Tanker Truck Sour Series: Sauvignon Blanc Gose
Two Roads Brewing Company
- From:
- Two Roads Brewing Company
- Connecticut, United States
- Style:
- Gose
Ranked #67 - ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- 89
Ranked #17,050 - Avg:
- 3.97 | pDev: 5.54%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 13
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 10, 2022
- Added:
- Dec 30, 2017
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 10
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
This beer features Sauvignon Blanc grapes known to produce distinctive tropical fruit notes which include aromas and flavors reminiscent of passion fruit, gooseberries, lime, honeydew melon and a pleasing mineral dryness.
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Reviewed by SierraNevallagash from Maine
4.1/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.1/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Pint can - BBE 21Sep19 - poured into a wide-mouth chalice at 42F.
Pours an ultra-pale oaked white wine yellow with a faint green cast, and the most miniscule amount of haze - not enough to fully obscure fingerprint derail through the glass. Less than a finger of fizzy, loose, white head forms before quickly sizzling out to a boiling cap of film, fed by a constant pillar of lively effervescence.
Nose: An aroma of white grape juice takes the lead, with notes of tart green apple, Bartlett pear, lemon-lime, gooseberry, unripe raspberry, unripe passionfruit, dry, fruity white wine, and some minerality, as well as some lactobacillus sharpness.
Palate: The beer greets the palate with an immediate lactic acid sourness from the kettle souring. It isn't blindingly sour, although there is a touch of pucker, but zero acetic (vinegar) sharpness, zero brett, and zero funk. Along with that lacto sour comes a wonderful and very present dry minerality. While the nose reveals a bouquet of tart fruit, the palate is slightly less nuanced, with white wine being the main theme. It's halfway between pure ripe Sauvignon Blanc grapes, and Sauvignon Blanc wine. The fruity, jammy, sweet elements of the grapes themselves are there, though the actual sweetness is not present. Some must and pomace notes unfurl as well. With the grapes are some quieter nuance notes of green apple, pear, lime, unripe berries, as well as just a general tart, "green" unripe fruit character. The sourness masks any true nuance or complexity that might have been there to begin with. The finish drops the fruity components from the flavour, leaving a true-to-life dry white wine flavour, as well as much of the minerality from the start, and then the tartness falls back, and the malted grains finally show up as a whisper in the aftertaste, which is a nice touch, as there was no sign of malt to begin with. Essentially bone dry from start to finish.
Mouthfeel/Body: The beer is light-bodied and crisp. It isn't watery or thin, as the graoe component adds a touch of weight and feel without contributing any sweetness or heft. For reference, this has way more body than an American Adjunct Lager, but it still falls into the light-bodied category. Effervescence is lively and scrubbing - fine in nature, but more aggressive than champagne, which really drives the crisp drinkability of the beer.
Overall: Goses are sort of cursed on BA, and will likely never achieve world-class status. Why this is, I'm not entirely sure. They lack the complexity of their wild sour kin, and there are no "hyped" examples. They're relatively "easy" to brew, and they take very little time to complete. All things considered, they're sort of damned from the upper echelon of ratings. Nevertheless, for what it is - a fruited gose - it checks every single box that it should, and it delivers in spades. It isn't too sour, it's balanced, nothing is out of place, and the Sauv Blanc grapes are absolutely beautifully integrated, which is really the hardest part. Two Roads absolutely nailed this gose, and I'm hard-pressed to,believe there are too many other affordable, accessible, and well-crafted kettle soured ales that are this crisp, refreshing, and drinkable, while keeping the balance of interesting enough to sit down with and pick apart, and not so insanely complex that it should be sipped with gratitude. The ultimate summer day sour.
Jan 29, 2020Pours an ultra-pale oaked white wine yellow with a faint green cast, and the most miniscule amount of haze - not enough to fully obscure fingerprint derail through the glass. Less than a finger of fizzy, loose, white head forms before quickly sizzling out to a boiling cap of film, fed by a constant pillar of lively effervescence.
