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So The Story Goes - The Story of Gose, Part I: Brauwelt International
So The Story Goes - The Story of Gose, Part I: Brauwelt International
Fig. 2 Brauhaus Goslar as seen from the Marktkirche St. Cosmas and
Damian
perience and the roasted aromas In Saxony, once production was underway
and flavors are especially pleasing there, gose drinkers would probably not
on a frosty day. To commemorate have recognized the beer if they had drunk
the former mines and a now de- it in Goslar, because it would not have been
funct brewery of the same name, sour and most likely brewed using differ-
Brauhaus Goslar also produces ent ingredients and methods. Gose began
Rammelsberger Pils along with to be brewed in and around Leipzig, at least
cuisine inspired by and sourced in part, because production of the popular
from the Harz Mountains. beer in Goslar was abruptly halted after a
great fire claimed many of the city’s houses
in 1780. Though the buildings were rebuilt,
l Fire Extinguishes
Beer Production the breweries of Goslar never recovered.
The second part of this article will focus
At the height of Goslar’s beer pro- on the gose brewed in and around Leipzig.
duction in the mid-16th century,
387 houses had been granted the lAknowledgements
right to brew. Though the beer The authors would like to thank Odin Paul
was only supposed to be trans- and the Stadtarchiv Goslar for their gener-
ported one day’s journey away osity and kindness.
from the city (about 50 km), it
was often shipped much further. lLiterature
The steady stream of gose depart- 1. Zellmer, J.: “Das Brauwesen in Gos-
Fig 5. The brewhouse at Brauhaus Goslar ing Goslar’s city gates became lar“, Goslarer Archiv-Nachrichten,
infected on its passage through 11/2016.
qualities unique to this particular style of Central Europe by wild yeast and bacte- 2. Brinkmann, H.: “Das Brauwesen der
beer. The roastiness of the darker version ria – some probably residing in the barrels kaiserlich freien Reichsstadt Goslar“;
in combination with the other aromas and – which imparted the beer with the flavor Kommissionsverlag von J. Brumby, Go-
flavors makes for a distinctive sensorial ex- most drinkers began to associate with it. slar, 1925.