Dogfish Head Festina Lente

Formerly brewed at Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Milton, Delaware USA

Couleur pêche - dorée, totalement dépourvue de mousse. Les arômes acides et fruités rappelant le citron, les pêches et les pommes vertes semblent permettrent au liquide de faire un pas dans la bonne direction. Très tartrique en bouche, les fruits donnent l’impression d’être plus imitatif qu’authentique. Malgré son aspect tartrique convaincant, sa texture aqueuse et particulièrement son absence de carbonatation en font un liquide inanimé et quelque peu monotone à boire. J’en demeure curieux de voir son évolution au cours des prochaines versions.

Pours a hazy orange color with no head. Decent aroma of tart peaches. Flavor of tart peaches with acidity and some funkyness. Light body, dusty texture, flat carbonation.

Still appearance. Cloudy golden. Oh yes, peaches those are. Light leathery yeast create an adequate pool for the earthy and juicy tartness. Not very complex globally. Just an honest American attempt at lambic, but I’d definitely have enoyed it more without the dull flat body with more watery hints than I’d wish for. Otherwise, it had pleasant peachy and wheat peaks with touches of funk coming out once warming and a vinous grapefruit reminding lingering tartness.

Pours milky orange with a small white head. Tart sourish grapefruit aroma with some sweet hints. Quite sour and grapefruity flavor with milky tones. Surprisingly good for a non-belgian lambic. Thanks Mike (Eyedrinkale) for the trade!

An unclear orange beer with a disappearing beige head. The flavor is sour like grapefruit and so is the flavor. Good for an American go at a lambic.

Pours light peach/amber with a little fizz but now real head. Aroma a slight tart peach, cinnamon, and mild barnyard. Flavor of mild peach, medium tartness, slight barnyard and cheese. A somewhat dry woody finish.

2004 bottle. Pours orange with no head. Smell and taste is extremely tarte with hints of lemon and peach.

100% of non beer nerds would assume that this was some sort of wine upon tasting it. Out of a bottle. Pours a very cloudy orange color. The odor is very citrusy and sour with a light hint of peach. Very tart flavor. Actually, I didn’t instantly taste peach. Rather, at the end of my first glass I could taste the ghost of peaches in my mouth. There is almost no carbonation in this beer. A very sour tasting lambic that I enjoyed. But I’m not dying to find another bottle even though I hear this beer is pretty hard to find.