of an apa or an ipa PNW style. Yep very tasty pale ale. Moderate bitterness on the finish. Very drinkable

7.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Gusher. Color: Hazy golden, fast diminishing large white head. Aroma: Apple, stable-like funk, hoppy and spicy hints. Taste: Quite smooth mouthfeel, apple, wood, stable and horse manure like funk, tannins, subtle hoppy and spicy notes. Very dry astringent finish. Moderate tart and light to moderate bitterness. Medium body, just below average carbonation. Nice one!

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Can. Color: Black, light brown head. Aroma: Dark roasted caramel, dark chocolate. Taste: Very smooth, just over medium body. Dark roasted malt, floral hop notes, notes of chocolate and some coffee. Over moderate to medium sweet and bitter. Salty oysters? Some salty hints, mostly at the finish. That's all. But overall this is a nice one again from Dok Brewing.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

The legendary oyster stout, probably more myth than truth, is one style particularity Dok had not tackled yet - until now, and rightly done by filtering the beer over actual oyster shells. Draught at their Welkom café. Medium thick, pale greyish beige, moussey, opening head on a jet black robe. Aroma of espresso powder, cold black coffee, burnt toast, black chocolate, soy sauce, roasted walnuts, charcoal, salmiak, black pepper, brown bread, dry caramel, whisky - but hardly any of the saltiness one would expect from the premise (justly so - if the shells are used as a filter bed, then they should not interfere with the flavour to begin with. Sweetish, rounded onset, dried fig, blackberry, raisin but less sugary, softly carbonated with a very full, oily body; a soy sauce note shows up early, but not in a very thoroughly umami-like way and not too emphatically salty either. Deep toasted brown-bready malts with caramelly edge, quickly shifting to full-blown roasted chicory bitterness, black coffee- and blackened toast-like, with a black pepper-like hoppiness for good measure, all tied together by whisky-like, warming alcohol which remains well in place. The soy sauce note continues, but does not dominate, while all the other flavours too remain in good balance. Potent, deliciously old school roasty imperial stout, basically - and to me one of the best brewed by Dok in quite a while.

7.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Dok presenting a grisette again, the light-bodied blonde quencher of Walloon miners from bygone days - and to me one of the most useless 'style revivals' in modern craft beer, because it usually comes down to something either Belgian blonde- or saison-like with no specific set of distinctive features - and on top of that, who cares anyway, because nobody still alive today was already around when grisettes were an actual living tradition... Can from the Delhaize supermarket at the Sterre in Ghent. Irregular, frothy, very pillowy, cobweb-lacing, snow white head over a misty yellow blonde robe with greenish tinge. Aroma of freshly baked white bread, mown lawn, fresh lemongrass, lemonbalm, fresh chamomile, lemon zest, chalky touch, edible violet flowers, hints of wet sand and dry cracked limestone. Quite 'juicy' onset, low in sweetness but still 'green'-fruity, unripe peach, green pear, slightly sourish undertone from carbonation, harshening an otherwise soft, even slightly fluffy mouthfeel. Grainy pale maltiness with a soft white-bready core, under growing hop bitterness, floral, a bit rooty and zesty, bringing citrus pith-, slight lemongrass-, dandelion- and chamomile-like vibes. The hops then deposit a long, drying, quenching, rooty bitterness, which nonetheless remains mellowed by the malts. Utterly quenching summery beer, an ISA-like 'hopsapje' of sorts I guess - the fact that Dok itself uses this rather derogatory term in their own description of this creation on social media probably means they do not take it too seriously themselves. Not bad, in all, though there is no doubt in my mind that if we could bring back an obdurate grisette drinker from way back then with a time machine and serve him this, he would probably not even recognise it as a member of his preferred beer style...

8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8