Dogfish Head Festina Peche

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

Bottled. Cloudy golden-yellow colour with a huge, foamy white head and spotty lacing. Aroma of peaches and white wine. Tart, sour peaches with a champagne-like finish. Interesting and rather enjoyable.

Pale yellow-roseish color with a very quickly expiring head... Faint aroma of peaches, possibly a bit of apple as well... Flavor of tart peaches comes through before a quite carbonated finish... This was by far my favorite beer of this past summer... I love sour ales, and for me there is nothing better than a light refreshing tart ale in the summer time... This fits the bill to a T...(also, of my friends, i was the only one who like this beer, which, for my money, makes this beer even more appealing to me)

Pours a fully clouded straw. Nose is mild with a slight metallic tone to it with a slight bit of wheat yeasty funk. The flavor is where it’s at here. Tart rules the day with an obvious peach influence with what seems like a fair amount of lemony goodness mixed in. Tart and smooth. Gives a very balanced flavor ride. Feel is a bit thin on the liquid with a nice biting carbonation. Overall extremely drinkable. It’s a damn shame I bought a four pack of this. Geez. What ever will I do with it.

12 oz bottle from radiomgb. Hazy piss yellow with a small, bright white, rapidly disappearing head. Smells like a white wine spritzer. Mouth-puckeringly tart. Lots of wheat, but I don’t get a lot of peach taste - makes me curious to try a straight berliner weisse. (The peach flavour increases as the beer warms). Sweet-sour finish. Very dry, and quite heavily carbonated. Very refreshing and drinkable. Thanks again, Jeff.

12 oz bottle from Discount Liquors, Milwaukee. I forgot the was a berliner weisse until I tried it and thought, this is a lot like Berliner Weisse. .... Pours a yellow protein infused white haze with a wispy white head. (typical of the style, so i’ll give it a 3 instead of a 2) Light tart aroma. Lots of old grain with lemon and peaches. That old grain though, is unappealing. Watery flavors. Carbonated peach water really. Has a little bit of a fake flavor to it, like equal or nutrasweet. But the more I drink it, its not just carbonated peach water. Slight tartness and a wheat/grain notes make it pretty interesting. Although I’ve rated most Berliner Weisse’s pretty low b/c most of their parts (wheat, grain, often funky/dirty) aren’t great (not to mention they are not pretty). But overall there is something extremely refreshing, tart, funky, and interesting that a really like in a sessionable beer.

On tap at my house... I thought I rated this one a while back, but I guess not. Pours pale gold in color with a lively white head. Highly carbonated. Aroma is of tart peaches with a hint of yeast. Taste tart with peaches, lemon citrus, and an underlying yeastiness. My best Festina Peche was served though a Randall with peaches and apples(I think) at Belgium comes to Cooperstown Festival. Vey nice Berliner Weisse.

Light yelow in color the beer poured a thick head of fine bubbles that dissipated leaving some light lacing. The nose showed off peach/apricot, lemon peel and a touch of spice. In the mouth it was tart and showed off underripe peach and lemon. This is a fermented drink but does not taste like "beer".

Bottle. Pours a hazy straw color with a medium sized rocky white head. Aroma is tart peaches, lemon zest, apples. Flavor is light grains, peach, lemon zest, orange. Palate is light bodies, medium carbonation, finishes tart and very refreshing. This is not too bad.