@Stephen: I thought the Wöllnitzer Weissbier was a Berliner Weisse (meaning: no coriander or salt), but Ron Pattinson claims it’s a lichtenhainer. Whatever it is, I agree it’s really good.

The German pages of the Worthmühle are not so specific about their Gose, I would conclude that it is specially brewed for them, so maybe a somewhat different version.
Color-wise it looked exactly like the darker version in the Butterhanne, but tasted quite different.

Anyhow, I’m planning of more or less repeating my trip next year, first the Harz Region (prob. staying in Wernigerode for the steam trains), then onto Leipzig, then Franconia and/or Oberpfalz. But that is still months away.

Of course it is possible that there is big variation in between batches, and that they are brewed by the same people, and that the barmaid didn’t understand me / where the Gose is from. In that case our point would be that it’s definitely worth going to both, to taste the variation. But if anyone with better German than us can clear it up, then do let us know.

Tandleman / Adeptus – we caught a few minutes of “Bauer sucht Frau” on German telly, and even then, where they had a pig-farmer, they didn’t show the pigs…

Wilson – we usually have a specific homebrew in mind when we say that. It’s normally our first few attempts at a normal English bitter, where what we end up with is too much residual sweetness from dark malts / lack of hop flavour / lack of decent finish. We are a bit lazy about our descriptions sometimes!