Meadoweisse On Peaches
West Sixth Brewing Company

Puckering sour and with a kiss of fruit, the Meadoweisse berliner weissebier now enjoys a gentle layer of peaches for a fruit-forward tilt that gives the cidery, lemony, and briny beer a rounded fruit presence with even more acidity.

Pale straw but with the suggestions of peach even in its hazy appearance, the beer explodes with an exuberant zest that float and pops at the rim. Dry pere, cider, lemon and wine spring to the nose with a tingle and a tantilizing citronella perfume. Sweet wheat and light dough is modestly sugary to start, woven together with enough fruit to suggest sweetheart tangy candy.

As the sweetness lifts, the natural ale flavors wrap around the tongue- crabapple, lime, lemon, white grape, gooseberry and kiwi all come to mind, even before the acidic peach flavor adds its scrubbing action to the tastebuds. Apricot, mango and guava resonate late while a light musten brine of the sea couples with hay and burlap to close.

Sourness replaces bitterness in the beer's balance. Its medium-light body retains tethers of sweetness and a soft wheaten creaminess for an off-dry texture and taste. Fruit is rounded and succulent though trends dryish. Lightly peppery, earthy and mature, the beer's lightly bruised fruit flavor suggests a richer taste that extends further than short on the after-palate.