Dogfish Head Festina Peche

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

In the bottle from Inari Wines. Pours a cloudy light gold with a thick fluffy white head of awesome retention. This looks way better than many Wits. Has a mild peach aroma, but mostly a yeasty doughy scent with a splash of lemon citrus. WOW, this is very tart! Has a long acidity on the tongue. A very seltzer-like palate. So acidic, it seems to be concentrated lemons. I can see why they use the term "neo-Berliner weisse." There’s not much peach flavor to this. It tastes similar to an apricot home brew that I once made with a huge amount of fruit and very little malt. I get a faint sensation of oakiness toward the bitter end.

Bottle. Slightly musty/dry wheat malt aroma - hint of peach. Cloudy pale yellow with no head. Dry vinous wheat malt flavor with mild peach flavor - a slight hint of sweetness in the finish. Not quite as sour as Schultheiss or Berliner Kindl but extremely well made and authentic - really no sweetness at all.

Bottled, at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Deep golden with some hazy. Slightly tart citric notes in the aoma with with notes of yeast and peach juice. Light-bodied with acidic lemony notes, wheat and peach syrup. Crsip and tart finish of lemon and yeast.

A good beer, from the always dependable Dogfish Head. I have respect for any brewer who even attempts this very uncommon style. Cloudy, lambic like appearance. Aroma has light wheat and peach. Flavor is lightly sour with just a hint of fruit. Its a close call between being a Berlinner and a sour wheat beer. Enjoyable and refreshing either way.

Bottle from Liquor Max. Shared with ilovedarkbeer. Pours with a hazy yellow body with a frothy white head. Aroma is of wheat, tartness, and very faint peach. Taste is tart and a bit lactic with light, sweet peach. Lively carbonation. Not bad.

Bottle. Pale straw color with a white head. Light peach, light cereal. Nice tart/peach, light wheat flavor. Medium bodied. Tart peaches linger with a bit of ceral and wheat.

The aroma is sour and fruity. Cloudy yellow pour with almost no head. Good flavor of tart, green apples, it’s fruity and refreshing, almost puckering.

This beer is a hazed pale yellow color with a thin white head that dissapears almost immediately, leaving a rather sad, lemonade-ish drink. Minimal lacing. The aroma is mostly peachy with touches of citrus and musty malt. Lightm fruity body with tart peach and wheat flavors. Very little sweetness which would help a lot here. The finish is fruity and short, leaving a sour fruit aftertaste for a moment. Nothing worth revisiting here.