Nice tangy peach. Lemon. Mellow acidity. Pretty clean and fresh. Fairly tame complexity. Enjoyable.

Novel. Fairly bitter. Some toasted grains, grass, dirty hay. Faint yeast expression, a little raisin. Drinks fine.

Really tasty. A little sweet. Rich dark malts, a little earthy, raisins, dark fruits. Mellow boozy warmth. Sound.

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...

22 November 2025. GBV Tasting: Struise en kaas feat. Tim DR (Jan Yoens). Cheers to the whole crew!

A: hazy pale yellow, thin, off-white head.
A: passion fruit, lime, pineapple, pale malt.
T: sweetish mandarin, sourish lime, bread crust.
F: grassy hops, bread, unripe tropical fruits.
P: light to medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation.
Pretty okay.