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Gose

Salted, coriander-spiced sour wheat beer, named for the river Gose whose water was naturally saline.

Goslar, then Leipzig
Origin
4–5%
Typical ABV
92
In the archive
4.9%
Average ABV here

Effectively extinct by the 1960s and rebuilt by a handful of Leipzig publicans. Most gose made today descends from a modern reading of an old recipe rather than an unbroken line.

Covered in Era 6 — The Styles That Nearly Died.

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