Dogfish Head Festina Peche

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

Pale champagne color with lotsa bubbles and a quickly fading white head. Aroma is sour and somewhat crackery, but altogether too subtle. Wooh! Taste is same, and none too subtle! Very sour, bordering on lemony, with peach and yeasty salty biscuitness. Lively and interesting, but it will be a while before I want another. $3/12oz

bottle poured a cloudy wheat in color with minimal carbination and little foam. smell is dry champagne yeast, wheat, alcohol, and some light fruit. taste is bitter on the tongue, dry, has some light fruit sweetness, and is along the lines of a sparkling pinot grigio. this is an interesting one to try, quite different from the dogfish beer that they typically brew.

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.

This is not a bad beer- unlike most DFH brews I’ve sampled in the past year. Bottle pours straw colored w/ a huge sour peach bite. Almost reminescent of a brett addition. Much like a peach lambic w/ a maltier background. Nice, drinkable, lawnmower beer.

Bottle. Tart fruity aroma. Hazy yellow body, small white head. Flavor is tart, a touch of fruit, although peaches are hardly evident. Very different and refreshing.

OK so, until I read what a "Berliner Weisse" was, I really thought this was not very good. However, it seems to fit the description very well, despite the fact that it is too sour for me. Still can’t give it top marks, but I guess DFH knows what they are doing.

Pours similar to a witbier in color and head. Definite peach noticable in the aroma, along with a somewhat artificial scent, similar to crayon wax. Somewhat easy drinking. Tart, yet not over the top sour. Sour apple, lemon, sprizy. I think my wife would like this. Not bad for what it is. Not as impressive as the Fitgers offering, which was my only other rating within this style.

Tap at Pap. The beginners sour ale I reckon. Color and aroma are anemic though not unappealing. Flavor of peach is slight and tart like Erics Sour Ale. Not quite refreshing, but certainly not cloying or syrupy. Skol!