R.J. Rockers Son of a Peach Wheat Ale

Brewed by R.J. Rockers Brewing Co.
Style: Fruit Beer
Spartanburg, South Carolina USA

12oz bottle. Thick, murky orange with a minimal soapy head. Some floaties. Deep peach pie aroma. Pronounced peach juice taste, not that tart..more thick, sweet, and creamy. Really captures the essence of peaches and cream. Light tangy peach-apricot in the aftertaste. Refreshing and quite unique. Some serious peach yogurt nuances.

Pours an orange color with a medium sized white head. Aroma is peaches, wheat, bubblegum. Flavor is malt, wheat, candy peaches. Relatively refreshing, but nothing to call home about here. If you like peaches, you’ll probably enjoy it enough.

Location: 12 oz bottle from Gilly’s, 5/29/09
Is this a newer one? Only 11 raters before me, and I got it in MD...

Aroma: Dominated by peach, a little wheat, sugary, more like a peach candy or peach gum then actual peach...
Appearance: Cloudy yellow gold, nice inch or 2 of fluffy white head
Flavor: Peach is still dominant, but more subtle then in the nose, nice sweet wheat beer flavor, I found it to be surprisingly good
Palate: Super easy to drink, certainly feel more like 4% beer then a 5.8% beer, fizzy too
Overall Impression: Look, its super fruity and light, but that was the point! If you don’t want a fruit beer you picked up the wrong bottle, but hey, you should’ve figured that out from the label. It’s not an Impy Stout there fella...I’m not a big fruit beer guy by any means, I rarely like them, and find most to be too sweet. After the nose, I thought this one was going to be too sweet for me too, but then I drank it, and found out they did a good job with this one, I really did enjoy it, and I ain’t gonna apologize for that!

**Just submitted a photo for this one, as it was missing one.

Peaches and cream aroma. Murky golden, headless. It looks almost gelatinous in the glass. The sweet aroma is contrasted by the reality of the substantially drier flavor of stale malt and perfume. I call shenanigans! This seems nothing more than subpar beer with artificial peach flavoring. Maybe I was expecting something sweet or tart and didn’t get it, but I found this profundly disappointing. I’m not sure I wouldn’t just have a Budweiser.

Pours a dirty dishwater iced tea tan-orange with a small off-white head that collapses quickly to a thin skin; lots or suspended particles. The nose is a subtle blend of peaches and soft wheat; it opens up nicely as it warms a bit. Light-bodied and softly wheaty with a slightly tart finish. The flavor follows the nose with additional notes of flowers and light peach pit. This is a pretty interesting fruit beer. I prefer it a bit more than the one other (O’Fallon) peach wheat beer that I’ve tried.

Pours a dark hazy golden with little head. Aroma is peach. Flavor is peach, spices, a little bread, and a mildly tart finish.

(Sample Date: 8/22/2009 Source:Other) Peach (maybe a bit artificial) sugary aroma. Cloudy golden with fine off white head. Peach and pear fruitiness with enough bitterness to balance. Light body and mouth feel. Medium finish.

On draught at the High Country Beer Fest, it pours a hazy orange, with a nice foam cap that leaves spotty lace. Pure peach bouquet. The flavors are superbly integrated for peach pulp and juice, intermingling with some bready notes, wheat, and a slightly acidic sweet and sour finish. The mouthfeel is light and refreshing, and cuts through the heat perfectly in summer. As a general rule, most fruit beers get a bad rap as overprocessed, sometimes cloying, odd experimentations. I can say with all assurance that this offering is not any of those, and honestly tastes like a true, natural peach-infused ale. Nothing artificial about this brew here. Kudos to RJ Rockers.