hagbardceline
Well-Known Member
Tonight I finished off my Gose.
It finished at 1.020 after six weeks (started at 1.053). It has a nice sourness to it with lots of Malt character. Over time I would assume the brett will continue to develop but there is a homebrew comp coming up (SPHBC). If I submitted it would be in the next two weeks.
I have much respect for SPHBC as it seems to me they have some of the best, most knowledge people around. What should I enter this as? It is a nice dark English Bitter color yet cloudy.
this is the grain bill:
4.5 lbs German Wheat Malt
4.5 lbs German Pils
.5 lbs Flaked Oats
.5 lbs Marris Otter
Northern brewer .75 oz @ 60
Perle .5 @ 15 minutes
Fermented with 3191 Berliner Weiss...
I also added Salt and Coriander.
I know there is talk (or fact?) of a Gose style...I have only tasted 1 Gose but it tasted nothing like this.
Sour ale? German Wheat? Specialty beer?
Honestly even tho it is historically incorrect I would enter it was a farmhouse ale...but then again there isn't even a Saison cat...so maybe the french and belgain cat? Although I would think the heavy malt taste woudln't do well in that cat...even tho i think it fits in very nicely with some beir de garde and farmhouse ales i have tasted.
It finished at 1.020 after six weeks (started at 1.053). It has a nice sourness to it with lots of Malt character. Over time I would assume the brett will continue to develop but there is a homebrew comp coming up (SPHBC). If I submitted it would be in the next two weeks.
I have much respect for SPHBC as it seems to me they have some of the best, most knowledge people around. What should I enter this as? It is a nice dark English Bitter color yet cloudy.
this is the grain bill:
4.5 lbs German Wheat Malt
4.5 lbs German Pils
.5 lbs Flaked Oats
.5 lbs Marris Otter
Northern brewer .75 oz @ 60
Perle .5 @ 15 minutes
Fermented with 3191 Berliner Weiss...
I also added Salt and Coriander.
I know there is talk (or fact?) of a Gose style...I have only tasted 1 Gose but it tasted nothing like this.
Sour ale? German Wheat? Specialty beer?
Honestly even tho it is historically incorrect I would enter it was a farmhouse ale...but then again there isn't even a Saison cat...so maybe the french and belgain cat? Although I would think the heavy malt taste woudln't do well in that cat...even tho i think it fits in very nicely with some beir de garde and farmhouse ales i have tasted.