Nose: An aroma of white grape juice takes the lead, with notes of tart green apple, Bartlett pear, lemon-lime, gooseberry, unripe raspberry, unripe passionfruit, dry, fruity white wine, and some minerality, as well as some lactobacillus sharpness.
Palate: The beer greets the palate with an immediate lactic acid sourness from the kettle souring. It isn't blindingly sour, although there is a touch of pucker, but zero acetic (vinegar) sharpness, zero brett, and zero funk. Along with that lacto sour comes a wonderful and very present dry minerality. While the nose reveals a bouquet of tart fruit, the palate is slightly less nuanced, with white wine being the main theme. It's halfway between pure ripe Sauvignon Blanc grapes, and Sauvignon Blanc wine. The fruity, jammy, sweet elements of the grapes themselves are there, though the actual sweetness is not present. Some must and pomace notes unfurl as well. With the grapes are some quieter nuance notes of green apple, pear, lime, unripe berries, as well as just a general tart, "green" unripe fruit character. The sourness masks any true nuance or complexity that might have been there to begin with. The finish drops the fruity components from the flavour, leaving a true-to-life dry white wine flavour, as well as much of the minerality from the start, and then the tartness falls back, and the malted grains finally show up as a whisper in the aftertaste, which is a nice touch, as there was no sign of malt to begin with. Essentially bone dry from start to finish.
Mouthfeel/Body: The beer is light-bodied and crisp. It isn't watery or thin, as the graoe component adds a touch of weight and feel without contributing any sweetness or heft. For reference, this has way more body than an American Adjunct Lager, but it still falls into the light-bodied category. Effervescence is lively and scrubbing - fine in nature, but more aggressive than champagne, which really drives the crisp drinkability of the beer.
Overall: Goses are sort of cursed on BA, and will likely never achieve world-class status. Why this is, I'm not entirely sure. They lack the complexity of their wild sour kin, and there are no "hyped" examples. They're relatively "easy" to brew, and they take very little time to complete. All things considered, they're sort of damned from the upper echelon of ratings. Nevertheless, for what it is - a fruited gose - it checks every single box that it should, and it delivers in spades. It isn't too sour, it's balanced, nothing is out of place, and the Sauv Blanc grapes are absolutely beautifully integrated, which is really the hardest part. Two Roads absolutely nailed this gose, and I'm hard-pressed to,believe there are too many other affordable, accessible, and well-crafted kettle soured ales that are this crisp, refreshing, and drinkable, while keeping the balance of interesting enough to sit down with and pick apart, and not so insanely complex that it should be sipped with gratitude. The ultimate summer day sour.
Reviewed by tigg924 from Massachusetts
4.15/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4
4.15/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4
Pours clear, pale gold in color with 1/4 inch head. Taste is Sauvignon Blanc grapes with a decent amount of sour mix. Light bodied, medium-high carbonation, and sour. Delightful wine like gose. I prefer other Two Roads goses but this is tasty.
Jan 26, 2020
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.23/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.25
4.23/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.25
Earlier in the day, I revisited their Roadsmary's Baby, this time in a Bottle (GASP!), vice a CAN. I thoroughly enjoyed it & so I wanted to CANtinue with them for a while longer, this time to further The CANQuest (tm).
From the CAN: "Tanker Truck Sour Series"; "Souring In Progress"; "Soured in Our Tanker Truck"; "Two Roads is driving a tanker truck down a road less traveled with this Passion Fruit Gose (pronounced GO-zuh). We kettle soured this ale in our own tanker truck trailer a former milk tanker [like the one on the front label] - that's parked right on the grounds of our brewery!"; " This beer features Sauvignon Blanc grapes known to produce distinctive tropical fruit notes which include aromas and flavors reminiscent of passion fruit, gooseberries, lime, honeydew melon and a pleasing mineral dryness."; "Here's to taking the road less traveled, in life and in beer!"
