Today we've got something very special! We've got on of California The Bruery's Terreux in a can!

The Bruery comes from Patrick Rue, who's blended his name with the word brewery to give Bruery. The Bruery wasn't quite the first to come on to California's craft beer scene, and that's driven its ethos to largely stay away from brewing IPA's - after all did California really need another IPA? Couldn't something more innovative and creative be done? Well, that's what Patrick had set out to achieve.

Patrick Rue, who founded The Bruery.

Instead of the usual IPA's, Patrick had preferred to focus on more Belgian-style beers which he himself loved, and thus what started out as a humble homebrew kit given to him by his wife has today become one of California's most established breweries. Patrick had given up on being a lawyer, realising that he was rather dispassionate about the field, and had concluded that he'd be better off doing something he cared much more about - and thus beers! The Bruery has nevertheless gone way beyond its original scope and today counts over 700 expressions that they've brewed - including numerous legendary heavy hitters like the Black Tuesday imperial stout - that have traversed everything from wild ferments to barrel aged expressions.

Today alot of what the Bruery focuses on is the use of spirits and wine casks to age its beers, and has four primary styles of beers that it produces: The Bruery, which focuses on Belgian styles and barrel-aged Imperial stouts; Terreux, which is dedicated to sours, spontaneous and vinous styles; Ruekeller, that encapsulates traditional European beer styles from Marzen's to Helles lagers and Pilsners; and finally Offshoot, which is for the IPA's.

Expect lots of heavy hitters and funky beers from The Bruery - it's become their calling card.

With alot of barrel ageing and wild fermentation that it does, The Bruery's Terreux has always been one the brewery's most prized beers. And so today we've got a Gose Style Ale with added Syrah grapes, named Goses Are Red from the Terreux series. The inspiration here was to create a rosé wine style gose with a wheat-based ale. This is produced year round and weighs in at 5.6% ABV.

Let's give it a go!

Beer Review: Goses Are Red Gose Style Ale With Syrah Grapes, The Bruery Terreux

Tasting Notes

Colour: Dark Amber

Aroma: Gentle aromas of cooked longan, brown sugar, its rather herbal almost like cheng tng dessert (a Chinese dessert soup with a mix of herbal ingredients and rock sugar). There's also gentle scents of dried roses, as well as some crushed red grapes. It's gently sweet, with a rather rich herbal quality to it.

Taste: More of that richness and herbal qualities. It has a very deep and rich sweetness about it that's also quite mellow, along with a light tartness. There's also this soft barnyard quality of animal hide and hay, alittle bit of that brett funk coming through. This has a very nice depth about it, a really supple texture too, and most impressively, it's balanced and elegant. Subtle but its body is decked with this sort of mellow honey and brown sugar sweetness.

Finish: It turns more herbal here again, with more of those cooked longans, brown sugar, a few scoops of herbal cough syrup, as well as some light touches of dried rose petals and cooked grapes. It's got that gently refreshing tartness into the finish, whilst keeping it overall rich and mellow.

My Thoughts

Full-bodied, rich yet light and refreshing on the palate - this was definitely an impressive showing of Bruery's famed Terreux! It also featured a gentle hit of that brett funk that came through really nicely along with the cooked fruits and light tartness over an otherwise herbal and rich body. It's altogether mellow, gently sweet and herbal, with a slight spritely quality to it, along with a good depth to its body. What was most impressive though was the balance between the various textures and flavours on this - very, very well done Bruery! This one definitely lived up to the hype!

Kanpai!

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