gose

noun

go·​se ˈgō-zə 

variants or Gose

plural goses or Goses

: a tart, low-alcohol ale typically brewed with malted wheat, coriander, and sea salt and often with fruit

Jackie Dodd … recommends goses for the warm weather months. "The tartness, with a hint of salt, just tastes like summer," she says.

—Kris Scott

Created more than a millennium ago in the German town of Goslar, gose is a wheat ale brewed with salty water, spiked with Lactobacillus … and seasoned with coriander.

—Aaron Goldfarb

In June … the team will brew a tart and refreshing lime gose.

—Cathy Kozlowicz

Some people are repulsed by the tartness of a Gose (I'm usually one of those people) but I think the fresh strawberries added during fermentation do something to tone down that tartness.

—Andre James

Examples of gose in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Two other wheat beers that are not as widespread but do have their devoted fans include Berliner weisse and gose. — Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026

Though offerings shift, look for a summer-classic watermelon gose, prickly pear sour, and even a dill sour ale infused with brine and pickles. — Chris Malloy, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from German Gose, probably after Gose, stream near Goslar, town in central Germany where the beer was first brewed

First Known Use

1796, in the meaning defined above