Brewery: Garage Project Country: New Zealand ABV: 2.9% Style: Gose – Fruit Other Notes: Salted White Peach Sour
Brewer Description: (from can) Kettle soured wheat, lightly salted and infused with white peaches – a delicate three way salty, sweet and sour balancing act. A little bit of white mischief in a beer where anything gose. Brewed for Burger Wellington 2015.
My rating: 3 My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.96 My ratebeer.com rating: 3.8
Intro: A 330ml can with a best before date of 5th July 2018. Poured into a Holy Mountain tulip glass. Appearance: A mostly clear golden colour with a just over one finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly and left pretty much no lacing. Aroma: Strong aroma of peaches and sour peach gummy candy with a hint of lemon. Taste: Tart sour peach, a hint of salt and some wheat of the finish. Mouthfeel: Light bodied with moderate to high carbonation. Overall: Light, refreshing and thirst quenching with its low ABV.
Brewery: Founders Brewing Company Country: USA ABV: 4.6% Style: Gose – Fruit Other Notes: 10 IBUs
Brewer Description: (from can) Gose style ale. Brewed with watermelon and sea salt.
My rating: 3 My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.52 My ratebeer.com rating: 3.4
Intro: A 12 fl. oz. can, canned on 8th August 2017. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass. Appearance: A hazy golden colour with a two finger white head that had good retention and left nice lacing. Aroma: Tart, candied watermelon with hints of wheat and salt. Taste: Lightly tart, sweet watermelon hard candy, bubblegum and salt with an apple cidery finish. Mouthfeel: Light bodied with moderate to high carbonation. Overall: Although the salt tries to balance it out, this was still too sweet for my liking. Also the watermelon flavours were quite artificial, but I’d imagine that a beer with actual watermelon flavours wouldn’t taste like much. To be transparent, this is coming from someone who does not like watermelon.
Brewery: 18th Street Brewery Country: USA ABV: 4.5% Style: American Pale Ale
Brewer Description: Not much information I could find on this beer, but I assume Cashmere hops were used.
My rating: 3 My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.84 My ratebeer.com rating: 3.7
Intro: A one pint can, canned on 26th December 2017. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass. Appearance: A very lightly hazy golden orange colour with a two finger white head that had decent retention and left some nice lacing. Aroma: Sweet pineapple coupled with citrusy grapefruit rind, pine and a light floral character. Taste: Light bitterness, citrus rind and peel, melon, mandarin, lemon/lime and pine. There’s some light sweetness and floral on the finish. Mouthfeel: Light bodied with moderate to high carbonation. Overall: Nice and easy to drink.
Brewery: Mikkeller San Diego Country: USA ABV: 4% Style: German Berliner Weisse Other Notes: Berliner Series.
Brewer Description: (from can) Berliner style Weisse beer brewed with cranberry, rhubarb and orange.
My rating: 3 My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.71 My ratebeer.com rating: 3.6
Intro: A one pint can with a Julian canned on date of 32517 (I think, as it was a bit blurred), meaning that it was canned on 21st November 2017. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass. Appearance: A hazy pinkish orange colour with a big two finger white head that dissipated quite quickly while leaving only sparse lacing. Aroma: Wheaty, orange, mixed berries with a hint of lemon. Taste: Tart orange and lemon, wheat, with hints of mixed berries and rhubarb. Mouthfeel: Light bodied with moderate to high carbonation. Overall: This had nice tartness but just a bit too grainy for me.
Brewery: Mikkeller San Diego Country: USA ABV: 7% Style: Rye Beer Other Notes: Hop Series. Keep It Easy
Brewer Description: (from can) Wheat India Pale Ale Brewed with Rye.
My rating: 3 My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.92 My ratebeer.com rating: 3.7
Intro: A one pint can with a Julian canned on date of 17355, meaning that it was canned on 21st December 2017. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass. Appearance: A clear copper amber colour with an almost three finger off white head that had good retention while leaving some lacing. Aroma: Sweet, pineapple, caramel malt, rye, pine, citrusy orange and grass. Taste: Sweet, marmalade, mandarin, orange and pineapple with caramel malt, rye and pine lightly bitter finish. Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Overall: Quite a nice Wheat Rye IPA??? (I guess) Although perhaps it felt slightly too sweet at times.
