Upland Peach Lambic

Brewed by Upland Brewing Company
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Bloomington, Indiana USA

Hazy yellow with tiny white short lasting head. Sourish aroma with notes of peach and wood. Sourish flavour with barnyard, peach and brett notes. Sourish finish.

Bottle shared by puzzl. Pours a hazy honey color with a wispy fading white head. The aroma is pretty nice- the funk is developed with some tartness, aceto, brettanomyces, leather and only a very subdued damp oak note. The peach is in the background playing only a small role. The body is not carbonated enough yet, and the flavor does not have enough funk-a touch of sharp wild fermentation. Mild peach tartness and sweetness without being too sweet, but it has not developed enough funk either. Needs some time for the yeast to act up.

Thanks to Puzzl for sharing. Pours a mostly clear in the first pours- mine turned out a slight haze- and Andys last pour looked like puke. haha. No head due to a very slight carbonation that I think will build with time in aging. I got a lot of really fresh peach aroma, peach puree, chutney, and even some fresh crazy peach mango salsa stuff my mom buys, with a nice acidity in the nose. Ok fresh peach flavor, a bit sweet still, body is also big and not ready yet, some doughy yeastiness, almost a bit gritty, with some ok good acidity but still on the slight side. This might be really good in another year or 2. Best to sit on and age. Too young right now.

Bottled from Sprinkle. Nice aroma, a clean tart, maple syrup and fruit and peach. Good tartness. The flavor is quite disappointing after the aroma, almost no sour, and a very thin body. Almost no carbonation. If you take huge sips you get some buttery funk, perhaps, but thats about it. A touch of peach in the flavor. This one is disappointing. Needs to sour up a LOT more, and needs more carbonation.

750ml bottle. Careful pour yields mostly clear kool-aid orange colored body with a small white head that dies quickly. First smell and first taste remind me of real fruit peach yogurt - mostly sweet, but natural, peaches, along with a creamed lactic note. Mildly prickly up front, peppery, but not at all that tart or sour. Filmy and flimsy texture, oily at times. Still a fine beer, but Im afraid they fell short with respect to authenticity.

Hazy brownish yellow with a loose thin white head. Subtle sour wheaty with very small peach. Low carbonation, a little more substance than is usual for the style. Very subtle peachy, less subtle, though still very subdued lambic tartness. A bit herbal, of all things. Small alcohol. Lingering wheat. Really full, almost creamy for the style. I know this isn’t a traditional lambic in any way, it is still delightful and interesting. I’m surprised by the low rating, and I’m not even a big fan of peach!

750 into snifter (thanks to Roger of Rich O’s for being the man!). Murky pour with bizarre pastel color. Though the other didn’t like it (or the other upland lambics) very much, I though this was highly drinkable and very comfortably palatable, even for people new to lambics. However, it lacks the traditional feel of a true lambic.

Bottle at Rich O’s: poured hazy orange with no head. Little peach aroma, almost nonexistent. Very very light funk. Flavor is sour but finishes watery with no real peach flavor to speak of. Why this is highly rated I have no clue. It has potential but Upland needs to go back to the drawing board and start this over. The worst of the 3 Upland lambics I had.