Dogfish Head Festina Peche

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

12 oz bottle. Straw yellow with a hint of orange. Peach and orange aroma with a light sour hint and touch of wheat. Lightly sour and tart flavor with various light fruit (peach, cherry, orange). The grain/wheat is secondary to the other flavors. Tart semi-dry body. This is a great quenching brew. Hope they make it every year.

12 oz. pours a hazey yellow with little head. aroma is sweet and tart with hints of citrus. mouthful is fizzy and tart. very refreshing and puckering in a pleasant way. such a twist on a wheat summer brew.

12 oz bottle thanks to Secret Santa. Pale apricot color with aromas of tart peaches. Sour and sweet aromas led to a flavor that was actually more sudued than I had expected it to be. It was very tart peach without being overly so. I really liked it.

Several bottles and on draught through a fresh peach filled randall at BCTC ’07. The randallized version was awesome. Poured a murky yellowish straw with a little, sudsy white lace. Nose is tart peaches, wheat, lemon juice. Flavor is similar to aroma and the peaches are much more present in the radallized version as opposed to the regular version. A refreshing beer and a very nice to see from dfh. I wish they would just brew the Festina Lente again.

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..

Another adored bottle of Dogfish Head has come into my posession, and I am once again thrilled with what they’ve made. This time it was the lighter, more jovial Festina Peche, a so called "Malt Beverage" with "Peach Concentrate." I like malt beverages, and I like peach concentrate, so there’s no reason why this can’t be a splendid drink - and it is. To my eyes the Festina Peche looks a lot like a wit bier, with a heavy cloudiness and a light yellow and gold color, though this drink may be a hair darker than your typical wit. The fresh scent of peach flesh builds the base of the aroma, which is light, bright and refreshing. Lemon, pepper and a pinch of alcohol mix with a light strawberry aroma and an orange dryness to compose a tantalizingly delicious but ephemeral aroma. The flavor is twin to the aroma, but adds a layer of tangerine and citrus tanginess, along with an extra spoonful of passion fruit sweetness (in lieu of some of the aroma’s peachiness.) The tanginess is superb, and cooperates swimmingly with the other flavor elements. Nicely balanced sweetness, like, quenching, delightfully tangy and overall delicious, the Festina Peche is a remarkable beer and apt for the Spring months.

12 oz. bottle. Hazy yellow pour producing a substatnial white head that endures tolerably well. Teh peach aroma is there, but subdued, and there is a nice sour citrusy characterthat seems more evident. Lively carbonation and a light body with a clean palate come together for a very refreshing quality. Sour and acidic with only the faintest touch of sweetness and a bit of bitterness at the finish add to the refreshing nature. This is a really nice beer for hot weather.

A difficult beer to rate, as the recipe apparently changed from 2007 to 2008, and the character of the beer is now much different. This year’s offering has no head but alot of prickly carbonation. Strange flavor of peaches gushing somewhere beneath the surface, but it’s so overwhelmed by the massive tartness and acidity that it’s hard to appreciate. Last year’s version felt more well-rounded, with a good dose of sourness but not quite as sickly a one as this. It’s not all that enjoyable right now, though still interesting, but I have to give props to this beer based on last year’s bottlings, which were fantastic. Edit - The 2009 version is the bomb.