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Guys, I want to talk to you about this magnificent style of beer called gose. I think it's the perfect bridge beer between Summer and Fall because it's light, tart, and sometimes a little bit salty and I love all of those things.

The first time the words "sour beer" were uttered in my presence, I was really taken aback. My beer should NOT taste like sour patch kids, I insisted. Go back to the weird-beer-hole you came from, sour beer lovers!

Then I had a radler; a delicious, half beer half citrus soda drink and thought, okay, not bad. But those had decidedly citrusy notes (for obvious reasons) which I liked and was familiar with. So still I asked... SOUR BEERS?!

Then, I tried a gose. I was sold. Not SUPER tart, and not sweet pretty much at all. And not weird.

This dude I hang out with a lot who is crazy into beer purchased a six-pack of this awesome Anderson Valley Gose, amazingly titled "The Kimmie, The Yink, and the Holy Gose Ale" in this awesome purple can. It was demolished. It went with every fish dish we consumed this week. I can't recommend it enough.

Have one for me this weekend!

The dinner conversation went a little something like,

Oh man. I really want tacos. FISH TACOS. Yeah fish tacos. And fresh salsa. What about fruit salsa?

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Seriously friends, this looks exactly as good as it tasted.

WHATCHU NEED:

3-4 peaches, preferably on the ripe side, and could tip over into overripe Bushel of cilantro, finely chopped Half the juice of a lemon Half the juice of a lime One clove of garlic, minced Green bell pepper, diced Small white or yellow onion, diced Salt Pepper Litttttle bit of olive oil

HOW YOU DO THIS:

Combine all of this delicious junk into a mixing bowl, or as I did, in a plastic ziplock tupperware. Drizzle a little bit of EVOO on at the end and then SHAKE IT UP!

I'm not even kidding when I say this is the freshest, tastiest salsa I've ever made. And I don't even *like* fruit salsa. Instant convert.

Had a little guac with it too. Could have done without considering how amazing this salsa was. Tilapia dressed as it came, s&p with butter and a kick of coriander. Perfection.

Guys, have you been to a Whole Foods recently? Have you seen special pyramids of goodness stacked up? Because it cannot be ignored.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS???

It's pumpkin ale time. It's "Time To Lose Your Shit About Pumpkin Ale" time.

And in my humble opinion, Schlafy's Pumpkin Ale is the top of the charts. Other pumpkin beers kiss its cute little feet. It is pumpkin heaven.

But seriously says every one ever, August?? Pumpkin Ale?? What??

Distribution for this beauty started August 1st, as Schlafly tells us, for a couple of reasons:

1) RUNNING A BREWERY IS HARD, GUYS.

2) Because of demand and how much they love their fans, they have had to augment their entire brewing schedule to make sure enough of this golden beauty fall nectar is pumped out to distribute out of St. Louis (where they're based).

This is an issue of:

     a) Small time frame for which pumpkin ale is actually in season, before Oktoberfest takes over, of course. If they wanted to produce enough pumpkin ale to make everyone happy AND for it to be in season, it would have to take up all of the tanks in the factory for FIVE WEEKS.

     b) Yeast supply. I'll let their blog do the talking here because it involves science and math.

a. 8% Pumpkin Ale is tough on yeast: We can only harvest yeast from a batch of Pumpkin and reuse it once. The second time, it is too stressed to reuse. So, we would quickly run out of out American Ale yeast.

b. We would run out of other yeast as well: We can’t just stop brewing Pale Ale and Kolsch. Yeast is a living organism. Just like all living organisms, it requires beer to survive (wait, did I mix that up again?).

c. We would have old beer: If we didn’t brew Pale Ale for 5 weeks, we would have to brew and package that beer ahead of time. So, we would have a bunch of 5-week-old beer just hitting our supply chain. We like tasty beer and Pale Ale is more tasty when it is fresh.

Read more about this on their 2013 Pumpkin blog post, here.

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