Lime Margarita Gose
Central City Brewers + Distillers

 

650ml bottle - made with salt, lime juice, and a 'splash of Tequila'. And at 4.5% ABV, I won't be wastin' away again, in, uh, what's that place called again?

This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, chunky, and somewhat shiny bone-white head, which leaves a bit of crooked tree branch lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.

It smells of acrid lemon/lime rind, white saltine crackers, gritty and grainy cereal malt, some earthy vegetal character that may or may not be Tequila, and faint leafy, herbal, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, bready and grainy pale malt, lime cordial, a further muddled and candied tropical fruitiness, seawater, and more well-understated earthy, herbal, and grassy hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite active in its aggressive frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, once you get acclimatized to the tart 'n sugary lime essences endemic here. It finishes off-dry, saltwater taffy soaked in lime juice the basic lingering impression.

Overall - this comes across as a lot more heavy and full-flavoured than I was anticipating (they seem to have found that lost shaker of salt) so, good! I can't deny that it bears a strong resemblance to a salt-rimmed lime margarita, just sans the alcohol kick - oh well, can't have everything, I suppose.