Autre Chose - Peach IPA
Unibroue

This self described peach IPA from Unibroue called to me from the shelf. Autre Chose pours an amber with a mostly white head. The nose has hints of peach sweetness but it's not strong. The flavor mirrors the nose, the peach is present, but it's muted with a dank/hoppy note as it carries through the mouthfeel. The mouthfeel is sticky, but not horribly so.

 

Clear gold with s substantial and long lived head, plenty of lace. Hops and fruit noticeable in the aroma. Very hop forward, at the edge of aggressive. Noticeable preach in the finish.

 

Pours a medium gold colour with a really nice thick creamy head sitting atop. The smell is hoppy bitter and very peachy at the same time. Different. I can taste the Belgian characteristics no doubt but also the peach and neither one is overwhelming. The more I sip, the more I enjoy this. I wish it was easier to get my hands on.
Aug 3 2020

Pours a hazy golden with a good head and nice rocky foam. The aroma is great. The high-hops of the IPA mixed with the heavy notes of peach is frankly spectacular. The taste doesn't hold up, though, I'm afraid. You get the peach notes up front and that fades into the hop-biterness and it leaves a fruity-bitterness aftertaste reminiscent of grapefruit. It's not an easy drink, but a good experience, for sure.

Bought a 473 ml can for 2,99$

Look: Hazy golden yellow colour, with a white lace around the glass,

Smells: Peach/ Vanilla/Apricot/Cookie Creme/ Citrus/ Orang. Amazing smell. I wish they could make a Febreze or a Air Wick of that smell !

Taste: Almost same as the smell. Medium body and medium carbonation.

Feel: It finish dry, more than a regular IPA I found. Which is a shame, because it is a fruity IPA so I though i will cut the hop and dry more.

Overall: I will recommend that beer. The smell is the strong point for this beer. The feel is not quite there because as a fruity beer I expected the finish to be a bit more smooth than very dry. But overall it's a well made beer. Good job Unibroue

 

473ml can - the name sounds like the French version a creepy Netflix show. Or maybe HBO. I dunno anymore.

This beer pours a somewhat murky, medium golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some stellar tiered cirrus cloud form pattern lace around the glass as it lazily seeps out of sight.

It smells of peach/apricot compote, bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of indistinct earthy sweetness, and some faint weedy, leafy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, peach pits, some damp minerality, vanilla cookies, and more understated earthy, musty, and oily piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with the frooty esters doing more for the local good than any hoppy interlopers at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the pulled-apart peach aspects predominating.

Overall - more of a fruit ale than an IPA, especially of the Belgian ilk, as the peach, as previously mentioned, makes itself rather well-known. It's like they just took their Éphémère version, and tried to 'hop it up', but lost a lot on both sides of the equation. At any rate, more or less refreshing, once easily-obtained cognitive dissonance sets in. Yeah, or that 'other thing'.

L: Good pour. A golden, apple juice look with a thick soapy white head. Extremely evident lace.

S: Really though this was a strong aromatic beer. A little vanilla, a lot of straw sweetness, and a nice scent of ripe peach. The vanilla was a really nice surprise.

T: To be fair, my first reaction was "Wow", then as the vanilla and tart peach relaxed I found myself more tasting a bitter straw without a flowery IPA flavor as advertised. Considering the initial flavors were actually quite enjoyable, it's hard to rate it poorly. However I just didn't like the lasting flavor

F: Good crisp IPA that sits well on the tongue and back of the throat. Probably would be hard pressed to have more than one, but it's a good feel.

O: I'm conflicted on this beer, there's a lot I like but there is also a lot of basic to it. I think the peach and vanilla mixture is superb, and I just hoped for a slightly different finish and feel. I didn't find myself wanting to instantly get another one. I really enjoyed the flavor and craftsmanship, but the overall pull of everything just simply didn't come together being an IPA. If it was a different style like a belgian, with this flavor comp, I think it could have been a homerun. However as an IPA there is a real mixed up feel to it

 

 

Four pack of 16 oz cans for $1.99 with a palate on the floor, so clearly this one was not well received. Peach IPA on the label, but Belgian IPA on the description tells the story. Look is clear and orange. Smell is Belgian yeast funk, and light peach. Taste delivers the Belgian, funky barnyard with peach helping late. Sure, some hops in there too with late piney bitter. Feel is fine, nice carb, a bit oily and slick. Overall it is a Belgian IPA, a polarizing style. The only compare I have is Raging Bitch from Flying Dog. This one is a touch more fruity than that one. It is a fun steal at $.50 a pint, but not my wheelhouse style if I had paid any more for it. I might buy a bunch of this and give it away to see others like this style.

 

 

 

Kinda needs a Prozac....amidst an identity crisis...

Dry faint peach with a big body and an almost malty feel...

Not screaming of an IPA at all, but not bad.... I was hoping for more from a good producer, This one has a lot going on and is surely not something I would crave again....