Little Wolf / Stellenbosch - Sorghum Gose
Little Wolf Brewery
- From:
- Little Wolf Brewery
- South Africa
- Style:
- Gose
- ABV:
- 3.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.81 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 31, 2019
- Added:
- Mar 31, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This is our African take on the classic tart and salty German Gose (Gose-uh). Sorghum, the traditional grain in Umqombothi, gives the beer a rustic grainy character, while kettle-souring lifts the flavour profile with a light lemony tartness, a hallmark of the classic style. Renosterbos-infused sea salt from the Cape Town Fynbos Experience adds a hint of salinity and a herbal accent.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by kemoarps from Washington
3.81/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Very cloudy pale yellow body with a good finger of fuzzy white head that sticks around better than I'd expected. Once it starts to dissipate though, it disappears almost immediately leaving just some discrete wet bubbles raising to the top.
Nose has an interesting blend of tart gose notes and an almost floral/nectar note that I attribute to the use of fynbos. Really interesting. Hints of lager-type malts.
Taste doesn't have quite the same enticing layers. Much more muddled and subdued. Light earthiness and more grains than tart or salinity. There is a little bit of each of the latter in there though, Focus is more on the earthy grains though, which is enjoyable enough on its own, but seems a little out of place in the style. Finish draws closer to the tart but it's not a bright tartness, much more dull/earthy but still a little tart. Might be some banana-esque in there as well, but it could be an artifact of hearing Umqombothi described using banana-descriptors, since this features sorghum, and sorghum is used in Umqombothi, and I don't really know what sorghum tastes like otherwise, ha.
Drinkable and enjoyable. Bright effervescent carbonation, and the finish is much more dry than I'd expected.
An interesting take on the style, and enjoyable, even if it strays somewhat. Definitely glad to have grabbed a can and hauled it back across the globe!
Mar 31, 2019Nose has an interesting blend of tart gose notes and an almost floral/nectar note that I attribute to the use of fynbos. Really interesting. Hints of lager-type malts.
Taste doesn't have quite the same enticing layers. Much more muddled and subdued. Light earthiness and more grains than tart or salinity. There is a little bit of each of the latter in there though, Focus is more on the earthy grains though, which is enjoyable enough on its own, but seems a little out of place in the style. Finish draws closer to the tart but it's not a bright tartness, much more dull/earthy but still a little tart. Might be some banana-esque in there as well, but it could be an artifact of hearing Umqombothi described using banana-descriptors, since this features sorghum, and sorghum is used in Umqombothi, and I don't really know what sorghum tastes like otherwise, ha.
Drinkable and enjoyable. Bright effervescent carbonation, and the finish is much more dry than I'd expected.
An interesting take on the style, and enjoyable, even if it strays somewhat. Definitely glad to have grabbed a can and hauled it back across the globe!
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