Gose & The Pussycats
HopDog BeerWorks
- From:
- HopDog BeerWorks
- Australia
- Style:
- Gose
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.63 | pDev: 6.89%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 05, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 14, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by doktorhops from Australia
3.95/5 rDev +8.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.95/5 rDev +8.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Another crazy (and no doubt good!) HopDog brew to bruview and this time the pun name is a bit of a miss for me, perhaps head brewer Tim Thomas is losing his “Dad joke” touch? Gose (pronounced “Go-Zer”) doesn’t rhyme with ‘Josie’, of Pussycat cartoon fame, as such the pun crumbles like a soft sponge cake in a wet paper bag. Anyway who cares if the beer is good? Amiright? The Pun Police - that’s who... and you don’t want to get on their bad side (death by laughter is inevitably next).
Poured from a 330ml bottle into a Duvel tulip.
A: Cloudy light straw coloured body with a thin white lace ring - cloudy beers: you either love ‘em or hate ‘em - there’s no middle ground (I personally love ‘em and my scores reflect my cloudy cavalier attitude). 8/10.
S: Wow, bit of a face-punch to the olfactory senses with a bold sea water/coriander hit upfront, really expecting some salty characters in the flavour now, let’s hope HD [because we really need to abbreviate a 6 letter name now don’t we?] didn’t throw the Gose out with the sea water and underbalance the sour notes. Though I suspect with the strength of the added Lactobacillus this Gose won’t be a damp squid*. 8/10.
T: Again I’ve only tried a couple Goses now and they all end up tasting like that refreshing antacid beverage known as Eno [not to be confused with that refreshing ambient artist known as Eno]. Overall flavours of lemon, salt, hint of sourness and a light pepper spice note. Aftertaste is moreish (not unlike a nice glass of Eno) and slightly dry. 8/10.
M: Mid to light, borderline medium bodied with a thin but gassy carbonation - really feels like a bit of a health potion here. 7/10.
D: So overall I’m slightly more impressed with this than Nomad’s attempt (and the only basis of comparison I have thus far in the style) - to me this tasted a tiny bit more like I imagine a real German Gose would taste like, and with HD’s pedigree in brewing funky ales I think a bit more “funk”, if that even is a definable term when it comes to brewing, has been put into this brew. All in all I could go another Gose, and that’s high praise coming from me for a 4.5% ABV beer. 8/10.
Food match: Again seafood, especially calamari or crab, feels right with this style.
*IT Crowd reference time boys and girls.
Nov 27, 2015Poured from a 330ml bottle into a Duvel tulip.
A: Cloudy light straw coloured body with a thin white lace ring - cloudy beers: you either love ‘em or hate ‘em - there’s no middle ground (I personally love ‘em and my scores reflect my cloudy cavalier attitude). 8/10.
S: Wow, bit of a face-punch to the olfactory senses with a bold sea water/coriander hit upfront, really expecting some salty characters in the flavour now, let’s hope HD [because we really need to abbreviate a 6 letter name now don’t we?] didn’t throw the Gose out with the sea water and underbalance the sour notes. Though I suspect with the strength of the added Lactobacillus this Gose won’t be a damp squid*. 8/10.
T: Again I’ve only tried a couple Goses now and they all end up tasting like that refreshing antacid beverage known as Eno [not to be confused with that refreshing ambient artist known as Eno]. Overall flavours of lemon, salt, hint of sourness and a light pepper spice note. Aftertaste is moreish (not unlike a nice glass of Eno) and slightly dry. 8/10.
M: Mid to light, borderline medium bodied with a thin but gassy carbonation - really feels like a bit of a health potion here. 7/10.
D: So overall I’m slightly more impressed with this than Nomad’s attempt (and the only basis of comparison I have thus far in the style) - to me this tasted a tiny bit more like I imagine a real German Gose would taste like, and with HD’s pedigree in brewing funky ales I think a bit more “funk”, if that even is a definable term when it comes to brewing, has been put into this brew. All in all I could go another Gose, and that’s high praise coming from me for a 4.5% ABV beer. 8/10.
Food match: Again seafood, especially calamari or crab, feels right with this style.
*IT Crowd reference time boys and girls.
Reviewed by chogm54 from Australia
3.35/5 rDev -7.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.35/5 rDev -7.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Poured from 330ml bottle into tulip
L - orange, partly cloudy, thin white lacing
S - apples, apricots, pepper, hint of skunkiness
T - Salty upfront, with wheat and apricots, moderate frizzy sourness halfway through and to the very salty finish.
F - Grainy texture, medium bodied, well carbonated
O - reasonable gose, the saltiness is a tad different. Not sure what to make of that, but it does leave you thirst for another drink!
Nov 14, 2015L - orange, partly cloudy, thin white lacing
S - apples, apricots, pepper, hint of skunkiness
T - Salty upfront, with wheat and apricots, moderate frizzy sourness halfway through and to the very salty finish.
F - Grainy texture, medium bodied, well carbonated
O - reasonable gose, the saltiness is a tad different. Not sure what to make of that, but it does leave you thirst for another drink!
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