Plum stones, alcohol, watery melon, bitter, wtf

Magus, mango, piuviljane, mõru, tsitrus, linnaseline, alks, kuiv, nats hapukas, vürtsine. Ok.

9/III/23 - on tap @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent), BB: n/a (2023-222)

Clear copper orange beer, small to no head. Aroma: surprisingly fruity, some strawberry jam, a bit of caramel, sugary impression, some vanilla notes. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, very malty, a little metallic, a hint of banana, bitter, pears. Aftertaste: sugary, lychee, bitter, a bit metallic, sharp bitterness, woody, tobacco, lots of alcohol, some peach flavoured candy.

Draught @ NISHA Craft Riga Aroma has bretta vibes and orange. Flavour has orange marmalade, bretta tones, biscuits. Not exactly ny thing, I wonder if the bretta is intentional?

Bottle at the flat in Sofia - picked up from 100 Beers. Pours clear brown with a lasting, creamy beige topping. Lightly sweet with moderate roast, bitter earth, light cocoa, burnt pine, orange rind. Medium bodied with massaging carbonation. Finishes with further earth, bitter ashy roast, dry burnt pine. Nice overall.

Collab of Dok with a traditional Lithuanian farmhouse brewery – a largely unknown beer world Dok’s head brewer Janos has ventured in several times in the past already – flavoured with horseradish, a flavour I am all too familiar with as I basically grew up with these plants (and their roots) in my grandmother’s garden. Snow white, thin and open, loosely structured head, misty warm ‘old golden’ robe with apricot tinge. Aroma of Belgian pickles or English piccalilli (very strongly so and no doubt coming from that horseradish), crisps with pickles flavour, French fries (with piccalilli), horseradish paste as such too, green apple, curry soup, unripe pear, white bread. Crisp onset, sweetish pineapple and pear notes with clear sourish undertone (green apple), medium carbonated with smooth, rather oily body; cereally pale maltiness, a tad sweetish but countered by that sourish undertone and pronounced spicy horseradish which again shouts ‘Belgian pickles’ retronasally. Some floral hops ensue, but actual bitterness remains altogether soft for the intended genre. I do not recall ever having had a horseradish beer so an interesting one it is – but I was not expecting a Belgian pickles aroma to dominate… This will not be for everyone, I think, and I personally would have preferred a bit more hops for bitterness in the finish. Still an original and fascinating beer, though.

Redish brown color with small White head. Malt, caramel, fruits, spices. Light sweetness. Bit alco in taste and finish. Average body, oily texture

Tap at Alaus Biblioteka, Vilnius. Hazy orange colour and small white head. Sweetish tropical fruits, kiwi in the nose. Medium-bodied. Fresh and juicy. Pineapple, mango and kiwi. Quite good.