Bar Harbor Peach Ale

Brewed by Bar Harbor Brewing Company (Atlantic Brewing Company)
Style: Fruit Beer
Bar Harbor, Maine USA

Pour dark brown with small, tight, longlasting head. Smells nice of light peach and sweet malt. Flavor is much lighter with the peach being mostly covered by the malt-as it warms, a much rounder and sweeter flavor profile comes out as the peach works in as a nice background for the malts. Overall, its good but could use more backbone

I used to think I hated fruit beers, but now that i’ve had some good ones I really think that if they’re done well I like them. This peach is much better than it’s rating would lead me to believe. The sweet malty lighthouse ale base is perfect for adding the peach flavor to this brew. Delicious. I’m wondering if these other raters got the wrong brew!?

22oz bottle consumed on 9/13/2005. Brew #01709 (batch number maybe?). Deep ruddy-chartreuse color with some burgundy tones in there. Bottle conditioned and unfiltered. Big, light-beige head. Lacing is in sheets. Awesome looking beer. Peach essence and dry yeast in the nose. Slight hint of pale, sugary grains. Flavor is VERY attenuated, surprisingly so. Hugely so. Dry and papery, notes of seltzer water and salt. Peachy, dry and pretty uninspiring. Peppery carbonation, more saltiness on the end, pretzels and zero sweetness. As it warms and breathes, the peach flavor is more noticeable and slightly pleasant, but just can’t recover from the strange texture and complete lack of malt sweetness.

Holy peaches, batman! Very strong peach aroma and taste completely override this one. Interesting, but I cannot say I’d seek it out again.

Light reddish brown color with ready head. Malt, hop and peach tone in aroma. Peach nut flavor. Tastes more like sucking on a peach pit than an overwelling fruitiness and very good at that. Bar harbor has made some of the first fruit beers that I’ve tried that are worth drinking.

Pours a two-fingered white head leaving no lace, nice deep amber color. Strong carbonation, light bodied and sweet peach nose. Starts and finishes with a strong peach flavor but otherwise not much malt or hops. Would make a good summer beer. $3.99 for a 22oz bottle from Tully’s Beer & Wine Wells, Me.

Lovely aroma of peach and butter (diacetyl?), like a cobbler. Very mild flavor, some peach is actually accentuated by the proper food accompaniement (here pretzels actually doing it). But otherwise just vaguely malty and pretty uninspiring once it is in your mouth. Darker than many fruit beers. (2004 Christmas Party, my #13, group’s #12)

Bottle. Brown colors with a strong peach aroma and flavor. Otherwise painful and unenjoyable. It didn’t mix well. Christmas Party 2004 ranked 13/15 (mine) and 12/15 (group).