If this were a mead, vice a beer, it would be referred to as a "Pyment". The inclusion of grapes also makes it a "Fruit & Field Beer" on this site, but since the brewery marks it as a Gose, that is what I am expecting. I beCAN by Crack!ing open the vent, but not before some in-CAN agitation occurred. I wanted anything & everything that may have settled onto the kick/punt to be back in suspension, where it belonged. My slow, gentle C-Line Glug became more aggro as it progressed, resulting in the formation of two-plus fingers of foamy, soapy, rocky, bone-white head with decent retention. Color was Straw-Yellow (SRM = > 2, < 4) with NE-quality clarity despite all of my efforts. Nose was very different for the style with a solid vinousness as well as an equally solid salinity! It was not simply grapes, either. I really swore that I smelled melons & limes! 8=O Mouthfeel was kind of thin & watery, about on par for the style. The taste was about as wide-ranging as I have encountered in a while, going from grape & melon to lime & tropical fruit to an unCANpromising saltiness. 8=O I have been saying for a while that although I am not generally a tart/sour beer guy, the salinity of Goses really makes them my bag. This was a really interesting take on the style. Finish was super-dry, amazingly so, given the inclusion of grapes. Two Roads CANtinues to impress me with this series. YMMV.
Nov 27, 2019From the CAN: "Tanker Truck Sour Series"; "Souring In Progress"; "Soured in Our Tanker Truck"; "Two Roads is driving a tanker truck down a road less traveled with this Passion Fruit Gose (pronounced GO-zuh). We kettle soured this ale in our own tanker truck trailer a former milk tanker [like the one on the front label] - that's parked right on the grounds of our brewery!"; " This beer features Sauvignon Blanc grapes known to produce distinctive tropical fruit notes which include aromas and flavors reminiscent of passion fruit, gooseberries, lime, honeydew melon and a pleasing mineral dryness."; "Here's to taking the road less traveled, in life and in beer!"
If this were a mead, vice a beer, it would be referred to as a "Pyment". The inclusion of grapes also makes it a "Fruit & Field Beer" on this site, but since the brewery marks it as a Gose, that is what I am expecting. I beCAN by Crack!ing open the vent, but not before some in-CAN agitation occurred. I wanted anything & everything that may have settled onto the kick/punt to be back in suspension, where it belonged. My slow, gentle C-Line Glug became more aggro as it progressed, resulting in the formation of two-plus fingers of foamy, soapy, rocky, bone-white head with decent retention. Color was Straw-Yellow (SRM = > 2, < 4) with NE-quality clarity despite all of my efforts. Nose was very different for the style with a solid vinousness as well as an equally solid salinity! It was not simply grapes, either. I really swore that I smelled melons & limes! 8=O Mouthfeel was kind of thin & watery, about on par for the style. The taste was about as wide-ranging as I have encountered in a while, going from grape & melon to lime & tropical fruit to an unCANpromising saltiness. 8=O I have been saying for a while that although I am not generally a tart/sour beer guy, the salinity of Goses really makes them my bag. This was a really interesting take on the style. Finish was super-dry, amazingly so, given the inclusion of grapes. Two Roads CANtinues to impress me with this series. YMMV.
Reviewed by DrDemento456 from Pennsylvania
4.1/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
I like all these variations of the gose style they produce with this one being very tasty with the addition of Sauvignon Blanc grapes. Has that distinct dry grape flavor one would get in a wine barrel aged beer mixed perfectly with the sour lime and salty flavor one would expect in the style. Worth trying!
