August 12, 2025 • 13 mins
Allen and RD try Festina Peche, an ale with peaches and natural flavors by Dogfish Head Brewery. 4.5% ABV.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is going on? Everybody? Welcome to strike a beer
quick beer reviews with your panels. Allan rap Dave Rapa,
Dave Malan.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
How's it going, buddy?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Not bad. We're finishing off this summer release of variety
pack that you picked up. This is a dogfish Head
Graft Brewery Festina Peshi or peachy or something like that.
These are season ales twenty twenty five. What do you
got on this?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
This is an ale with peaches and natural flavor. And
let's just see what uh tepsaid? I love peach Because
a refreshing neo beer liner Wise Festina pitch A is
back and available in six packs of summer as well
as our Summer Variety pack. Sadly, there are only a
few breweries left in Berlin still brewing the beer liner
(00:48):
Wise style, which is characterized by its intense tartness some
say sour. There were once over seventy breweries in Berlin
alone making this beer. In addition to fermentation with an
ale yeast, beer liner Wiss is traditionally fermented with lactic
cultures to produce its acidic or green apple like character.
(01:11):
Served as an a parf tiff or summertime quencher. Festina
is delicately hopped and has a pale straw color to
soften the intense sourness. Beer liner Wis is traditionally served
with a dash of essence of wood drift or raspberry
syrup and festina, peach or pechet. Since the natural peach
(01:36):
sugars are eaten by the yeast, the fruit complexity is
woven into both the aroma and taste of the beer,
so there is no need to doctor with wood drift
or raspberry syrup. Just open and enjoy. Four point five
percent ALCOHOLI volume nam IBus average score three point seven
one out of five on untapped out of three thy
(01:59):
seven hundred eighty four ratings they have. It classifies as
sour dashed fruited beer liner wise.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, so you're going you take a whiff of it
and it's all peaches like all you know whatever, just
boom boom boom. Yeah, and its good. It gives you,
I mean, it's it's right there. You go to you
take a drink, there's a soft part and then it's
(02:28):
really hard on the sour and then it kind of
just mellows away. But yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Light looking, nice head, big thick white foam head on it.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So this was originally released in two thousand and seven,
the Berlin or wise available in the summertime. This is
different than the other three that we had. It's available
all year round, all that kind of stuff. So this
one and the other three, it has a release day
of twenty twenty five, so this one's the oldest one.
So appearance, it's gonna be pale strong with a light
(03:04):
to medium haze. Huh yeah, true to you, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And good things to people watching while you talk.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Pale strong with light slight to medium haze. It definitely
it's a bit hazy, nothing too crazy though, like it's
it's just a very slight haze.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Very peachy mm hmm like sourness, but with a lot
of peach flavor.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah. The aroma is bright peach notes of pits and
fuzzy rhymes. I get a lot of peaches on.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
The smell too, A ton of peaches.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, I feel like I'm in a presence of the
United States of American music video. Millions of peaches, peaches
for me, meons the peaches peaches for free, although I
did have to pay for this twelve pack.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
But so flavor moderates a strong tartness, slightly sweet from
the peaches. Definitely tart, super tart.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Sourness flavor, but pretty good. Like I think the peach
flavor really mells out like the tart and the sourness
taste like you hit you at first, but then the
peaches kind of take over. I think, what are you thinking?
(04:24):
You're picking it up? You're picking up what I'm putting down.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Boy, it's peachy, it's peachy, but the sours right there,
they're going hand in hand at this point. So it's
kind of working. But it's whatever. Mouthfield quick finish with
some perceived acidity light carbonation. Now, yeah, the carbonation is
kind of it's pretty light. It's pretty light.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I mean it dresses down the glass if you're move
it around, you pick up the head on it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
But yeah, the it's not perceived uh acidity, it's you
got it. It's it's there. It's it's absolutely freaking there.
So but I do like the peach smell, like as
you brought it up to your snizz, you know, like, oh, Wes,
(05:15):
smell is good. I like to wait as smells.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I like peaches.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I can even peach for days. There you go, I
like peaches, and then kind of tastes like peach, but
then you have the the sour kind of over.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well. I actually think it's the opposite way. I think
you you get hit with the sourness and the tartness
at front, but then the peaches take over like that.
