Salty Bear
Sockeye Grill & Brewery

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From:
Sockeye Grill & Brewery
 
Idaho, United States
Style:
Gose
ABV:
6.2%
Score:
+8 ratings needed
Avg:
3.98 | pDev: 14.57%
Ratings:
2 | reviews: 2
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jul 23, 2021
Added:
Jun 17, 2017
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  1
Gose is an ancient German beer style that features sour and salty flavors. This interpretation combines our Huggy Bear Dark Sour, salt and caramel, all aged in a bourbon barrel. Multiple layers of flavor explode from the barrel into the bottle. Think of eating a salted caramel while drinking a whiskey sour. The impeccable balance of salt and sweetness leads itself perfectly to the sour tartness.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by Scotchboy from Idaho

3.39/5  rDev -14.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
On-tap at the brewery, sampled with low hopes. Clear dark brown pour with amber/caramel highlights and an off-khaki head. Starts with a modest sweetness, caramel and toffee, cocoa and richness/chocolate, touch of nuttiness, salinity, berry tartness, light lacto quality and mild notes of lemon as well. Thinner body. Interesting...kind of like a hybrid gose with some dessert sour-stout characteristics?
Jul 23, 2021
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Reviewed by poisoneddwarf from Idaho

4.56/5  rDev +14.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.75
750 ml bottle from Pilgrim's. Aroma is dark fruit, oak, caramel, lacto, gummy bears (not sure if the name of the beer is influencing that observation, but that's exactly what it smells like). Pours a deep dark brown with a long sustaining beige head. Taste is sour (7/10), acidic, salty and fruity. Like a bourbon barrel aged Duchesse De Bourgogne with salt and caramel. There's a faint sense of oxidation, but it's not obtrusive and it kind of compliments the flavors. Interesting concoction that's basically a salty Flanders Oud Bruin. This is really good and way exceeded my expectations.
Jun 17, 2017