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When The Light Gose Out
Siren Craft Brew
- From:
- Siren Craft Brew
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Gose
- ABV:
- 4.4%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 9.71%
- Reviews:
- 19
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 15, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 25, 2014
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 10
Collaboration with Stillwater Artisanal
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Ratings by kniles38:
Rated by kniles38 from New York
3.73/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Apr 06, 2015
3.73/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Apr 06, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by chinchill from South Carolina
3.45/5 rDev -9.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.45/5 rDev -9.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Looks like a black IPA with a large tan head. Yeasty sour smell. Interesting lightly tart, flavor. Near medium body with high, fizzy carbonation.
Mild flavor strength for style.
Dec 06, 2015Mild flavor strength for style.
Reviewed by avalon07 from South Carolina
4.04/5 rDev +6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.04/5 rDev +6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
L: Poured from a bottle to a cylinder glass. Had a black color and a thick consistency. There was a big, creamy, long-lasting head. Not much lacing, though.
S: A nice aroma of malt, wheat, floral notes, and a salty quality.
T: Tasted of wheat, the typical gose saltiness, dark fruit, chocolate, and the aforementioned floral notes. Certainly not your average gose flavor, with the dark fruit and chocolate adding an interesting twist to the proceedings.
F: A well-carbonated beer with a dry finish. Medium-bodied.
O: This beer probably won't appeal to gose purists, but it is an interesting, well made experiment.
Nov 27, 2015S: A nice aroma of malt, wheat, floral notes, and a salty quality.
T: Tasted of wheat, the typical gose saltiness, dark fruit, chocolate, and the aforementioned floral notes. Certainly not your average gose flavor, with the dark fruit and chocolate adding an interesting twist to the proceedings.
F: A well-carbonated beer with a dry finish. Medium-bodied.
O: This beer probably won't appeal to gose purists, but it is an interesting, well made experiment.
Reviewed by zac16125 from South Carolina
3.74/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
When the light Gose out
A: black with light browning on the edges, a big very light tan head build then dissipates down fairly quickly; leaves some small patches of lacing 4.25
S: sour, wheat, salty, some roasted malt characters 4
T: mildly tart but not very sour, not really salty at all, mild dark roasty characters 3.5
M/D: medium body, carbonation low but ok, drinkability is average3.75
O: unique, I've never had a black Gose/dark Gose before; for me the conglomeration of flavors is not ideal, but I do think they pulled off what the were anticipating to do; interesting and worth a try 3.75
Aug 30, 2015A: black with light browning on the edges, a big very light tan head build then dissipates down fairly quickly; leaves some small patches of lacing 4.25
S: sour, wheat, salty, some roasted malt characters 4
T: mildly tart but not very sour, not really salty at all, mild dark roasty characters 3.5
M/D: medium body, carbonation low but ok, drinkability is average3.75
O: unique, I've never had a black Gose/dark Gose before; for me the conglomeration of flavors is not ideal, but I do think they pulled off what the were anticipating to do; interesting and worth a try 3.75
Reviewed by SPLITGRIN from Kentucky
3.9/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Biscuity brown head sets on top of a doctor pepper brown body. Nose is funky and slightly soapy. Clean crisp sourness rolls over the tongue. A bit of dark fruit and and vanilla play wonderfully on the palate. This is a sensationally drinkable beer. Very refreshing for the title "black".
Aug 28, 2015Reviewed by ONovoMexicano from New Mexico
3.55/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Served in a tulip.
Oatmeal-colored head over a pitch-black body. Fizzy quality to the head. Dissipates quickly. 4.25
The aroma smells more sour than tart and mixed with dark roast malt reminds me of a sour stout. Nothing else is detectable. 3.5
Dark roast flavor starts things, then salinity mid-palate and then a floral, very hibiscus-y flavor takes things to the finish. Unique for sure although I'm missing some tartness and the usual gose flavors I like. I occasionally get a spice flavor. 3.5
Tartness is very light and seems to come only at the finish when the hibiscus kicks in. There's a roasty malt flavor that lingers and salt dries the beer out slightly mid-palate. Somehow I get spice feel. 3.5
This is interesting but the gose seems lost in it.
Jul 30, 2015Oatmeal-colored head over a pitch-black body. Fizzy quality to the head. Dissipates quickly. 4.25
The aroma smells more sour than tart and mixed with dark roast malt reminds me of a sour stout. Nothing else is detectable. 3.5
Dark roast flavor starts things, then salinity mid-palate and then a floral, very hibiscus-y flavor takes things to the finish. Unique for sure although I'm missing some tartness and the usual gose flavors I like. I occasionally get a spice flavor. 3.5
Tartness is very light and seems to come only at the finish when the hibiscus kicks in. There's a roasty malt flavor that lingers and salt dries the beer out slightly mid-palate. Somehow I get spice feel. 3.5
This is interesting but the gose seems lost in it.
Reviewed by Ciocanelu from Romania
4/5 rDev +5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Looks like a porter when poured. Head is completely gone after a short time. Tart aroma with some roasty notes. Taste is not overly tart and has a bit of salty minerality. Overall it's a good beer but nothing really special.
Jul 23, 2015Reviewed by Slatetank from Pennsylvania
4.13/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
4.13/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
I picked this up at Barley Mow in West Reading -poured chilled in a tumbler shared with tenderbranson69.
The color is black with medium tan head and very fine bead retention is decent yet it is not lasting but apropos of this style. The smell has a slight roasted aroma with subtle sour odor and mild funk with an almost stone-fruit type smell. The feel is tangy with medium carbonation and light roast with subtle spice and very dry but not quite chalky.
The flavor is very good with moderate tangy not extremely sour with slight yeast tanginess a sort of sweet-tart mixed with cocoa from the malt with light salt taste in the back and subtle fruit component with black cherry-like flavor and light nutty almost like pistachio with the gentle roast and salt combo -a low residual sour taste lingers with slight funk in the mostly clean finish. Overall I loved this -a different take on the Gose style a very successful collaboration that achieves what the brewer(s) set out to achieve. I like how the dark malt compliments but is not too intense that dark cocoa quality with slight tangy cherry sour fruitiness is enjoyable.
Jul 20, 2015The color is black with medium tan head and very fine bead retention is decent yet it is not lasting but apropos of this style. The smell has a slight roasted aroma with subtle sour odor and mild funk with an almost stone-fruit type smell. The feel is tangy with medium carbonation and light roast with subtle spice and very dry but not quite chalky.
The flavor is very good with moderate tangy not extremely sour with slight yeast tanginess a sort of sweet-tart mixed with cocoa from the malt with light salt taste in the back and subtle fruit component with black cherry-like flavor and light nutty almost like pistachio with the gentle roast and salt combo -a low residual sour taste lingers with slight funk in the mostly clean finish. Overall I loved this -a different take on the Gose style a very successful collaboration that achieves what the brewer(s) set out to achieve. I like how the dark malt compliments but is not too intense that dark cocoa quality with slight tangy cherry sour fruitiness is enjoyable.
When The Light Gose Out from Siren Craft Brew
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
85 ratings
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