Reuben Gray has posted the roundup for The Session #100: “Resurrecting Lost Beer Styles.”
I’ve already pointed to several of these, but one more thought from Sean at Beer Search Party:
“Not to block someone from attempting a historical beer resurrection, but an authentic California Steam beer would be hard to re-create too and that is in the not so distant past. A Goslar Gose would be a big task primarily because no one from that era could verify it’s accuracy.”
Is it Gose from Goslar or from Leipzig we are interested in? Efforts in Kentucky to revive their version of Common and in Poland to resurrect Grodziskie have focused on what those beers were like at the height of their popularity. Using the same criteria, the choice would be Gose from Leipzig. In the case of Steam, is it the mysterious beer that emerged by the middle of the nineteenth century or the beer as it was brewed when Anchor Brewing opened at the end of the century. At the outset, Steam likely was an all-malt beer, but by the 1890s it most commonly often would have been made with a good dose of corn.
I don’t see why we couldn’t try to revive both. Two kinds of gose must be better than one, no? But I think you’re right that it’s too late for Goslar gose. There is gose available in Goslar, but it’s very touristy, and not at all like the real thing. The Original Ritterguts Gose from Leipzig probably is quite close.