Cherry, Lime And Blue Raspberry King Gose
Hoppin' Frog Brewery

Got in a BIF from Ozzylizard. 16 ounce can into tulip glass, best before 6/20/2025. Pours fairly hazy golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head. Great retention and lacing for the style. Nose is an authentic bomb popsicle of cherry, blue raspberry, and lime syrup, a bit medicinal, mild funk. Taste of tart lime, blue raspberry, cherry, lemon, wheat, grain, herbal, pepper, and light lacto funk. Light herbal bitterness, lacto tartness, and fruit tang on the finish. Medium-high carb, and medium body, balanced grain malt, acid, and sticky hops in mouthfeel. Slight pucker/tang lingering drying after the finish. Very drinkable. Bit of lingering warmth of 6%. There was only a very mild bit of salinity/salt noticeable in this for a gose.

 

2023-05-03
16oz can served in a WABL sample glass. Can is dated BEST BY JUNE 20 2025. Got it from @ozzylizard in NBS BIF #17.

Pours an interesting rose color, slightly leaning toward amber, just a touch of haze. Not much head. Smell is literally a bomb pop -- those red, white, and blue popsicles that obviously inspired this beer, based on the label art. I consider this aroma a pretty amazing achievement, although it doesn't really smell like beer.

Taste deviates somewhat. The bomb pop flavor is absolutely there, but now there are some beery things going on, too. Some kind of earthy grains, a moderate-to-light bitterness.

Mouthfeel is light and clean. Overall, this beer is pretty good, and really amusing.

This is still pretty good but compared to other bomb pop sours this isn't great, the gose angle is new but the salt muddles the acidity. Idk. Not in line with other reviewers this is 110% a one and done for me.

Cherry, Lime & Blue Raspberry from Hoppin’ Frog. Purchased at Franklin Beer, Franklin, PA, 21/09/22. $ 6.00 (Including tax)/16 oz can ($ 0.375/oz). In reefer at store, stored at 40 degrees at home. Reviewed 16/10/22. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Stamped on bottom of can “BEST BY JUNE 20 2025”. Served at 47.2 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King Snifter. Final temperature 57.3 degrees.
Appearance – 3.
First pour – Peach, clear. Final pour peach and muddy.
Body – Peach, opaque. Under direct light, translucent. When rear-lite, peach, and translucent.
Head – Average (Maximum 3.5 cm, aggressive center pour), white with a touch of pink, high density, diminishing to a one to three mm crown and no cap.
Lacing – Poor. A few pieces of froth remain hanging on the glass as the level drops below half full.
Aroma – 4.25 - Initially an enormous burst of cherry followed by raspberry. No hops, no malt, no yeast. By the end, just a generic fruitiness.
Flavor – 4.25 – Raspberry predominates with a lime bite with cherry hanging on. No malt, no yeast, no hops. No ethanol (6 % ABV as marked on label) aroma or taste. No gastric warming occurs. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 3.5 – Medium, watery, lively carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3.75 No noticeable saltiness but very fruity. I question the authenticity of “blue raspberry”, particularly as a “natural” flavor. Otherwise, an enjoyable break from my usual diet of stouts.

 

 

Glowing candy apple red with a thin white blanket bubbling away to sparse spots.

A fruit punch introduction immediately turns to a total takeover of tart lime Pixy Stix that makes it much more sour than their usual shandies or goses, further emulating this candy dust by even having a sort of a sandy carbonation. But then, my god, it exhales soggy Fruity Pebbles.

The slick light body has a fine, tingly carbonation and finishes paper dry.