![]() It was an archaic German wheat beer, distinguished primarily from Berliner weisse by the additions of coriander and a minimal amount of salinity. Five years ago, this style was all but forgotten to most people who weren’t beer historians. It’s rather remarkable to step back and consider how gose came into vogue. You could argue that on some level, they’ve stepped into the same market space that Berliner weisse was thriving in a couple of years ago, adding a pinch of salt but otherwise playing in much the same way. This is no longer a style being consumed primarily by the intense craft beer geeks-EVERYONE is drinking gose in 2017, and nearly every brewery with any kind of sour program is making them. The conclusion to draw is obvious: Gose, like so many other sour beer styles, has clearly arrived in the mainstream. With a bigger list of press contacts, but more importantly a veritable explosion in the popularity of gose in the past two years, the number of entries increased more than fivefold-from 12 to 64. ![]() It was won by South Carolina’s Westbrook Brewing, which has been producing one of the hallmarks of the style for years now, and afterward we set the idea of a gose tasting aside for quite a while, until the time seemed right to return to it. We were trying to shine a light on gose as a style that had recently come into its own, but all in all, we only gathered 12 beers. It was modest-in those days, our press list was not nearly so robust as it has become today. Click here to view all entries in the series.īack in 2015, the Paste faithful had themselves a little blind-tasting of goses. This list is part of a Paste series of bottom shelf liquor and craft beer style tastings.
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