Freigeist Geisterzug Gose Rhabarber
3.5
200 reviews
Stolberg, Germany
Community reviews
Bottle shared, amber pour with light aromas of rhubarb, lemon and baked pastry. Salty sweet and lightly fruity.
Clear deep golden hue with a super thin white spotty cap. Bright Gose aromas of light acidity and wheat with a nice lemon-lime soda like sweetness and a touch of rhubarb flavors. Delicate flavor that’s got rhubarbs and lemon/lime peel like on the nose with a light acidity and a light wheaty body. Delicate and crisp and light but flavorful.
Bottle. Cloudy, yellow color with a small head. With this one I just have to say, rhubarb sour ale. How does that sound? It's not as bad as all that but it's not great.
02.05.2014, tap @ CBC:
Small shortlasting head. Aroma is slightly fruity sour-ish, grapefruit, rhubarb, sorrel, sour berries, hints of tropical fruits. Taste is slightly sour-ish, grapefruit, sorrel, rhubarb, citrus peel, sour berries, lemon. Medium bitterness, nice acidic mouthfeel. Nice.
15-06-17 // 500ml, shared. Hazy golden colour. Nose: mild fruit, mild coriander. Taste: mild sour, mild sour finish.
500 ml bottle. Pours with a hazy orange color and a nice but small white head. The nose is sour fruity: rhubarb, gooseberry, some cereals, slightly herbs. Taste is more sour, some rhubarb, someother undefine fruits, some herbs. No salt. Sour-bittter finnish.
500ml bottle from Prairie Trail Hy-Vee, in a Sam Smith pint glass. Scent of wet grain, lightly toasted malt, apple juice, white grape juice and seawater with hints of melon and butter. Pours straw yellow with a solid finger of fizzy linen-white head. Explosive effervescence clings to the sides of the glass and streams up from the bottom without end. All saltine cracker up front, followed immediately by an acidic tartness I perceive as more grapey or cranberry than rhubarb, with a moderate salty tangy finish. Feather-light on the palate with serious carbonation, and very easy to drink. Only the mildest stringency from the salt, no mouthcoating qualities at all. Pretty confident I could put about six of these away in a half hour if I had half a reason to. Good but not great. I like gose beer, and I’m probably giving this one more points than I should based on that predisposition. The rhubarb flavor didn’t really come through in the beer the way I was hoping it would, the flavors and aromatics are a little too subdued, and the finish was rather weak, but it’s an okay brew as long as you don’t let expectations get the better of you.
BOTTLE 50 CL. Clear golden, small sediment, small head. Light bright fruity tart, rhubarb, dried apricot. Tart fruity, rhubarb, gooseberry, young grape vine. Light bodied and refreshing. Some pickles in the finish, nothing offensive. No salt. Very good.
Very pleasant fruity rhubarb, a bit spicy/tart in the taste, light medium lactic sourness, good carbonation and body, very refreshing
Bottle:
Hazy....dirty-amber with a soft white head.
Spicy rhubarb, berry aroma.
Taste is salty, grain malt, peppery rhubarb.
Mildly acid....really good....biting and bright.
Slightly hazy peach color with just a bit of white foam. Aroma has the rhubarb, a bit of yogurt and some sea water. Taste starts tart and fruity, slightly savory, really well balanced. Light to medium body with medium to low carbonation. A really good gose, maybe the best version of the Geisterzug series.
Bottle. Berry, rhubarb, biscuit malt, salt, and straw aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Moderately sweet berry/rhubarb, biscuit malt, light salt, and mildly bitter straw flavor. Good body. Excellent.
Aroma - tangy, slight orange, chamomile, and a certain unidentifiable dive bar urinal mint aroma - and I mean that in the nicest way.
Appearance - the body is hazy goldenrod, with great nucleation. The head is 1" and white and fades into a thin layer.
Taste - has a soft slightly tangy mix of wheat, rhubarb, gooseberry, and salt.
Palate - medium body, smooth texture, soft carbonation, and a slightly tangy and somewhat salty finish.
Tap at Gambrinus. Green moss, gooseberry, rhubarb, melon rind and a touch of smoke on the nose. Low carbonation with more lemon zest and a nice earthy character again with a touch of smoke. Some light brine on the finish. Quite nice and feels authentic with the low carbonation somehow.
Semmi hab, borostyán hab. Gyömbéres, fűszeres illat. Savanykás, fűszeres, gondolom rebarbarás, hajszálnyit sós. Közepesen testes és szénsavas, nem keserű, viszont egy picit fanyar. Rendkívül frissítő, kellemes sör.
