Ritterguts

Why it matters

Gose was extinct commercially for most of the twentieth century. Continuity of production, rather than reconstruction from records, is what makes this the reference for a style almost everybody else revived from paper.

Details

Reference beers

• Ritterguts Gose4.7% ABV

  The Leipzig Gose that kept going while the style was otherwise extinct, and the reference most revivals were built against.

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Styles it is associated with

• Gose — A lightly sour German wheat beer with added salt and coriander — tart, savoury and unusually thirst-quenching.