Goosegog Sour
Holy Goat in Dundee, Dundee, Scotland 🏴
Collab with: Futtle / Scratch Brewing CompanySour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular
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Score
7.41
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We teamed up with our friends at Futtle (based in East Neuk, Fife) and Scratch Brewing (based in Illinois, US) for this foraged Gose. We blended a golden sour base beer from our blending stock and aged this on whole locally grown red gooseberries (goosegogs). We used a carbonic maceration process to help break down the fruit and gain additional complexity from these berries.
To this blend we added foraged seaweed from the shores of East Neuk and spicebush berries from the woods around Scratch brewing. The resultant beer is sweet, salty, with heaps of gooseberry, spice and a whiff of sea-breeze.
To this blend we added foraged seaweed from the shores of East Neuk and spicebush berries from the woods around Scratch brewing. The resultant beer is sweet, salty, with heaps of gooseberry, spice and a whiff of sea-breeze.
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8.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to allmyvinyl.
Appearance - hazy orange and a light thin head, a look of creamola foam.
Nose - hay and then intense gooseberry nose, maybe even quince. Woody and funky.
Taste - salt, apple, wood and of course, juicy gooseberry.
Palate - medium bodied, funky, fruity and sour.
Overall - lovely stuff!
Appearance - hazy orange and a light thin head, a look of creamola foam.
Nose - hay and then intense gooseberry nose, maybe even quince. Woody and funky.
Taste - salt, apple, wood and of course, juicy gooseberry.
Palate - medium bodied, funky, fruity and sour.
Overall - lovely stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2026
at 12:54
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Great Grog. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of light salt, light sour, light fruit. Taste is all sharp gooseberry up front, light salt. Dry finish.
Tried
on 13 Apr 2026
at 12:51
8/10
15cl. Draft. Gist
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Jan 2026
at 19:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle via the online shop. Hazed deep orange. Slim dense semi lacing white foam. Nose has wheat. Some woody notes akin to grape stalk. Something hard to get but it’s like a struck match but not. Maybe it’s the spicebush berries. No idea what they are tbh. Some salinity underneath. Taste is tart and dry. Fairly acidic overall although it’s not tooth stripping. Tart dry fruity finish. Well, it’s definitely different. Not sure I’d give it a go again but then again it’s not made to be a session bev.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2025
at 18:50
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at The Green Goddess, Blackheath Royal Standard. Gooseberry jam, lemongrass & white grape aromas. Tart eye wincing taste of the above. Dry, fruity & sour. Quite flavoursome but plays havoc on me acid reflux!
Tried
from Draft
at
Green Goddess
on 24 Aug 2025
at 10:56
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Aug 2025
at 18:16