Iron Hill releases Tropical Blast Gose
Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant announced the release of Tropical Blast Gose, which brings together bright, bold tropical citrus flavors, and a unique tart-salty finish to create the ultimate, samba-like flavor dance for the palate. With bright notes of freshly squeezed blood orange and pineapple up front, it boasts a subtly salty, refreshing finish that makes the drinker reach for another sip.
Tropical Blast Gose is available in 16-ounce cans at most Iron Hill Restaurant & Brewery locations in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; cost is $5.75 for a single 16-ounce can and $15.50 for a four-pack to take home and enjoy or pick up on the way to the beach or a barbecue.
Born out of the passionate artistry of Iron Hill’s creative and visionary brewers, the gose blends malts, hops and tropical juices to create a distinctly vibrant and light-bodied session beer with a 4.2 percent ABV. The sour-salty balance makes it the perfect pairing for dishes ranging from a seafood ceviche with mangos to blackened shrimp tacos with habanero pineapple salad, or a watermelon feta salad and peach crisp with vanilla ice cream.
Goses, which are traditionally brewed to be slightly tangy and salty, have a long-standing German history since the 16th century. They are brewed using malted barley and wheat to provide both a bit of sharpness and a smooth mouthfeel. After the brewhouse addition of spices such as coriander, the style is then fermented with wild, top-fermenting yeast to produce a dry, bubbly, puckery product. Because brewing goses required more wheat than the standard lager beers in vogue at the time, they fell out of production as post-World War II East Germany (where gose was primarily brewed) needed to ration its supply of wheat for bread making. The demolition of the Berlin Wall, in combination with the booming North American craft beer movement in the late 1980s, encouraged the gose resurgence in Germany with local Leipzig brewers and provided a canvas of endless creative possibilities for North American craft brewers.
“At Iron Hill, we always enjoy pushing the flavor envelope, and this latest limited release is no exception,” said Iron Hill Restaurant and Brewery co-founder and Director of Brewery Operations Mark Edelson. “Tropical Blast Gose was an experiment into the unknown and resulted in a bright, cheery and sunny beer, hopefully like the people who want to drink it.”
For more information, go to www.ironhillbrewery.com.
