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GOSE (pronounced GOH-zuh): An ancient and venerable draught from Goslar via Leipzig. A crisply sour ale that, if the ballads and poems of yore are to be believed, makes men strong and women beautiful. More recently, the sensation of the summer in North America. Versatile with food (see below). A beer worth its salt.
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Anybody want to drive down I-35 with me?
Austin Beerworks in Austin, Tex. launched a new brew called the Peacemaker this week with probably the coolest promotion I’ve ever heard. They’re selling 99-packs of the new beer for $99 in various locations around Austin, according to the brewers’ website. Might have to double-check my math here but I do believe that averages out to roughly one dollar per beer.
The 99-pack clocked in at seven feet long and 82 pounds, so I’m going to need you to drive your truck ’cause that ain’t gonna fit in my Chevy Aveo.
So how is the beer, anyway? According to the video below, “it’s light, balanced, refreshing and very session-able.†Sounds like a winner to me.
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At the beginning of his chapter on warm beer, W.T. Marchant expresses regret that “some of the more comforting drinks,†such as wassail, had waned in popularity over the years. “When beer was the staple drink, morning, noon, and night,†he continues, “it was natural that our ancestors would prefer their breakfast beer warm and their ‘nightcaps’ flavoured, hence the variety of their comforting drinks†(599).
Pours true gold. Perfect amber. White head starts fat and falls of webby and sticky, then to a film on top before it goes away completely. not too much lacing. Lots of bubbles to look at.
Nose is lovely. Sweet hint of pear and some lovely soft biscuit malt sweetness. A bit more clove than I expected at first but nice and a very faint banana in back. Some sweet flower petals and as it warms some pungent bitter grass.
Lovely in the drink with a crisp and dry malt.A softness that is actually excited by all those bubbles. The clove and the fruit combine lovely and earthy at first then give way to a fruity middle made up of light peach and a little pear around the edges. The finish is dry and drying to the palate with a light remnant of the malt sweetness, a bit of ticklish spice and that lovely peach. It lingers but not long .
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Maria Devan lives in Ithaca, NY and is frequent reviewer of beer and a beer lover deluxe.
Today, Andreas Bogk won’t name the employee who let him in, and he won’t tell you exactly where this took place: What they did was more or less illegal, after all, and Andreas is nothing if not cautious, rarely saying more than he really has to. In all likelihood he could have just broken into the lab himself, cracking the lock on the door or performing a clever bit of social engineering to scam his way inside, but Andreas likes to make things easy when he can, and having a friend with a key is a lot simpler than hacking a passcode or picking a lock.
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Barley growers aren’t going to like this report. It’s a nasty, invasive and non native grass that’s called cheatgrass. It crowds out native grasses, tangles dog hair and ruins your socks and running shoes and grows all too well everywhere you don’t want it. But it may be good for beer.
A U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service report titled, An Economic Solution for an Environmental Problem: Cheatgrass indicates that cheatgrass seed (barley is grass seed too) could be a suitable beer ingredient.
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