Visual: Pours pale reddish-brown with no head, very thin ringed retention, several slow steady streams.
Nose: iced lemon tea (lvl-5)-pungency
Attack: crisp, low CO2, immediate tartness
Mid-palate: more tartness, lemon, rhubarb-red berries, medium sour-tangy subtle pukey, (lvl-4-sweetness), biscuity malt backbone
Finish: a touch salty, dry palate slight rough
Summary: Interesting in that the more drink it, the more you want to drink it - the tangy sour fruitiness is satisfying while tart finish yearns for another sip. Strange as it may seem, it tastes like a fruity lemon tea, but barley subbed in for the tea.
2nd retasting, Bottle Jockey bought $9 CAD in Jan 2015, cellared 8.5 years.
-initally tart sour, tastes of filtered caramelized apple juice, background grains, with some tang and tart sourness, finishes with a bit of salt on the tongue. Not much carbonation, drinks light and easy. Fruity for sure.
Hazy golden pour white head. Fruity barnyard aroma. Rhubarb right up front with some sweetness. Hints of salt and a tart finish with more rhubarb.
500ml bottle.
Very slight fruity aroma.
Hazy gold color with no head.
Salty Gose taste with tart rhubarb finish but thin at the back end.
It’s interesting. Not quite as sour as I like my gose. Got better the longer I drank it.
Bottle shared at Maakun’s. Light hazy golden with thin head. Sweet grain, seasalt, vegetal and fruity rhubarb notes. Light soapy, elderflower lemonade-like. Wet popcorn. Christmastree. Piss. Weird. Light sweet, bit sour, bit salty. Bit cardboardy. Under medium body, average carbonation, quite sessionable.
Bottle shared thanks to sjogro. Clear golden with short lasting fizzy white head. Very floral, soapy, light caramel and bread, some milky rhubarb, algae, dusty newspaper. Light sour and very light sweet, maybe a hint of salt. Under medium bodied with slick feel and low carbonation.
Taps hazy apple-cider golden with a thin eggshell head. Aroma is not strong, but offers rhubarb and malty notes. Flavor features rhubarb, sour fruit and fresh malt tones. Body and fizz are typical but enjoyable. Rhubarb rhubarb!
Draft at Haymaker. Orange pour. Nice, fairly sweet aroma. Lightly tart. Rhubarb flavor works quite nicely actually. Smooth, clean, drinkable. Less sour than most in this style but pretty nice.
Flaska från Boxbeers. Arom är rabarber och jordbubbar. Smakar mest smaksatt mineralvatten (dåligt kolsyrad), en del sälta, lätt syrligt. En skum blandning som inte fungerar.
On tap. Not quite a typical Gose, makes me think smaller brewers feel their customers want the oddest additional ingredients possible. Maybe they do. The rhubarb in this case does not bring anything special to the tap. OK, but this is meant more pejoratively than usual. Where can this trend end?
Tap at Beergeek, Freigeist tape over.Golden color with minimal white head. Aroma of malt, funk, rhubarbar. Taste, nice sourness coming through rhubarbar, also some malt. Very light salt. Tasty.
Tap at Beergeek Bar Freigeist tap takeover. Quite clear yellow colour. Light sourness which improves the freshness and drinkability. Slightly lactic. Lightly honeyish malty. Light rhubarb. Thin bodied. Great session beer.
appearance: cloudy gold, short fizzy white head quickly fading. aroma: slightly sour, funky, earthy, light raspberry (is that the rhubarb?). taste: light sourness and tartness up front, with earthy stone fruit and jammy notes I’ll guess is the rhubarb, with just a hint of funk and saltwater. finish: slight cracker note, hint of tartness, dry. notes: Not bad. Creative take on the style. Vertical including the spruce and quince versions. Knightly Spirits, Disney 2016.
Draft at Mikkeller CBC 2014.
Hazy, medium straw, white head.
Dry, light to medium bodied, low bitterness, balanced CO2.
Sour, rhubarb, citrus, wheat, very refreshing. (2014-05 backlog)
Ma Che, Rome. Creamy foam on clear gold. Robust fruity and earth. Pie sweetness, raspberry lemonade. Gose more muted. Clean, sharp flavor. A little soap, tart red fruit and lemonade. Refreshing, sharp, drinkable. Lots of ginger too, per Alberto’s notes.