When will MN get a 6 pack sour?

Nomader weisse is here and 13.99$ a sixer. Very tasty!w

 

Haven't had it but can say that I have heard people say it is close enough to stand-in as a substitute for WB

 

Well, lets not forget about Mexican Cake. Westbrook Gose is good and all, but Mexican Cake is where all of the hype is. You just hear about Gose more of the year because its produced throughout the warm part of the year (which is a large part of the year in SC). Take a look at the Southeast forum and you'll see the CF that is the Mexican Cake thread and just wait until they announce a release date for BA Mexican Cake in the next week or two and the forum will probably burn to the ground

The Kimmie, The Yink & The Holy Gose (a Boontish reference to the Holy Trinity) is indeed AV's Gose. I like it every bit as much as Westbrook's Gose. Its definitely different than Westbrook's, not as sour, maybe a bit saltier. I'd probably prefer Westbrook's, but I'm certainly not turning down AV's (especially since I can occasionally get AV's and Westbrook doesn't distribute to NC...)

 

While I don't think of gose as a true "sour" I'm sure MN will be seeing the new Boulevard Hibiscus Gose when it comes out

 

AV's gose is not as acidic as the WB version. I really like it and it is easier to drink because it is more of a delicate sour. It goes down quickly on a warm day. I also think it has a ever so slight bit of funk to it.

 

This is a great beer. I really need to grab more of it, but I did some damage in Sconie a couple weeks ago with New Glarus (found a Holiday gift set, their Ode Bruin and their Berliner Weiss so my beer budget is toast). Last I checked Haskell's in White Bear Lake had it on shelves, Merwins down on Snelling as well as Cellars in Roseville. It's pretty easy to find at most decent liquor stores.

 

Not a Gose but White Birch Blueberry Berliner Weisse is a nice tart six pack for $11. The only ownside is that White Birch Berlinners have alot of sediment.

 

The raspberry was good as well. Destiehl has has some 4 packs that are pretty good.

 

Was going to suggest Destihl although one of the versions (a flanders maybe) I sampled had a lot of tomato flavor.

 

i'm always a little hesitant to grab anything from white birch because there's a date on the label, and it seems like everything i ever find from them is from 2013 or 2014. am i missing something here, or does it just sit everywhere?

 

How people have not been snatching up Yuzu Fierce by Off Color blows me away! Liquor store near me has 4-packs for $7.50, I've gone through most of a case so far.

 

How has no one mentioned Distihl yet? I've seen Lynbrook, Counter Clock Weiss and Here Gose Nothin' in our market thus far. All cans. All sourz. All crushable.

 

Someone mentioned it 3 posts above you!!!

I agree...tasty stuff.

 

I had to chuckle a little bit about this post because long ago, back in the day (as they say), "white beer" was quite common in the United States, and cheap. It was basically Berliner Weiss, which was quickly made - perhaps not even boiled - and didn't require any oak barrels or tanks for aging. Then came Schlitz and Anheuser-Busch, ruining 'American Farmhouse Ale' for all of us

 

Doh! I even did a thread search to make sure no one mentioned it. Anyway, I'm sure someone is bound to come along and tell me, "Yeah, but they aren't 6-packs." And to that person, I say: buy three quads, and BOOM, 2 six packs, Nancy!

 

Citation needed.

 

paging @jesskidden What can you tell us about US "White Beer"?

 

Philadelphia, like Brooklyn and NYC, among the largest brewing cities in the US, also had numerous "Weiss Beer" brewers - over 25 existed in the last half of the 19th century, but, as was common, they were very small. In 1890, for instance, they brewed 8,750 bbl. of beer, which was about ½% of the city's total beer production.

The National Police Gazette (newspaper) claimed there were 99 Weiss Beer brewers in the US in 1884, which brewed 31,550 bbl. Total beer production that year was 19 million barrels.

Much of the material that can be found on US Weiss Beer in the general press of the time was about problems with taxing the beer - at the time, the Feds required all beer to be kegged and a tax stamp applied to it, which was "broken" when tapped. Even bottled beer was, at that time, kegged first and, typically, bottled by an independent "bottler". But, since all Weiss Beer was bottle-conditioned, there was no way for the brewers to pay the federal tax. The other major "issue" was whether it was an "intoxicating beverage" under existing laws.

 

So, it wasn't common then?

 

I'd say it was once "common" in the large urban regions and other areas with heavily German immigrant population but it was not particularly "popular" and never caught on with native Americans and other non-German nationalities (as lager did) or, probably, the American-born, German nationality next generation.

By the turn of the century, it was, well--- as the New York Sun said in 1906 "Little Drunk".


Post-Repeal brewing publications often mentioned US Weiss Beer but (IIRC) there's not much evidence of many Weiss beer brewers re-opening after Repeal. Even much of the Weiss beer brewed in the pre-Pro era was apparently brewed using corn grits rather than wheat malt (according to Wahl and Henius).