Jul 25, 2019
Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.25/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Two Roads Brewing "Tanker Truck Series: Sauvignon Blanc Gose"
1 pint can, "BBE 21SEP19 17:00"
Notes via stream of consciousness: It seems to me I've tasted this beer before, let me see... -sip- -sip- yep, for sure. It's very light in color, kind of like Budweiser if I recall its light straw gold body correctly, and just slightly hazy. Even though it's a sour beer it brings up a pretty good head although it doesn't stick around for too long, and unfortunately doesn't leave any lacing behind. It smells acidic and mineralish as almost all gosebiers do, but it's also very clean - some can get a little stenchy, and you don't find the Sauvignon Blanc grapes until you taste it. With that said, the taste is basically acidic, fruity with pear and white grape, and mildly salty. There's very little bitterness to it, although none is needed to balance it because the acidity handles that, a just a touch of sweetish and basic malt comes through - I doubt there's anything besides American 2-row or Heidelberg malt in here, maybe just some wheat for head retention. In the mouth it's light bodied, and gently effervescent and zesty - any more carbonation would amplify the acidity and throw off the beautiful balance it has. Conclusion? It's a really nicely done gose that's clean, balanced across the board, fairly delicate despite its 4.85 ABV, and thus highly drinkable.
Review # 6,585
May 30, 20191 pint can, "BBE 21SEP19 17:00"
Notes via stream of consciousness: It seems to me I've tasted this beer before, let me see... -sip- -sip- yep, for sure. It's very light in color, kind of like Budweiser if I recall its light straw gold body correctly, and just slightly hazy. Even though it's a sour beer it brings up a pretty good head although it doesn't stick around for too long, and unfortunately doesn't leave any lacing behind. It smells acidic and mineralish as almost all gosebiers do, but it's also very clean - some can get a little stenchy, and you don't find the Sauvignon Blanc grapes until you taste it. With that said, the taste is basically acidic, fruity with pear and white grape, and mildly salty. There's very little bitterness to it, although none is needed to balance it because the acidity handles that, a just a touch of sweetish and basic malt comes through - I doubt there's anything besides American 2-row or Heidelberg malt in here, maybe just some wheat for head retention. In the mouth it's light bodied, and gently effervescent and zesty - any more carbonation would amplify the acidity and throw off the beautiful balance it has. Conclusion? It's a really nicely done gose that's clean, balanced across the board, fairly delicate despite its 4.85 ABV, and thus highly drinkable.
Review # 6,585
Reviewed by Wasatch from Colorado
3.91/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.91/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
16 oz. Can
BBE: 19OCT18
Poured into a Trillium glass a nice clean/clear golden dark yellow color, pretty nice carbonation, with a quick/fizzy one-finger white head, which leaves some sticky lacing behind. The nose is malty, yeasty, with a nice touch of Sauvignon Blanc grapes, sour/tart. The taste is malty, yeasty, with some Sauvignon Blanc grapes, nice little sour/tartness. Medium body, ABV is hidden pretty nicely. Overall, a tasty brew, nice to see it around here.
Nov 26, 2018BBE: 19OCT18
Poured into a Trillium glass a nice clean/clear golden dark yellow color, pretty nice carbonation, with a quick/fizzy one-finger white head, which leaves some sticky lacing behind. The nose is malty, yeasty, with a nice touch of Sauvignon Blanc grapes, sour/tart. The taste is malty, yeasty, with some Sauvignon Blanc grapes, nice little sour/tartness. Medium body, ABV is hidden pretty nicely. Overall, a tasty brew, nice to see it around here.
Reviewed by HandMeAnother from New York
4.75/5 rDev +19.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
4.75/5 rDev +19.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
Look: pale yellow w/ a white fluffy cloud head
Smell: Sauvignon Blanc grapes
Taste: Upfront is a fizzy sour puckering and the strong taste of Sauvignon Blanc grapes followed by the hint of lime and some saltiness.
Feel: light and airy
Overall: Lovely winey gose. Well crafted very drinkable for any wine or gose lover!! & I love adding frozen berries for an added touch sweetness ;)
Sep 27, 2018Smell: Sauvignon Blanc grapes
Taste: Upfront is a fizzy sour puckering and the strong taste of Sauvignon Blanc grapes followed by the hint of lime and some saltiness.
Feel: light and airy
Overall: Lovely winey gose. Well crafted very drinkable for any wine or gose lover!! & I love adding frozen berries for an added touch sweetness ;)
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