Feral Jose the Gose

Brewed by Feral Brewing Co.
Style: Traditional Ale
Baskerville, Australia

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard

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Taste the wheat first up then some coriander which didn’t last, soft lemon notes then salt. Not a struggle to drink but the Rye IPA was the go on the day.

UPDATED: AUG 6, 2011 On draught at the brewery. Surprised as I had just kegged off a Gose-style a week earlier in the hope of finally tasting one, even if it was my own. Anyways, into a straight wall pint. Hazy sandy yellow with lots of carbonation pushing up a fluffy, pillowy white head that’s well held with good legs. Slightly metallic tinge on the nose, salty and sour lemon rind and crushed coriander, a little sharp for the nostrils but short-lived. Good whack of wheat malt on the palate, pasty, crisp, with biting effervescence, very lively. Dry in back, zesty, sour citrus notes are refreshing, very soft trails of salt draw at the side of the tongue but isn’t as sharp as I anticipated. Spiced coriander offers a some-what plasticy herbal note to it. Very light bodied, and served quite chilled it’s flavour isn’t free to breathe in my opinion, but I could easily slam back quite a few on a warm Valley day. Refreshing, but playing it safe as far as traditional Gose biers appear to go. (Labelled ’Hose the Gose’, 4.6% ABV, Feral Brewing Company, Baskerville)

First time to try this style. The saltiness in both the smell and taste bounces of the more straight forward wheat base quite nicely. Didn’t get any funk. Tastefully done.

Tap, served through an infuser filled with caperberries. Hazy pale yellow with a small but lacy white head. Aroma has damp hessian, caperberries. Very much like wheat sprouting on damp cloth in the shade. Taste has a little almost-but kind-of-vegetable sweetness from the caperberries before salt and lactic sourness. Reminds me of Manzanilla sherry more than anything else. An elegant aperitif with good but moderate sourness. A little dried orange peel and coriander in a dry, salty finish.