Peaches & Cream
Urban Artifact

 

 

 

On tap at a local bar. Looks good, cloudy yellow. Smells like tart peaches, which I liked. Taste is way to sour for me. I felt like I was making a face after every sip. The extreme sourness dominated the flavor of peaches and ruined it for me.

Taking a decidedly summery turn, Urban Artifact celebrates one of the most loved fruit deserves and rolls it into a beer. Southern sweet peaches wrap around creamy flavors and propped up with nitro-infused bubbles for a smooth, silky and sensible sour session.

Peaches & Cream hits the glass with a milky golden hue before patiently floating a creamy and dense blanket of foam. As a somber scent of the pitted fruit provides a gentle perfume of stone fruit, tropical fruit and citrus, a soothing hint of cream suggests smoothie. Sweeter on the tongue, a light cereal sweetness carries hints of taffy and honey before the sourness arrives.

As the bubbles rush out of the ale, a somewhat flat texture allows the peach and cereal to lay flatly on the tongue. As the taste of peach carries a ripe, radiant and fresh fruit character, the taste only reaches a medium level of intensity while the underlying sourness of green apple, lemon and lime give the late taste a familiar and clean lactic tartness for a clean and refreshing finish.

Light in flavor, light in body and soft on the palate, Peaches & Cream simply lacks the palate impact as most of their regular sour ales and leaves the tastebuds wanting much, much more.

 

 

 

Paired with Lemonades Girl scout cookie.
Beer pours pale yellow in color with thick white head. Lots of carbonation. Not much peach, but do get lemony nose. Taste is also acidity lemon/lime. Good beer and great pairing.

 

Expect some tart peach a ton of it not so much to eat the enamel off your teeth but thats basically all there is maybe a mild vanilla in the finish. I don't hate it though its a simple fruit beer that met my expectations but I wish the cream was a bit more predominant. Still well worth the 3 dollar purchase I bought two,

 

Poured from a twelve ounce can, the body is a faded, cloudy yellow-orange. Not much head and light lacing.

Taste is a nicely tart burst with background peach flavor. As the beer warmed, the tartness became less aggressive allowing a wee bit of sweetness to surface.

Mouthfeel is soft thanks to the nitro and carbonation is light.

An enjoyable beer on a hot afternoon

 

 

 

 

On tap at The Brass Tap, Cedar Falls, IA. Served in a snifter. Appearance? Well, it looks just like Bailey's Irish Cream with a frothy, long-lasting cream-colored head that clung to the glass forever. Very sour, with aromas and flavors of slightly bitter overripe peach. Not much sweetness either. Creamy mouthfeel as expected (it was on nitro). On the whole, this is all over the place and it never quite hits the mark. (To be fair, it might have been due to my sample being the first draw from a fresh keg. I would not be loath to giving it another shot.)