World class gose combines briny sea-salted melon rind dryness with lightly acidic lemon lime pucker and brief cucumber-watered watermelon, cantaloupe, passionfruit, guava, kiwi and pomegranate pleasantries. Spritzy lemon-limed crisping retains sour fruit-brined acridity. A bit unspecific with its ‘melon’ influence, but lingeringly memorable.
Foremost gose utilizes prickly pear cactus juice to heighten lightly salted yellow grapefruit souring and fresh-squeezed lemon bruise. At midst, crisply clean cucumber watering picks up limey plantain, white peach and gooseberry licks. Saltine cracker-like white wheat bottom perfectly suits dry light-bodied template.
Pleasant, but inessential, Belgian-styled witbier stays nebulous. Coriander-spiced navel orange peel sweetness and sugary pale malting contrast mild lemony peach tartness and white-peppered restraint above grassy hop astringency. By desolate citric-spiced finish, stylish template unravels.
On tap at Ambulance, adventurously hybridized gose brings botanical juniper-spiced lavender, angelica-rooted orange flowering and light pimiento peppering to stylish coriander salting. Subsidiary orange-candied tartness, lemon-limed gooseberry pucker and lilting rosé wining stay below the busy surface near the sour wheat base.
On tap at Ambulance, “modest” dry-hopped gose plies ultra-sour lemony peach-orange-gooseberry tartness and acidic lip-smacking white grape vinegaring to mineral-grained brininess. A true ‘marriage of sour and hoppy’ thru organic ingredients.
On tap at Ambulance, zesty lime-juiced pucker and lemony tartness deepen stylish salted coriander souring of light-bodied gose. A hint of fennel sweetness contrasts sharp citric-soured finish.
Fine black-peppered version of brettanomyces-soured gose retains sea-salted coriander expectancy and tart lemon pucker while mild jalapeno burn brings some heat. Light rum barrel aging adds residual sugaring to contrast bacterial yeast influx.
On tap at One Mile House, salty lemon-limed souring and musty barnyard acridity overcrowd tropical passionfruit, mango, guava and kiwi illusions while diminished coriander spicing loses resilience above wilted white wheat spine of tepid gose.
Pleasingly dry chartreuse-clouded moderation (in a can) offers mild lime-soured lemon tartness and lively carbolic spritz to stylish sea-salted coriander spicing. Briny citric acidity gains mellow yellow peach twinge and clean-watered minerality above light grassy barnyard pungency.
Serene dry-bodied gose deepens acidic sour-fruited expectancy with sea-watered salting and bittersweet wildflower honey. Leathery straw, hay and barnyard astringency crowds subsidiary lemon-candied sourness and tertiary green apple, raspberry and strawberry tartness. But Imperial designation seems to be a misnomer.
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead, dry kettle-soured gose brings lactobacillus acidity to sea-salted coriander expectancy and mild lemon-limed blood orange tartness. Sharply carbolic citric spritz reinforces casual summertime session ale.
On tap at Growler & Gill, briny lemon-limed sourness pleats hard-candied cherry pucker. Tart raspberry rasp, vinous green grape esters, mild green apple snip and Jolly Rancher watermelon nuance provide further souring. Residual sugar sweetness hidden below the oaken cherry surface. ‘Sublime,’ indeed.