That's what I'm left thinking about when I drink. This
is the peaches sourness, tartness up front, and then the
peach flavor comes in and takes over and says, oh,
(05:50):
let me take.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You on a journey a kind of little I got
a little back and forth on that last one, little peach,
little little little sour and him back to peach. It's
an interesting rule.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I will tell you this. I enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I'm not I'm not a three point seventy one that
it is. I think a more long lines of like
a three. How to find on this?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Is it missing anything? Is it like not hitting or
just because it's tart and sour you're not a fan
of that.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I just I want something different out of my beers.
I mean, for what it is, it is what it is.
I like the fact that the peach kind of takes
over for me. For me, I like the fact that
the peach takes over at the end and overrides the
sourness and the tartness.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, you're right about that. I do like the color
and you can't tell them my my screen green screen there.
But it's definitely hitting this check in boxes on the
smooth for what it is. Mm hmm. It's not terrible.
It's it's I'll say this. Can I say refreshing?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, you can't say. We'll just say this. You can
say whatever you want to.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
On a hot summer day, this one in the sequench
al we've already come through or whatever. I find them
both to be kind of like if it's really hot outside,
I think they play. But here we are kind of
late night to doing little tipsy beer reviews, and I
think it'd be better at five o'clock in the afternoon,
(07:39):
middle August in North Texas.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Okay, I will say I like this one better than
I do the sequench I gave them both threes, but
I would say this one is better than the other one. Yeah,
And that's because the peach flavor kind of takes over again.
I enjoy the fact that the peach flavor takes over
at the end, and that's what I left That's what
(08:04):
I'm left thinking about, is the peach flavor and not
the sourness or the tartness. It's the peach that hangs
out on the back of the of the tongue, the
back of the mouth. I says, hey, peaches are good,
enjoy it, And I go, Okay, you like peaches or
(08:25):
nectarine better me. I'm more of a peach guy, more.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
A softer side of things.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, I mean I would say I enjoy them both.
But if you said, you know, gun to my head, hey,
peach or nectarine, what are you taking? Give me a peach? Okay,
So what about you.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
For this one? I do like it better than the
the sequence ChIL.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Me too, I gave I get I gave a three.
I gave the sequench a three. I give this one
a three. But then again, it's because your scores go
from three to three point two five, right as far
as like, if I would grade this on untapped, which
is how we grade our things, you have to move
in quarter. So I don't think it's a three two five.
(09:19):
Like if if you were like, hey, what would you
grade this? I would give the sequence of three and
I'd give this like a three point one five three
point two, like somewhere between the three and the three
point twenty five, but ahead of the Sequench. But as
far as scores are concerned, three.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I'll say three as well. I like the can art obviously.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I like the can art on the other one more.
I think the cannar on the I've got it right here.
I think the cannon on the sequench.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I like that too. I like it too.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's better than on this one.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, yeah, I am enjoying the peach. I like the peach.
It's not as sour, it's not as so tart, but
it is tart. But uh, yeah, three is fine with me.
It's like, well, I have it again, I'll probably have
at some point in my life. It's not something I.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Will have another one in the fridge.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, it's just not something I would I'm ordering. But
I can understand people who would like this and uh
the fruitiness of it and things like that, the sourness.
But yeah, not bad. I mean we went I mean
we were knocking out of the park with Grateful Dead
and then thirty minute Light I PA.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I think both of those are phenomenal. But then you
go to sour type beer, and I'm like, uh, why why?
I don't know, especially on the summer, Like, I don't
want a sour beer during the summer.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
When do you want it?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Not summer?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Well, come on now, you don't want one in the
one fall?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Fall? Spring? Spring? How about spring? How about spring time?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Okay, maybe spring, I guess not in the fall, though,
come on now, come.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
On now, I just I just summer. I want light,
crisp and refreshing.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I don't want sour when it's one hundred and ten
degrees outside or one hundred degrees outside, which we experience
all the time here in Texas. I don't want to
sour beer. I want to light, crisp, crushable beer. That's
what I want during the summer. And a sour is
not a light, crisp, er crushable beer. It's just not like,
that's not what I want during the summer. Give me spring, spring.
(11:38):
How about that? Does that work for you? Spring?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I accept that, okay, yeah, because I know it's.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Not because it's August. It's not spring. Yeah, it's summer.
It's hot.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Because what are we drinking? Fall?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Wow? Drinking drinking October stuff?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
First? More moss all that.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Winter time, I'm drinking stouts, dark.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Beer, black I pas, you know, heavy, heavy beersything.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I'll drink whatever anytime. But when I when I talk
about summer, if I go outside and the mow my yard,
I don't want a sour beer after I'm done long
my yard. I want light, crisp, refreshing, crushable. That's what
I want. And that's not the sour.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
There you go, but still enjoyable. Yeah, yeah, thumbs up
for me.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And if you like peaches, this is the beer for you.
