Lindemans Pêche Lambic (Pêcheresse)

Brewed by Brouwerij Lindemans
Style: Lambic - Fruit
St Pieters Leeuw-Vlezenbeek, Belgium

pours hazy golden with a medium white head. Fruity nose. Initially sweet and peachy. Champagne, apple, sugar. Following is a slight bitterness and dryness. Sweet at first but balances out nicely. Good Lambic.

25 cL bottle. Pours slight hazy orange with a lacing off-white head. Apple nose, slight peach fruity and a classic lambic note too. Sweet, citric into a mellow peach sweet finish. Has faint notes of wood along the way. Overall an extremely sweet beer.

12 oz Bottle Poured into a flute with a hazy gold colour with a small white head. Aroma of peach, wheat, sweet malts and yeast. Initial taste is sweet, ripe peach, apple and slight hint of champaign. Finishing palate is tart, wheat and peachy but fades quicker than expected. Some lacing of the glass and some head retention.

Bottle. Pours hazy apricot, off white head. Aroma is peach, vanilla butter frosting. Flavor is the same with slight funkiness. I’m not too impressed. I guess this is something light to drink when you’ve had one too many martinis but still want an alcoholic drink without risking table dancing or getting sick.

Name: Peche
Date: 07/11/1996

cloudy light amber, thin head, pleasant peach aroma good peach flavor, sweet peach finish

Aroma: 9/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Score: **4
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Pours a hazy orange with pink hues, not that far from peach juice. A small head has modest retention and leaves insignifigant lacing. The aroma is obviously purposely sweet, inundated with wheat malt, candy sugar, peach juice(realistic), acids, flowers and yeast. The flavor is cloying, too much so for the plentiful wheat to seem refreshing. Acidity is medium, bitterness low, acidity medium-high and sharp. The finish is off-dry and wheaty, light sweet peach fading slowly. The palate is softly though adequately carbonated, light-medium bodied and very sticky from loads of sugars. Average.

Pours a sparkling gold with a white frothy head. Aroma of sweet peach and apple. Medium-bodied, effervescent and relatively dry for such a sweet beer. This beer tastes much like a sweet champagne punch. Tart, sweet and crisp with dry peach and apple notes. Ironically, I found the apple note just as pronounced as the peach, if not more so. Perhaps I sampled an "off" bottle, but I didn’t get the bold peach nectar flavors that others describe in their ratings.

Draft, pours amber, taste is sweet but not overly so. Wow, a delicious peche, well balanced, great on a summer day, just a fantastic example. all around.