No. 11Pickle Beers & Beer Cocktails
Pickle Gose
A salty, sour German wheat beer meets its soulmate: the jar.
A Pickle Gose is a tart, salty gose beer with a small splash of dill pickle brine and fresh dill. Gose is already brewed with salt and coriander, so it needs less brine than the other pickle beers, and the result is bright, sour and herbal. It is the sourest, most pickle-like beer in this section.
21+Updated
- Glass
- pilsner glass
- Method
- Built in the glass
- Time
- 2 min
- Makes
- 1 drink
Ingredients
Amounts for 1, in ounces.
- 12 oz gose beer (classic, unfruited, cold)
- ¾ oz dill pickle brine (chilled)
- 2 sprigs fresh dill
- 1 slice dill pickle (a chip, for garnish)
- Glass
- pilsner glass
- Garnish
- dill sprig and pickle chip
How to make it
- Rub one dill sprig around the inside of a chilled 16-oz pilsner glass.
- Add the pickle brine.
- Tilt the glass and slowly pour in the gose.
- Garnish with the second dill sprig and a pickle chip.
Bar tips
- Taste your gose first; some are quite salty, so start with 0.5 oz of brine.
- Skip fruited goses here: a classic, unflavored gose lets the dill shine.
Bar lore
Gose is a sour wheat beer brewed with salt and coriander that began in Goslar, Germany, and became Leipzig's local specialty. Production stopped in 1966, and Leipzig pub owner Lothar Goldhahn brought it back in the mid-1980s.
Drink responsibly. This one is for adults of legal drinking age. Want it without the booze? The zero-proof drinks are just as briny.
Full recipe: dillin.org/recipes/pickle-gose
