26th May 2019
Hazy yellowish gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Decent light pale malts, light creamy sweetness. Piney and slightly savoury skunk. Mildly ripe citrus and citrus peel. Light finish. Not bad, but again, not really singing!

Oddly sweet, but in a weird way.

Light sour, milky nose and front.

375ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, yellow-ish, pale golden colour with small, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Funky, fruity and cheesy aroma, notes of fermenting peach, blue cheese, hints of white grapes. Taste is tart, fruity, slighty tangy, minimally diluted hints of peach, yellow stone fruit in general, a spicy touch of cheese; slightly watery texture.

13 April 2019. At First Timternational Beer Tasting, Ghent. Cheers to Ghent beer crew! Pours hazy red with a lasting, thin, unstable, foamy, pink head. Aroma of ‘Petit Gervais’ (children’s yoghurt, thanks nutjes for pointing that out), blackcurrant & redcurrant, vanilla pudding, red candy, wheat, cheese, cheesecake almost, strawberry jam, vague ice cream, baby’s bath foam. Taste is medium fruity sweet & sour, lots of raspberry, strawberry, blackcurrant, a bit candy-like, mainly mixed into jam, giving it a yoghurty, milky & lactic character in which the vanilla appears a bit, somewhat wheaty too with only very faint bitter tones of the fruits’ seeds. Dryish, tart, wheaty finish, lingering red candy, jam, yoghurt, vague warming alcohol hinting at fruit jenever. Medium body, slick-fluffy texture, lively carbonation. Unlike anything I’ve ever had, feels a bit like a ‘guilty pleasure’ but it’s quite good.

13 April 2019. At First Timternational Beer Tasting, Ghent. Cheers to Ghent beer crew! Pours cloudy yellow with a slowly thinning, unstable, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of marijuana, sweaty onion, mellow yellow grapefruit, mango, pineapple, mandarin, dough, hint of chalk, tonic. Taste is medium fruity sweet, quite tropical, hints of pineapple & mandarin, supported by soft doughy maltiness, restrained sourish lemon & lime in the back; hoppy bitter notes of ripe grapefruit, mandarin peel, faint pine & dank tones of hasish & onion. Dryish, floral hoppy finish, more onion, yellow fruit & dough. Medium body, slick/fluffy texture, fizzy carbonation. Dank for sure, but still very much aromatic.

Gose of sorts, brewed with – wait for it – blackcurrant, mango, marshmallow, vanilla and milk sugar, and this is only one of several comparable versions… This is in any case a combination I haven’t encountered before and which reminds me more of a postmodern kind of hazy or even milkshake IPA than any form of Gose, but anything goes these days, of course. Mousy, pale pinkish-tinged off-white, open, irregular head, cloudy ruby red robe with lilac hue. Sweet aroma, with a very strong cassis (blackcurrant syrup) impression, children’s forest fruit yoghurt, ‘Fristi’ (a Dutch milk-based pink soft drink with fruit), stewed and sugared rhubarb, blueberry crumble, fig and port sorbet, plum compote, mango chutney, cheese cake, touch of lavender-scented soap. Soft and simple but clear tartness in the mouth, notably lactic-yoghurty but with pronounced fruitiness as well, again reminiscent of blackcurrant and less so of mango, touch of ripe blue plum and black cherry, medium carbonation, soft and soapy mouthfeel with lactose creaminess to it but the sourness keeps drying the whole and providing balance against the sweetness; sesame seed-like spicy accent in the finish, sorbet- and yoghurt-like impressions remaining evident with a red fruit sweetness to it. Sour and sweet with more emphasis on the sweetness than on the sourness – too sweet, perhaps and, in spite of having had other fruited Goses, this one is the hardest one to categorize as such that I had to date, we are very far removed from Ritterguts and other traditionally-oriented German Goses here. In all, still a fun beer though, a bit childish perhaps, but very easygoing in spite of the complicated premise and cleverly made, admittedly.