Sweet Tart - Passionfruit Gose
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.

473ml can - sort of a strange time of the year to be releasing something like this, innit?

This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some cannonball splash aftermath lace around the glass as it steadily recedes.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some muddled tropical fruitiness, a faint lacto funk, saline solution, and some ethereal earthy, musty, and dead leafy hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and crackery pale malt, a lesser spicy wheatiness, juicy passionfruit, fancy salt, faded yeasty notes, and more super understated earthy, herbal, and grassy green hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly restrained in its innocuous-seeming frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a small airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the frooty character predominating.

Overall - well, Matt and the gang brought the goods with this one. Definitely more sweet than tart, but, in the end, balanced. Full of flavour, and quite refreshing, but it is still weird drinking this right before I have to go out and lay down some sand on the sidewalk, before some kid takes a header.

 

Appearance - Pours a hazy straw gold with three fingers of foamy and bubbly white head.

Smell - wheaty and bready malts, sea salt, passion fruit, and spicy earthy yeast.

Taste - wheat and bready malts upfront then quickly goes into a strong presence from the both the sea salt and the passion fruit. The spicy earthy yeast finishes the brew off.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate to high carbonation. Finishes sticky with a pleasant tartness with the sea salt and passion fruit lingering.

Overall - An enjoyable gose from the folks at Phillips. They nailed the passion fruit and saltiness to a tee. A very easy drinker!