Dogfish Head Festina Peche

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

Bottle courtesy of MDS- Thanks Mike! Decants hazy, cloudy yellow with a generous frothy white cap, with good sediment at the bottom of the glass.The aroma is heavily yeasty with sour lemons/limes and grapefruit and a barnyard/wet blanket sort of profile and a smidgen of apricot. The taste is full on tart yeasty peaches with white grapes, hay and a sour funk. Finishes astringent, puckering , bitter and tart, creamy yet dry. Low in alcohol and as a result, I could drink a lot of this. Excellent. Thanks Mike!

Two bottles in trade; one in the I’m Not Worthy pack from willblake and the other from generous jasonmech77. I was on the lookout for saccharine, for unnatural fruit, but I didn’t get it. Instead I got a highly drinkable peach beer with genuine lactic components, insanely refreshing, light but with enough body to keep your mouth interested. Aroma of peaches, tart wet hay. A good beer for sure. First DFH beer I have liked in probably 2 years!

Pours a pale straw color with thin white fizzy head that fades quickly. Looks a lot like champagne. Aroma is bit pungent with an almost acidic smell. Also has some faint peach, light white grape. Taste is tart which peach, light berry, citrus and along with a toasted malt backbone in the finish. The palate is lightly dry and acrid but ends up finish clean as it finishes. Pretty enjoyable for a stle I don’t have a lot of experience with.

This is one I’ve been looking forward to since I first heard of it. For lack of a better word, it’s peach colored with a decent white head that disappears rather quick. Sourdough aroma with lots of lemon peel. For me, the taste is dominated but sour bread and lemon notes with the peach just a whisper in the aftertaste. As expected, this lower alcohol offering is all about being subtle and I think it works really well. The lively but not overzealous carbonation works perfectly to aid in the thirst quenching quality that this brew has in spades. Very good work.

Bottled. Poured cloudy yellow, with a fine, bright white head. Not much of a nose, perhaps a little bit of yeast. Flavor was very tart, reminiscent of a Flemish Sour Ale. Peach flavor was subtle, not overwhelming. Finish was acidic, fizzy, tart.

Cloudy pour from the Blind Tiger. Slightly tart aroma leads into a partly puckering and superbly quaffable brew. The touch of peach in the flavor really highlights the raw wheatiness and lactic acid present in this beer. Super tasty, well done.

Bottle sent by DrBayern - I had been wanting to try this for a long time and finally acquired one through trade. Poured this into the closest glass I had to a "bowl" style glass. Looked a hazy yellowish with no head. Kind of Hoegaarden-esque. Smell was very underwhelming with some very faint perhaps peachy smells that I wouldn’t have picked up if I didn’t know what it was, along with an almost skunky yeast smell. Very unique to me as it was also my 1st of the style. Taste was dry very bland peachy flavor up front, followed by a noticeable tartness in the mouth and then a definite wheaty finish to it. Very different, and although drinkable, not the easiest beer to enjoy. Perhaps just the style, but this lacked almost any sweetness at all and as a result almost none of the flavors were brought out very well. Extremely mild and tart. Rerate - Much more flavorful, and the fruitiness shined, and the tartness was very thirst quenching. Really enjoying this style now, and I liked the dry fruity complementing flavor to this style. Would like to have again.

12 oz bottle courtesy of Schroppfy. Pours a cloudy unfiltered yellow color with a medium white head that quickly dissipates. The aroma is light with faint peaches and limes. The flavor is sour forward with lemons, grass, and sour grapes. The mouthfeel is light and malty without being thin and watery; carbonation is lively and prickly. The finish is long with lingering sour grapes. Overall: I really loved this beer, this is a great summer beer. I have really been getting into sours lately so this really hit the spot.