Hop Grail
Gotsa Grape Ale
- Fruit Beer
- 4% ABV
- Label approved Oct 14, 2019
- Imported
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Gotsa Family Wines' Fruit Beer. Label approved 14 October 2019.
Imported by BLACK LAMB WINE, STETSON THOMAS ROBBINS.
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About this beer
It's the only label we have from Gotsa Family Wines. It is one of 87 fruit beer labels approved in October 2019. Its label was approved 17 days after it was submitted. It's imported by BLACK LAMB WINE, STETSON THOMAS ROBBINS; its label was approved for US sale.
From the label“I am an architect, turned winemaker, turned brewer. My beer started as an experiment for fun. It is made entirely from ingredients I grew or foraged with my family. Next to our vineyards we planted an ancient strain of barley we malt ourselves over a wood fire. The hops are collected from the banks of the local rivers. We always fall in. The water we use is from a spring next to the wine cellar. We add lees (yeast) from our wines to the fermenting beer and then a small amount of grape juice at bottling for bottling conditioning. The result is a refreshing, aromatically complex beer with fruity/malty flavors and a particular crispness. A beer for a wine lover. - Beka Gotsadze, architect, winemaker and brewer”
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Style: SpecialtyBrewery: Gotsa Family Wines