BEER to BEER: Two Gose, One Review

Bevees’ Beer to Beer cracks open the latest and greatest non-alcoholic brews from around B.C., Canada, and the world to help you decide how to spend your hard-earned dough.

Peach and guava. They're flavours synonymous with summer. And while the warm weather is slipping through our fingers, and B.C. peaches never even made an appearance this year, all is not lost. If you're looking for a last sip of summer, here's two non-alcoholic fruit beers that taste like they're fresh from the orchard.

Partake Brewing Peach Gose

A gose (pronounced “GO-suh”) is a traditional German beer style that’s fizzy, salty, and tart. And Partake Brewing’s Peach Gose certainly fits the bill. It pours a pale gold, like waning sunlight, from the simple and eye-catching peach-coloured can. The effervescence tickles the tongue and stimulates the palate while delivering a candy-sweet sniff of fuzzy peach. True to name, it’s sweet, sour, and salty ⏤ like your favorite ornery aunt. It’s best enjoyed wherever you can find a lingering ray of sunlight. Tantalizing, light, and refreshing (and only 25 calories per can) it’s a thirst quencher that, like summer itself, will make you wish it could last forever.

The Peach Gose is the most experimental of Partake’s lineup (including a blonde ale, pale ale, red ale, IPA, hazy IPA, and stout). Find the whole selection at Bevees.

Collective Arts Guava Gose

If Partake’s Peach Gose is like your favourite aunt, Collective Arts Guava Gose is your cool cousin. While Partake opted for natural flavour to impart its peachiness, Collective Arts went all the way to the candy shop with the addition of guava puree. The result is a higher calorie count (110 per can), but also a bigger impact on the flavour scale. Way bigger. The Guava Gose pours a hazy rose, like the first blush of a sailor’s sunset. The thick, fluffy head wafts wave after wave of tropical aromas. A long-lasting effervescence coats the glass and delivers a sweet, soft, fruity goodness directly to your taste buds. As a good gose should, it finishes tart and slightly salty ⏤ just enough to make your salivary glands gush for more. If you’re a fan of Bomber Brewing’s legendary Parklife Passionfruit Ale, you’ll love this one. Fill your fridge with as many of these as you can to keep away the September sadness as long as possible.

Collective Arts Guava Gose and Emerald Stout (review coming soon) are now on the shelf at Bevees.

Partake Brewing Peach Gose and Collective Arts Guava Gose are available now at Bevees in Port Coquitlam, home to Greater Vancouver's largest selection of booze-free beverages. Shop today at https://boozefreebevees.ca.