Harpoon Peche

Rating: 2

Harpoon Brewery

Boston, MA

Style: Peche

ABV: 5%

22 oz bottle

100 BBL Series Session 19

Poured with a huge head, and it smelled unbelievably like an actual fresh peach...really. Smells like a peach, tastes like a peach, and leaves you with an aftertaste that makes you think you just ate a peach, not drank a beer.

Compared to some fruit type beers that are cloyingly sweet this is a pleasant surprise. There is a definite tartness in the taste, but not enough that I would have called it a peach lambic.

I might suggest dialing back the peach just a tad, so you actually know you're drinking beer, but overall I think this is a great attempt at brewing something different. Refreshing in an American beer market that sees way too many overpriced high alcohol hop monsters. This baby only cost me $5!