Somebody at the Second Self brewery of Atlanta, Georgia, obviously enjoys the movie Top Gun. If you didn’t get the allusion (maybe you’ve never seen the movie), their Maverick & Gose ale is a tribute to Maverick and Goose, the two pilots from the film played by Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards. If you haven’t seen the film, go watch it now. We’ll wait for you.

Ah, you’re back! That’s great. Now we can get back to discussing Second Self Maverick and Gose. Well most of the things about it. There’s a few that I *could* tell you, but then I’d have to kill you. We’ll leave those out.

Observations from the can:

They describe the beer as:

Gose

Salty

Coriander

Tart

Dry Hopped

Fresh

The latter, of course, is relative to when you drink the beer, so I’m not sure about that as an adjective. It may or may not be true. They may mean original, but if so they should have said original. Anyway, there seems to be a date code on the can:

6DE27A

I will take that to mean that this beer is best by December 27^th of 2016 since it is named for Top Gun and not Back to the Future. I drank my can on November 25^th.

The can also says:

There's one 'o' in gose, boys.

From the website:

This beer arrives just in time to get your thirst out of the danger zone of the Georgia heat. Our FRESH take on a traditional Gose includes the addition of CORIANDER and is DRY-HOPPED with fruity Wakatu hops to balance out the slightly TART and SALTY nature of this fun beer.

For those unfamiliar with the style of beer, gose, it has old roots in Leipzig, Germany. Gose's from this area are typically described as slightly salty and tart which is how we made ours. This is our take on the German-style gose and what I call a "starter sour" beer.

Second Self Maverick & Gose has an alcohol content of 4.4% by volume with 8 IBUs. It sells at Total Wine for $10.99 a six-pack, which is $1 more than I think it should.

Second Self Maverick & Gose pours to a pale yellow color with a thick spritzy, short lived head and a tart-sour wheaty nose. Taking a sip, the beer has the light wheaty palate and gentle refreshing sourness I want from the style, followed by subtle coriander notes and a slightly salty finish. I think I might like more salt but this is still a credible example of the style and very refreshing indeed.

I didn’t get the fruitiness of the hops as promised, but that’s OK. I did get a very refreshing summer quencher loosely in the gose style. And I like gose. Definitely a beer I would buy again.

And remember, try a new beer today, and drink outside the box.

*Pricing data accurate at time of review or latest update. For reference only, based on actual price paid by reviewer.

(B)=Bottled

(D)=Draft



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