Charlie's Delights: Peaches & Dreams
Block 15 Brewing - Southtown Tap Room

a weird one here, a sugary desserty wit type, full of sediment and really unrefined, modern to a fault, not what i was hoping for from this and a weird departure from the quality i know and admire from these guys most of the time. its funny when a brewery calls its own beer over-fruited, but they do right on the label, and thats exactly what this is. a ton of sweet canned peach character in nose and taste, but it comes at the expense of a beer recognizable as a wit really at all. its reddish orange and full of gunk, no head after a second, and really dense for a style i want to be delicate and lively. its also tart, a weird edition to a beer thats also made intentionally sweet with unfermented fruit and milk sugar, as well as more vanilla than is needed. perhaps i get a little belgian yeast character to this, but its also weirdly acidic dried apricots on the palate, an unbaked fruitcake or something, and i just cant get into it. its an attempt to be overly new school, and i think it is a failed one. some will love this, citrus and vanilla and lactose in a beer that really doesnt taste or drink like beer, but i hoped the additives would be more subtle, the beer overall more true to style, and the mouthfeel the opposite of what it is really. i, for one, will not be in a hurry for any of the other variants they do in this series...