Salt the Snail
Side A Brewing - Public House

name makes me sad, but the beer is wonderful, one of the better takes on gose ive had from an american brewery in recent memory, quite salty, perfect acidity, and done with calamansi fruit, which is a neat touch, adds real complimentary citrus to the mix, highly aromatic and flavorful, and also real wheaty at its core, but also majorly drinkable, so this really takes me where i want it to, impressive execution. wheaty to pale orange toned with light haze and fine looking carbonation but just a short layer of white bubbles on top from the tap. the nose is awesome, mouthwatering but not because its bracingly sour, its just tart, clean and lactic and hitting sort of in the jowls, even just from the nose, the citrus is piquant and obvious and limey, fully complimentary, notes of rocky minerality, pink grapefruit, and underripe green grapes or even green gooseberries too, drying and kind of pithy to me, totally salivating for this, the salt is a lovely touch, apparent in the nose and seemingly adding a quickness and freshness to it all. the flavor is even better than the nose, killer souring here, its tidy as heck, lemony and fast, without anything funky, cheesy, or residual really at all, not too acidic either, quenching, but this could easily be a multiple pint kind of sour, uncommon and professional. the citrus and salt together are so nice, calamansi is tangy and distinctive, seems authentic in this, well dosed, and the wheaty grain base provides enough body to have this feel soft rather than sharp. the salt has neat minerality and is robust on the finish, almost makes me thirsty for another sip after each sip i take, good business model. impressive and unique mix of flavors, genuinely well crafted, summery more than wintery, but they have an outstanding example of the style here, bravo!