6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

330 ml. bottle @ Beerlovers Bar. Clear amber orange, creamy whtie head. Nose is weird plastic, stale, cooked apple, pear, candy, soap & low medicinal. Taste is this weird grain, sweet cooked apple, pear, stale candy, mothballs, honey, cereal, weird stale grainy sweet plastic, very odd Gose with a strange profile that was not my thing, bit of a chore to drink & bit too expensive for an okay small Belgian brewery.

7

Niet te zuur, zout niet te aanwezig, leuke volmondigheid en kruidigheid van de koriander

7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Thnx Jo ! Pours bit darker blonde, mild unclearness. Small white, creamy head. Smell is very fruity. orange, passionfruit style fruity. Taste is full, intense. Saltyness is there, but the sourness is very mild. Ends quite crisp, malty, very interesting. full-flavored, awesome beer. I wouldn't link it to a known Gose, because it's simply not really sour. But I do really like this one ! a beer that keeps surprising troughout the experience of drinkin'.

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

New dry-hopped - and therefore by traditional definition 'new craft beer style' - Gose, in which the young brewing scenes of Ghent and Antwerp meet (finally, I dare to add), as this is a collaboration between L'Arogante and Tall Poppy. Thanks to the Arogante crew for the bottle, now one and a half month old. Thick, irregularly lacing, snow white, slowly opening but altogether very stable head on a lightly hazy, 'metallic orange' blonde, warm beer with olive greenish hue, misty with sediment, showing fine strings of sparkling. Aroma of candied orange, fresh ripe mandarin, ripe yellow plum, melon, sweating cheese, bread crust, fresh sweet onions, red apple, some soapy coriander and a subtle note of green seaweed. Sweet onset (weirdly for the style) with only a light sourish lemon peel edge, hints of ripe pear, melon and apricot, medium carbonation, smooth and soapy mouthfeel; saltiness is very much at the background in the onset, but becomes a bit more prominent and briney towards the finish, yet remaining subordinate to the sweetness. Lightly caramelly and wheaty-soapy body leading to a mild hop bitterish finish with a note of moldy grapefruit peel and some lively spiciness; it mingles with the salty accent in a rather unusual, but far from unpleasant way, while the orange-like sweetness and wheat and (much more subtly) coriander seed soapiness remain the main flavour components. Lacks sourness for a Gose, but the saltiness is there, though in a different, softer and 'later' way than I am used to from the style; I'd hesitate to call this a Gose at all, the presence of salt and coriander as such are only half of the make-up of a typical Gose, but apart from that, this is a very elegant, interesting, different and flavourful beer showing great technical skill. Loved it, Gose or not!