West Coast Peach Pilsner
Big Rock Brewery

Pale golden in color, clear, bubbly and pouring with a finger width of finely bubbled white colored head that has a middling retention to it, that leaves a few light strings of lace on the sides of the glass.

Nice aroma of slightly under ripe, tart, fuzzy peaches with some light hints of a floral hop.

Lightly peachy forward with a slightly tart fruitiness to it and a light digestive biscut or processed brown bread Pilsner malt base to it, light bodied with a faint sweetness and higher then average carbonation to it. Crisp lightly floral/ grassy hop finish to it, fairly clean but some traces of sour peaches and faintly hoppy hints that linger on the palate.

 

 

330ml bottle, part of the Canada 150 variety pack from Big Rock that celebrates our nation's upcoming birthday via 6 brews that represent the diversity of said land.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, foamy, and creamy bone-white head, which leaves some awkward webbed lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.

It smells of candied peaches, a further bit of apricot and plum fruitiness, grainy and bready pale malt, and a hint of leafy, weedy, and floral noble hoppiness. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, still heady peach, apricot, and generic stone fruit esters, a touch of earthy yeastiness, and more understated leafy, musty, and dead floral green hop bitters.

The carbonation is adequate in its don't ask, don't tell frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee fruity creaminess there from the get-go. It finishes off-dry, the peach and friends character lingering like you tripped and fell face-first into an Okanagan orchard.

Overall, this is a pretty flavourful and refreshing fruit beer, the peach essence wavering between natural and sugary, which is all right by me. Maybe not something that I'd drink all day in the burgeoning Spring sunshine, but still good and approachable on its own.