St. Louis Premium Peche

Pours clear bronze with a large rocky head. The aroma has stale overripe peaches, musty malt, canned fruit syrup and absolutely none of the tartness that I love in a lambic. Medium body that is a bit slick and sticky with moderate carbonation. The flavor begins with canned peaches with extra syrup and spice. The finish is peppery and sweet. This is okay and pretty enjoyable for a fruit beer, but far from what I look for in a lambic.

August 2005 Cork Date; Sampled June 2008
As I pour this a floral note of peaches mixes with a lactic tart aroma. A reasonable pour produces an almost two-finger thick, light tan colored head that sits on top of a clear, amber colored beer that shows a brilliantly clear, full copper color when held up to the light. A fuller inspection of the nose yields more lactic sourness, more than I was expecting from this beer. Floral peach notes are here as well, but they actually play less of a role than the tartness; a peach flesh floral note becomes a bit more noticeable as I get used to the tartness. This really is quite floral smelling.

Quite sweet tasting, more than I was expecting given the tart leaning aroma. There is some tartness here, but the sweetness does a good job of drowning it out at first, luckily it is substantial enough that it cant be repressed and it does help to balance the ample sweetness. While this is sweet and fruity tasting, in fact amply so, this does not scream peach; this makes sense as I have found that peach is more floral than being a distinctive flavor in and of itself. This has a fairly viscous body and heft to it. Thicker than your typical soda, but probably at least as sweet as one. There is a prickly carbonation here as well that probably helps to lighten this beer just a touch.

Not really beer, even the noticed tartness doesn’t make this seem any more like a Lambic.

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Pour is attractive dark peach color with minimal white head. The nose is tart of what seems to be be cherries, but the flavor is all peach. Quite sweet, even for my sweet tooth. Nothing complex or unique, just peach. The carbonation and sweetness make it refreshing, but don’t drink too much at one sitting, your teeth might dissolve.

Golden yellow with medium white head. Aroma of light peaches. Taste of peaches, sweet malt. Mostly fruity and mildly sour. Decent but not great.

250ml bottle (Travellers, Tallinn)
Deep orangy amber, no head. Peachy and vanilla ice cream aroma. Soft and sharp body - sweet stickiness, but also a lambic which sent a real shiver down my spine. Fruity and slightly soft sweetness, and a light malty backdrop. Too sweet to excel, but a very good sweetened lambic.