Dogfish Head Festina Peche

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Berliner Weisse
Milton, Delaware USA

12oz bottle. Pours a cloudy, pale yellow body with no head or lacing. Lots of rising carbonation. Aroma is malty and cidery. Some honey, wheat, and semi-tart peaches and lemons. Flavor is a little better. Starts light and malty with a honey taste before moving into a fruity, somewhat sour, acidic finish. Mostly citrus and peach. Leaves a smooth honey flavor in the aftertaste with some light tart fruits. Light to medium bodied and refreshing. A touch of spritzy carbonation on the back of the tongue. Overall, a fairly well balanced beer, but rather lame. Not really my thing.

Bottle. Poured a thin honey orange with a quickly dissipating head. Very bitter and sour nose. Sour mouthfeel which gave this one more of a oude gueze character to it, and not so much of a weisse character. Decent, but overly sour.

Pours yellow orange with a small white head. Notes of peaches and a fair amount of tartness. I don’t know if it was the peaches or what, but something about this seemed a but forced or artificial. Didn’t have the subtle nuances of some recent berliner weises I’ve had - NG unplugged, telegraph reserve sour wheat. had it at winking lizard and it came with a dofish glass. was with pampdogg and mr. pamp.

note: According to Nick selm, who has a swollen booty hole, this is up there with “Monk’s Café Flemish Sour Red Ale” as the worst beer of all time.

Had at the Coops, while crabbing it up .. .. wow! summer in a bottle, even MsCoop likes it . .. Tart/lemon sharp peach flavours .. extremely clean, like an eraser ... . so much fun to drink, made me jump in the air! .. .Parmaganoooo!!! .. .. good bisque! .. ..3/26/09 ..last beer of the session..reminds me of kemah..

2007 Bottle - Pours drab murky yellow with a small white head...aroma is tart, somewhat fruity, grain, yeast...flavour is citric initially, easing into sour peach and unfiltered grainy grit, finish is lemony and ascorbic...meh...

I liked this. Poured hazy yellow with a thick fizzy white head. Aroma of peaches. Tart peach flavor. Some lemon but more peach. Refreshing.

Hmmm. Not really good honestly. It does have a nice peach taste, but its not really something that is enjoyable. Hardly even a beer really, and not a good weisse. Worth a try, but not worth the price.

Split this between a friend while fishing. Had to try it because ive never had a Berliner Weisse before, i thoroughly enjoyed it. Nice tart funkness in the nose and every sip. Not a whole lot of peach really, but it was there, and balanced the sourness nicely. A good grab for a summer brew that refreshes well, while keeping a good taste at the same time.