Dainton/Bacchus/White Lies – Grannys Cranny Gose, 2017, 4.5%ABV, 355ml can.

This is a collaboration between Dainton, Bacchus and White Lies Brewing.

Drank on 8/12/2017, from I.B.S.

Appearance: 2.5 – Cloudy, orange witha hint of pink/red. Nice head on pour that diasapears fully with no real lacing.

Smell/Aroma: 2 – Funky, very lacto acid funky.

Taste: 2.5 – Sour, tart, sour cherry but not fruity, cherry skin. A slight bready wheaty aftertaste. A little salty.

Mouthfeel/Palate: 2 – Fizzy, slightly puckering, bitey like lemon rind.

Overall: 2.5  – This is a nice sour beer.

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Bacchus Brewing

White Lies

Anderson Valley – Blood Orange Gose, 2017, 4.2%ABV, 355ml can.

Drank on 8/12/2017, from I.B.S.

Appearance: 2.5 – Light orange, slightly cloudy. Nice big soft head on pouring, small light lacing.

Smell/Aroma: 2.5 – Funky, fruity, citrus, orange, lacto funk.

Taste: 3.5 – Sour, lacto ants, tart, light orange citrus, lemon, salty

Mouthfeel/Palate: 3 – Puckering, juicy, salty dryness. Nice fizz.

Overall: 3.5  – This is a very good sessional sour beer.

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So I had the Anderson Valley Blood Orange Gose, and its good. Different to the Melon Gose, obviously. This one has more sour and citrus taste. If I could mixed a 6 of them It would be just the best summer drinking 6 pack. Its not as salty,  and I guess thats the fruit bitter maybe knocking some of that out. Its good.Its very enjoyable.

Also had A few Cheeky Monkey Old Reliable Pale Ales. These were good but nothing magic, a solid for its style I guess. Not bad, just good.

Anchor Brewing – California Lager. This is good, but todays didnt remind me of my first – which I thought was amazing. Maybe this one was a bit old. It felt a bit dulled and the malt was down and the bitterness quite one note. I will try this again, as it is great and Im sure this was just a bit of a dud.

Mornington Peninsula –Mosaic Single Hop IPA. This is Tinnage 007. A nice single hop IPA. I do like mosaic hops but more for smell/flavour etc, the bitterness is there and it OK but not that enjoyable to me.

Deschutes Brewery – Fresh Squeezed IPA. This smells a bit funky hops and its just Mosaic with Citra. A bit old this one, the hops are dull, the smell could be better. The beer itself seems pretty reliant on it being hoppy, theres not much else I can see going on, and the age had left the hops with only a blah bitterness. Will have to try again with a fresher bottle.

Cheeky Monkey – Southern Wailer Hop Flinger West Coat IPA. Still good, still fucking hoppy.

Anderson Valley – Briney Melon Gose. Still great.

Magic Rock – High Wire Grapefruit Pale Ale

Magic Rock – Salty Kiss Gooseberry Gose

Holgate Brewing – Hop Tart Semi-Sour Pale Ale

Two canned beers from a UK Craft brewery, not something I see or drink often. Both interesting beers/styles with some interesting ingredients.
The High Wire Grapefruit Pale Ale was nice and had a good grapefruit bitterness, sitting well with the hop bitterness. The Salty Kiss Gooseberry Gose had a nice [goose]berry tartness along with the saltyness, It also contained Sea Buckthorne – which are a berry that tastes “astringent, sour”, and I think I can notice such a taste and it not being the gooseberries, but its hard to say having never tasted Sea Buckthorne.Both good beer, sessionable, refreshing and interesting.

The Hop Tart was also nice, and another sour pale ale – a good combination, I like sour appearing more. Very enjoyable with a nice big bitter and sour hit. Im not sure how many beers I have had from Holgate in the past but this was both tasty and, again, and interesting beer, so I will keep an eye on that name.

Also at the IBS were Hostess Twinkies. I purchased one and my review walking home eating it was:

 And heres a picture or two

Mornington Peninsula Brewing – Dogs Bollocks Nitro English Special Bitter

Anderson Valley – Briney Melon Gose

Timothy Taylor – Landlord Pale Ale

Shepherd Neam – India Pale Ale

CUB – Melbourne Bitter

Adnams – Ghost Ship  Pale Ale

Had a Dogs Bollocks and a Melon Gose still around. Still loving that nitro carbonation.

The Landlord Pale ale was good, same for the Shepherd Neam IPA and the Adnams Pale Ale. Been reading Shut Up About Barkley Perkins a lot.

Melbourne Bitter is better than VB and Export.

Also had a 4 Pines Kolsch, a Founders All Day IPA and a Tooheys Old.

Great great great site: http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com.au/

Sierra Nevada – Hoptimum IPA

Founders – Mosaic Promise Single Hop Ale

Mornington Peninsula Brewing – Dogs Bollocks Nitro English Special Bitter

Anderson Valley – Briney Melon Gose

Been over IPA’s for forever now, no Idea why I still buy them. Hoptimum was peppery, very hop bitter.

Mosaic Promise wasnt bad, but I didnt get a sense of Mosaic, unless its a standard Founders hop and then its just a common hop taste…

More Otra Vez.

How GOOD is this beer? I would drink this as a regular sessional always if it was available at my local.
I HOPE to hell its still available here during summer.

Looks like S.N. have this listed as a Year Round beer, thank the Gods.

Garage Project – Hops on Pointe Champagne yeast Pilsner

BrewDog – Albino Squid Assassin Rye IPA

Anderson Valley – Briney Melon Gose

Sierra Nevada – Otra Vez Gose

Petrus – Aged Pale

Petrus – Oud Bruin

My RateBeer reviews for some of the above:

BrewDog – Albino Squid Assassin Rye IPA

Garage Project – Hops on Pointe Champagne yeast Pilsner

Sierra Nevada – Otra Vez Gose

Petrus – Aged Pale

Petrus – Oud Bruin

Anderson Valley Briney Melon Gose I didn’t rate on RateBeer as I had drank it a lot earlier.It is an awesome gose and supremely easy drinking. You can smell the watermelon, its got a good briney taste, a very good beer.