Dogfish Head Festina Peche

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

This cloudy yellow beer poured with a fluffy white head and yeasty peach aroma. The flavor is sour lemon and wheat. It’s refreshing but not especially tasty.

POurs a cloudy yellow with a medium white head. Smells of citrus, peach, and wheat. Fresh smelling. The taste is slightly sour, not really a sharp acidic sour, but more tart. Had a lot of wheat characters in it, the peach really stood out as well. Kind of fruity. Very interesting beer, dont think I’ve had anything quite like it. I can see why some people dont like it, but i thought it was interesting and pretty good.

Yellow color with a well developing, but then quickly diminishing foam. Nose shows some light malts, some funky character and lemon and peach aromas. Flavor is well balanced between the sourness and peach character. Goes down easy. I could see myself craving this once in awhile.

12 oz. bottle. Maybe now I get what 3Floyds Peach Ball was aiming for. This has a light peach and malt liquor nose. Pours pale yellow, with a fizzy head that quickly flares out. Definitely a very tart peach flavor with some sour weiss character. Kind of zesty once you get into it. I splashed a bit a maraschino syrup into the last of it and found that gives it quite a nice kick, like a Berliner ought to.

12 Oz Bottle. Poured into a Berliner Weisse Bowl. Aroma is a prickly tang of Indian coconut yogurt and fresh ceviche. A little subdued but with light twists of lime and cranberry. Pours a percolating broad bubbled clouded lemon yellow. Rocky head of sparse white. Flavor comes across as a fresh, popping lactic tang on wheat, with a delightful switch in the apricot nectar quality of the fruit. That rides out the backend for a nice ride. It could use much more acidity, body and umph. But the refreshing dry sparkling quality makes it dangerously quaffable. Somehow, edges of corner DMS and corn reek in a nip, drawing it down a touch. Finishes out on nectarine stones.

I thought this was a peach fruit beer when I first poured it. Imagine my suprise after the first sip! On looking it up I am pleased to see I have just tried my first Berliner Weisse! Faint sour aroma. Pour was a cloudy murky dark yellow with no head. Taste was phenomenal. Sour and tart with hints of wheat and good carbonation. I tasted no peaches which is great because I hate them. I will buy a lot more of these to give to non craft beer drinkers to show how crazy and different beer can be. Awesome!

Big thanks to jjpm74 for the bottle. Looks good, the beer in the glass is very normal. Foam disappears very fast. Sourish and dry aroma. Starts very dry, modest fruity. The finish is very sourish. Reminds me of gose - really not bad!

12 oz. Cloudy pear-golden with a small head that immediately fizzles away. Aroma of sourish yeast, citrus oil and light peach. Flavor is lemon juice with a hint of peach. Light body is astringent and mouth-puckering. About as complex as lemon juice with a slice of peach. Recommended pairing: This beer and Drano should work wonders on that nasty clog.