Bushel
Urban Artifact

 

 

12oz can. Date stamp on can bottom is '08/12/22'.
Murky, pale gold colored body. Bright white, fluffy head, but disappears over time. No lacing.
Aroma of spiced apple, made richer by the vanilla.
Taste is initially quite sweet and then turns to a dominant sour tone. Apple and lemon are balanced. Also lime and baking spice. After taste dries up quickly.
Nectar mouth feel. Very good carbonation. Salt residue on the lips.
Well balanced with the sweet and the sour.

 

 

 

Light and fluffy apple pie. Super good. Super refreshing. Can says it was canned all the way back in last July, but it tastes great still.

It says cellaring isn't recommended but this can is 8 months old now and tastes pretty great still im getting apple spice for sure. I'm sure it's more vibrant fresh but it is holding up quite fine

I have to add a category, longevity. This thing has been in my fridge for months. It is officially 6 months, four days and delicious.

It pours a translucent yellow with minor fizz. The aroma is fruity, yeasty, alive with active tangy taste. Nothing bad at all from being canned so long ago (watch me get sick tomorrow). It has a good tangy gose taste with enough tartness for me. It works.

Recommended. I don't know why I let it languish in my fridge for so long. Sorry.

Pours cloudy with a this white head. Nose is slightly sour with hint of apple, not as strong as I expected. Taste was similar to nose, slightly sour with hint of apple, not as I expected or hoped.

 

 

Got from the local store, served in a snifter.

Look: It pours a clear deep gold with a medium white head that dissipates completely after a few minutes, leaving a little lacing.

Smell: Can smell apples, cinnamon, brown sugar and pepper.

Taste: Macintosh apples, with honey, lemon, wheat and citrus. Some spices, peppers and cinnamon too.

Feel: Medium carbonation, has a champagne effervescence but mixed with apples and sugar.

Overall: a great fall take on a Gose.

It pours a hazy, but still see-through light golden color. Thin fizzy white head forms on the beer before quickly dissipating. In terms of appearance it looks like a classic gose. Aroma has notes of baked spiced apples - like a fresh baked apple pie in a can - cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander and all spice all waft across the nose. I am not getting much in the way of salt or the underlying gose as that baked apple aroma really dominates.

The taste is where things get a bit interesting. So, you get the baked apples and spices up front - fresh baked apples, nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, and coriander all come through. But then the back end of the gose comes through providing notes of wheat, crackery malt and salt. The salinity is not overpowering, but it is very noticeable. And that is where I cant decide if I like it or not. It reads on my palate like an apple pie that got over salted. Feel is light, brightly carbonated and crisp giving is an almost cider like feel. (A feel I suspect is reinforced by the apple flavors). Pretty dry on the finish.

Overall this is a really interesting gose. What I like about this is that they made it unique, but it is still recognizable as a gose. I think I like it, but I also suspect this is not a beer for everyone.

12 ounce can, canned on 09/09/21. Served in an Urban Artifact chalice, the beer pours a somewhat clear straw gold color with about an inch white head. Head retention is good, and there's a decent amount of lacing. The brew smells like cooked apples, cinnamon, coriander and some saltiness. Taste is just like the aroma to me, overall it tastes like a tart and salty apple pie. There's cooked apple, sugar, cinnamon, coriander, salt and bready flavors. Mouthfeel/body is light, it's refreshing and easy to drink with a moderate amount of carbonation. I liked this brew, certainly worth trying if you like apples and/or apple pies!

Faintly foggy straw yellow with a short white head that fizzles out to a sparsely bubbly surface leaving no head behind.

The tart and tingly start transitions to apple crisp before a bready exhale. The cinnamon is light and pleasant, while the apple is as if baked.

The medium-light body is effervescent and finishes semi-dry.

Overall it's a preferable autumn flavor to the pumpkin pie spice overload of the [pre]season, at least for me at this point in my life.

 

With fall on the horizon, its time to turn our attention to the foods and drinks to match the occasion. Urban Artifact sees this shift in culinary delight and churns out an apple pie inspired Gose.

Pale and slightly murky straw, Bushel pours bubbly and cloudy while building a modest scent of apple, pie spices and sourdough, floral and brine. As its froth settles, the initial sip is subtle and sweet with a continuance of bready sourdough, light taffy and a floral supple sweetness of honeysuckle.

With the sweetness settling on the middle palate, the briskness of acidity sets in. The apple flavors remain for a most cider-like impression with a modest suggestion of white wine. Hints of grape, pear and lime give the beer tartness while a spicy balance stems from cinnamon spices. A late taste brings up those brine and sourdough flavors once more as the beer closes simple and easy going on the palate.

Medium light and threatening with becoming watery and thin, Bushel is a fairly modest apple sour ale that has promise. In its current Gose state, the beer is just a rather boring example compared to most of their more characterful seasonal options.