DDHHose
de Garde Brewing

Somehow the universe aligns, or maybe its just coincidence. Anyways, I'm getting ready to take off for the Nevada baseball home opener, and next in the cue is a review from the Nevada football home opener. Fitting. Now, I love Hose, puttin' shoulders on mats and bangin' rats aside, let's see if DDH Hose is a point of diminishing returns or whatnot.

Pours similar, a cloudy bright yellow with 1/3" virgin white head. Label says this is 5%, I thought it used to be 4% but whatever. The aroma is wildly containing so many different things, yes, it is about the hoppiest gose (even being over a year old) I've ever had, in terms of aroma. Lemon, coriander, orange, hay, wheat, salt, green apple, vegetal hoppiness and Tillamook yogurt cheese funk, its all there. Well done.

Taste just keeps pushing the awesomeness. Body remains light despite a plethora of flavors. Wheat is bright. Lemon yogurt smack, orange, coriander still kicking hard. The hop aspect was more discernable in the nose rather than the taste, comes back around to a more traditional gose culmination. Well carbonated. Light white wine green grape comes up alongside the green apple. Damn I love this beer.

Wish I had more time today, I'd break some more de garde out.

 

 

 

ive never had the normal hose to compare but this was legit. some amount of bottle conditioning obviously happens, and the cork and cap setup on a beer like this adds something, say what you will. the orange is a cool addition, subtle here and with just about all of its sweetness fermented right out of it, and rather subtle on the coriander too, but this i suppose is a gose at its core which is cool, the dry hopping just modernizes it in such a flattering way, still completely classic, but there is something about this that pops to another level now, almost an intangible, super impressive, as de garde so often is! hazy but light in tone and lively. vibrant and fresh in the nose, but white wine, oak, green grape, and bretty funk are part of it, along with lemon and lacto and the salt. the flavor rips, hop driven but not without contributions from all elements, definitely seems wild more than most of these which are more obviously kettle soured, so much more brett and time on this, amazing. the orange is a cool twist, makes it summery and slightly tropical, super cohesive with the hops, but there is a champagne element here too, even with the hops up front. amazing stuff, really taking the gose to the next level despite what is trendy with the style right now. they have a winner here, supremely drinkable and a heck of a night cap after a monster day/evening/night of drinking beers. wow!