Peach Sunsprite
Wax Wings Brewing Company

Initially a sour punch with stone fruit. Then a hint of honey with long vanilla finish. This was surprisingly delicious.

2021 bottling; consumed on 5/15/21

Pours a completely hazy burnt orange body capped with a finger of bubbly, off-white foam, which maintains well and steadily fizzles out to a sliver of cap, a somewhat rocky ring of collar, and minimal-no lacing holding with any longevity to the walls of the glass.

Aroma opens with fuzzy peaches and floral vanilla invoking more vivid tones of peach cobbler over time; a fresh honey sweetness builds steadily and flows decadently over the middle, forming notes of pie crust as prickly oak, and wisps of lactic acidity make an appearance on the back end and through the close.

Taste shows honeyed sweetness eased slightly with floral vanilla and a lacto-funk bursting toward fresh peach coming to fruition over the mid-palate; signs of oak begin to form against an earthy minerality on the back end as pink grapefruit lemonade and an increasing oaky grit finish.

Mouthfeel brings a medium-light body with a brief puff of moderate carbonation; lactic brightness reaches a semi-slick/syrupy peak, dissipating to a soft spritz past mid-palate; the back end begins slightly wet before progressing into a finish both drying and sporting moderate residual sugars, culminating with a jab of moderate tartness through the swallow.

Somewhere between a traditional American Wild and outright smoothie sour, an almost dessert-style fruit tart ale is invoked in this beer; light yet layered, sweet and appealing to a basic sensory experience, funk is softened to something less traditional, but enjoyably quenching nonetheless.