Pearlfisher
Landlord.
My local had a barrel of this on yesterday , it was wonderful , I'd never tasted a beer remotely resembling it
From Sharps website-
Panzerfaust (4.5% ABV), the first Black Gose beer to ever be created, is available now on limited release.
Part of a series of small batch brews, Panzerfaust was created by Head Brewer Stuart Howe in collaboration with beer writer Adrian Tierney-Jones.
Adrian said: "Panzerfaust is tangy and appetising, a wonderful fusion of dark malts and fragrant dry hopping. There is a pungent fruitiness on the nose, a grown-up fruitiness that translates onto the palate with the soothing smoothness of mocha and chocolate notes. This is all held in suspension by this adult citrus fruitiness with a just beyond the palate hint of quenching sourness. I'm thinking of a very elegant black IPA."
Stuart Howe ( Sharps head brewer )
"Dry hopping and spontaneous fermentation brings me on to my latest WIGIG Panzerfaust, the worldâs first, strongest and most environmentally-sound Gose. Panzerfaust is a collaboration brew with Adrian Tierney Jones, a man who once interviewed Morrissey for NME but is equally at home brawling on the pavement in Southwark in the early hours of the morning. The challenge was originally for me to brew a Gose true to the Leipzig tradition. I saw this as too easy and not craft enough so Black Gose was born.
Gose is a refreshing, sour beer with a high salt concentration so our black gose has a generous concentration of chloride, potassium and a good amount of sodium (too much makes the beer undrinkable). The sourness in the cask version comes from lactic acid derived from lactic acid bacteria which has been purified to remove the bugs. In the aged bottled version this will come from the spontaneous fermentation expected to happen at any time in the IBC in the yard of the brewery (or when it warms up maybe).
Sour, salty black beer does not sound appealing but a balance provided by non-fermentable sugars and dextrins from judiciously large amounts of special malts makes what is currently macerating in Simcoe in CT 16 multifariously enjoyable. So much so that the 9 pint sample keg I sent to Mr Tierney Jonesâ Dartmoor estate disappeared overnight. So far it is a riddle of a beer, complex and refreshing and doesnât drink like a black beer at all.
Once simcoeified and lacticated, Panzerfaust will be unleashed on drinkers across the UK and Ireland in February. "
From Sharps website-
Panzerfaust (4.5% ABV), the first Black Gose beer to ever be created, is available now on limited release.
Part of a series of small batch brews, Panzerfaust was created by Head Brewer Stuart Howe in collaboration with beer writer Adrian Tierney-Jones.
Adrian said: "Panzerfaust is tangy and appetising, a wonderful fusion of dark malts and fragrant dry hopping. There is a pungent fruitiness on the nose, a grown-up fruitiness that translates onto the palate with the soothing smoothness of mocha and chocolate notes. This is all held in suspension by this adult citrus fruitiness with a just beyond the palate hint of quenching sourness. I'm thinking of a very elegant black IPA."
Stuart Howe ( Sharps head brewer )
"Dry hopping and spontaneous fermentation brings me on to my latest WIGIG Panzerfaust, the worldâs first, strongest and most environmentally-sound Gose. Panzerfaust is a collaboration brew with Adrian Tierney Jones, a man who once interviewed Morrissey for NME but is equally at home brawling on the pavement in Southwark in the early hours of the morning. The challenge was originally for me to brew a Gose true to the Leipzig tradition. I saw this as too easy and not craft enough so Black Gose was born.
Gose is a refreshing, sour beer with a high salt concentration so our black gose has a generous concentration of chloride, potassium and a good amount of sodium (too much makes the beer undrinkable). The sourness in the cask version comes from lactic acid derived from lactic acid bacteria which has been purified to remove the bugs. In the aged bottled version this will come from the spontaneous fermentation expected to happen at any time in the IBC in the yard of the brewery (or when it warms up maybe).
Sour, salty black beer does not sound appealing but a balance provided by non-fermentable sugars and dextrins from judiciously large amounts of special malts makes what is currently macerating in Simcoe in CT 16 multifariously enjoyable. So much so that the 9 pint sample keg I sent to Mr Tierney Jonesâ Dartmoor estate disappeared overnight. So far it is a riddle of a beer, complex and refreshing and doesnât drink like a black beer at all.
Once simcoeified and lacticated, Panzerfaust will be unleashed on drinkers across the UK and Ireland in February. "
