Red Horn Watermelon Crawl Gose

I know in the Fall i'm usually bonkers for pumpkin ales and Oktoberfests, and when it finally starts getting cooler here in central Texas, darker, heavier brews are usually my favorites, but when one of your local brewers makes a watermelon gose, you drink the damn watermelon gose.  And it certainly helps when it's as fantastic as the Watermelon Crawl Gose from Red Horn here in Cedar Park.  Coming in at 4.75% ABV, and pouring a hazy gold, the beer smells of wheat, yeast, fruit, and some floral hints.  Crisp and tart, but not overly so, the watermelon notes mesh nicely with the salt and sour, making for a ridiculously easy beer to drink.  I could drink this all day, Fall or not.

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Hell Or High Watermelon

Oh, the summer days and the beers inspired by them.  Of the too-numerous-to-count-them-all beers i drank while in San Diego a couple of weeks ago, Hell Or High Watermelon, a wheat beer from 21st Amendment Brewery out of San Francisco, just felt like the sort of brew to sip all day long on a lawn chair in the front yard.  To put it really simply, it's like a good hefeweizen...but with watermelon.  Said watermelon does not overpower the beer though.  The beer pours a straw color with minimal head, and smells of wheat, yeast, citrus, and watermelon.  The taste is the same, the watermelon mixing quite nicely with the light breadiness, creating a crisp and refreshing anytime kind of beer.  Unless you don't like watermelon.  In which case, skip this one you weirdo.

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