Leipziger Gose is a top-fermenting wheat beer {60% wheat, 40% barley malt} with coriander and salt added in the boil. Lactic acid bacteria is added later.
It is a 4.5% ABV eclectic beer whose name evokes a close relationship to the renowned Lambic/Geuze breweries in the Valley Senne nearby Brussels, Belgium.
The refreshing sharpness of the salt is quite subtle. The finish is dry with the lactic acid bacteria providing some nice refreshing undertones.
The spread of the bottom-fermenting pilsner style, as well as economic decline of East Germany under communist regime, contributed to the demise of the Leipziger Gose which was last brewed in the mid 1960s.
On July 20, 2000 Thomas Schneider (no relations to the Schneider Wheatbeer brewery in Kelheim, Germany) revived the brewing of the Original Leipziger Gose in the famous “Bayerische Bahnhof” in Leipzig.
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