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St. Louis Pêche
Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck N.V.
- From:
- Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck N.V.
- Belgium
- Style:
- Fruit Lambic
- ABV:
- 3.5%
- Score:
- 80
- Avg:
- 3.51 | pDev: 15.38%
- Reviews:
- 53
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 15, 2018
- Added:
- Jul 03, 2003
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 3
No description / notes.
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Ratings by kiki3drt292:
Rated by kiki3drt292 from California
3.37/5 rDev -4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Mar 11, 2015
3.37/5 rDev -4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Mar 11, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by 4DAloveofSTOUT from Illinois
3.2/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.2/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
This beer is brown and dark in color. Not much head. Smells like apple cider vinegar and a slight hint of peach. The flavor is loaded with peaches. No sourness. Sweet peaches. No apple cider vinegar flavor even though that is all you smell in the nose. Thin and not very carbonated. A little bit goes a long way.
Jan 31, 2016Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.48/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.48/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
250ml bottle, another day, another flavour from this prolific Belgian brewer.
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with one skinny-ass finger of weakly puffy, and mostly just bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of spectral coral reef lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of musty, kind of yeasty peach cobbler, more free-range light and dark sugars, some other sort of muddled orchard fruitiness (cherry, I suppose), and a twinge of earthy drying bitterness. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy caramel malt, a mixed peach/apricot/cherry sugary fruit joint, a softly sour yeast/bacteria collaboration, and more understated leafy, earthy hop bitters.
The carbonation is adequate in its tamped-down frothiness, the body a sturdy, saccharine middleweight, and smooth, sure, but with too much interference from nasties and hop alike to be all that proud about it. It finishes still sweet, but increasingly afflicted by said yeast, bacteria, and off-seeming fruit esters.
Lambic? Wait, whut? Yeah, if this is a (fruit) lambic, then it is among the most disjointed, fettered versions that I have yet come across. The peach isn't all that bad, but recedes a little too readily into the shadows, as it were, and lets the other less agreeable characters have the run of the house. Nope.
Oct 15, 2015This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with one skinny-ass finger of weakly puffy, and mostly just bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of spectral coral reef lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of musty, kind of yeasty peach cobbler, more free-range light and dark sugars, some other sort of muddled orchard fruitiness (cherry, I suppose), and a twinge of earthy drying bitterness. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy caramel malt, a mixed peach/apricot/cherry sugary fruit joint, a softly sour yeast/bacteria collaboration, and more understated leafy, earthy hop bitters.
The carbonation is adequate in its tamped-down frothiness, the body a sturdy, saccharine middleweight, and smooth, sure, but with too much interference from nasties and hop alike to be all that proud about it. It finishes still sweet, but increasingly afflicted by said yeast, bacteria, and off-seeming fruit esters.
Lambic? Wait, whut? Yeah, if this is a (fruit) lambic, then it is among the most disjointed, fettered versions that I have yet come across. The peach isn't all that bad, but recedes a little too readily into the shadows, as it were, and lets the other less agreeable characters have the run of the house. Nope.
Reviewed by Premo88 from Texas
3.5/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.5/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
10 oz. on tap at Hay Merchant, Houston
(Aug. 31, 2015)
L: clear copper, brilliant, creamy head of white/off-white foam that won't dissipate; slight lacing, keeps a nice collar
S: cherries and peaches, just a hint of tartness but mostly sweet
T: sugar ... super sweet, like cherry syrup, slight toasted malt that turns into a bit of peach pie flavor; over time the palate tries to adjust to the extreme sweetness, but it's still super sweet
F: soft, light, watery ... not much carbonation
O: way too sweet ... the flavors are nice, but it's almost like drinking out of a bag of sugar; in fairness to this beer, I might have tainted my experience by not drinking this first to lead off a session.
Sep 05, 2015(Aug. 31, 2015)
L: clear copper, brilliant, creamy head of white/off-white foam that won't dissipate; slight lacing, keeps a nice collar
S: cherries and peaches, just a hint of tartness but mostly sweet
T: sugar ... super sweet, like cherry syrup, slight toasted malt that turns into a bit of peach pie flavor; over time the palate tries to adjust to the extreme sweetness, but it's still super sweet
F: soft, light, watery ... not much carbonation
O: way too sweet ... the flavors are nice, but it's almost like drinking out of a bag of sugar; in fairness to this beer, I might have tainted my experience by not drinking this first to lead off a session.
Reviewed by alexanderplatz from Kentucky
3.88/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev +10.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
I found this to be light and refreshing. Sweet -- reminded me somewhat of hard cider or lemonade. Quaffable. Never had a peach beer or lambic before. Liked it a lot. A great summer drink.
Jul 16, 2015
St. Louis Pêche from Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck N.V.
Beer rating:
80 out of
100 with
93 ratings
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