From now; not a Gose Day beer but bought as a 4 pack at Peabody's in Boone by our older son-in-law and I was allowed to "borrow" a pint can:
South Fork Grapefruit Gose-Booneshine Brewing Company
No date on can.
RJ199's review is pretty complete so the only things I'll add will be an IBUs estimate at 5 with the ABV at 4.5%. I've also bolded the 2 above ingredients that were not listed on the brewery's tap list that night. I'm going to reserve my fuse Cat 3 for Founder's Mas Agave (up next) and Westbrook's Key Lime Gose but I'll put this easily in the upper tier of Cat 2 beers/goses. A very well conceived and executed beer.
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BBA Sexual Chocolate 2019 will be released September 20-21.
"Amazing what a minute can do."
Where did duketaylor go? He hasn't posted here in a while...
Saison Vieille - Strong Sour Ale aged in Sherry Barrels - Brasserie Trois Dames - 8% ABV
Pour - reddish brown with 1 inch lacey head that stays a while. Smells like sherry oak and vinegar.
The taste is complex. I can't really tell you what all it tastes like. When they say strong sour ale, they aren't kidding. It's pretty strong apple cider vinegar tart dominating for me. I had trouble appreciating much else. It's oaky. I thought it tasted more sour than saison. But I guess I could pick up some dry wine barrels. Maybe I should have let it warm more. Stella was excited about this, and I was pretty excited about the Sherry barrels. But honestly I thought that cognac one was much much better.
This is a good beer of course. Fuse Category 2. I have one more bottle if somebody wants to try it for a trade or whatever. But you'd need to really like sours I'd say.
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From 6/27/19:
From now:
Mas Agave-Mahou San Miguel, err, Founders Brewing Company
Worth repeating. Everything above still holds true without any deterioration in quality over the ensuing 2.5 months since first tasted/reviewed. A marvelous beer. Fuse Cat 3.
If you're wandering through your local supermarket, craft beer store or Total Wine and see a bottle/4 pack of this, don't hesitate for a moment before putting it in your cart, even with its April, 2019 dating, IIRC.
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Going through some archived posts (yes, that is indeed crazietalk), I counted 11 Octoberfest brews that I've had in about 9 years.
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La Folie - New Belgium Brewing - Sour - 7% ABV - 18 IBU -
Ruby dark brown mahogany with quickly fading thin head.
Tart aroma.
What a great sour beer. It's a nicely complex taste with tart cherry, oak, plum skin notes Untapped tells me - sure, changing to a fun faint chocolate and maybe hint of raspberry. It finishes sour. Good balance.
Fuse Category 2 - a great beer, and I liked this better than the sherry barrel sour I reviewed above. Is this the same New Belgium that makes Fat Tire. I don't believe that. This was good.