This is a beer for someone who loves peaches. So
Nicholas Cage and face off, who can eat a peach
for days? This is for you.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
But hey, guys, thank you so much for watching. Have
you had this? Have you had this?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Have you had?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Hold on? Hold on, hold on, hold on? Have you
had this? Have you had?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Goh, reach all over here this summertime? Dogfish Head and
mixed pack A variety. You get twelve beers, four different styles,
three of each. Have you had it? Have you had
all of them? What do you think? Let us know?
As always, I'm Allen, Talk to you later, deuces
What is going on? Everybody? Welcome to strike a beer
quick beer reviews with your panels. Allan rap Dave Rapa,
Dave Malan.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
How's it going, buddy?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Not bad. We're finishing off this summer release of variety
pack that you picked up. This is a dogfish Head
Graft Brewery Festina Peshi or peachy or something like that.
These are season ales twenty twenty five. What do you
got on this?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
This is an ale with peaches and natural flavor. And
let's just see what uh tepsaid? I love peach Because
a refreshing neo beer liner Wise Festina pitch A is
back and available in six packs of summer as well
as our Summer Variety pack. Sadly, there are only a
few breweries left in Berlin still brewing the beer liner
(00:48):
Wise style, which is characterized by its intense tartness some
say sour. There were once over seventy breweries in Berlin
alone making this beer. In addition to fermentation with an
ale yeast, beer liner Wiss is traditionally fermented with lactic
cultures to produce its acidic or green apple like character.
(01:11):
Served as an a parf tiff or summertime quencher. Festina
is delicately hopped and has a pale straw color to
soften the intense sourness. Beer liner Wis is traditionally served
with a dash of essence of wood drift or raspberry
syrup and festina, peach or pechet. Since the natural peach
(01:36):
sugars are eaten by the yeast, the fruit complexity is
woven into both the aroma and taste of the beer,
so there is no need to doctor with wood drift
or raspberry syrup. Just open and enjoy. Four point five
percent ALCOHOLI volume nam IBus average score three point seven
one out of five on untapped out of three thy
(01:59):
seven hundred eighty four ratings they have. It classifies as
sour dashed fruited beer liner wise.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, so you're going you take a whiff of it
and it's all peaches like all you know whatever, just
boom boom boom. Yeah, and its good. It gives you,
I mean, it's it's right there. You go to you
take a drink, there's a soft part and then it's
(02:28):
really hard on the sour and then it kind of
just mellows away. But yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Light looking, nice head, big thick white foam head on it.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So this was originally released in two thousand and seven,
the Berlin or wise available in the summertime. This is
different than the other three that we had. It's available
all year round, all that kind of stuff. So this
one and the other three, it has a release day
of twenty twenty five, so this one's the oldest one.
So appearance, it's gonna be pale strong with a light
(03:04):
to medium haze. Huh yeah, true to you, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And good things to people watching while you talk.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Pale strong with light slight to medium haze. It definitely
it's a bit hazy, nothing too crazy though, like it's
it's just a very slight haze.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Very peachy mm hmm like sourness, but with a lot
of peach flavor.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah. The aroma is bright peach notes of pits and
fuzzy rhymes. I get a lot of peaches on.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
The smell too, A ton of peaches.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, I feel like I'm in a presence of the
United States of American music video. Millions of peaches, peaches
for me, meons the peaches peaches for free, although I
did have to pay for this twelve pack.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
But so flavor moderates a strong tartness, slightly sweet from
the peaches. Definitely tart, super tart.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Sourness flavor, but pretty good. Like I think the peach
flavor really mells out like the tart and the sourness
taste like you hit you at first, but then the
peaches kind of take over. I think, what are you thinking?
(04:24):
You're picking it up? You're picking up what I'm putting down.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Boy, it's peachy, it's peachy, but the sours right there,
they're going hand in hand at this point. So it's
kind of working. But it's whatever. Mouthfield quick finish with
some perceived acidity light carbonation. Now, yeah, the carbonation is
kind of it's pretty light. It's pretty light.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I mean it dresses down the glass if you're move
it around, you pick up the head on it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
But yeah, the it's not perceived uh acidity, it's you
got it. It's it's there. It's it's absolutely freaking there.
So but I do like the peach smell, like as
you brought it up to your snizz, you know, like, oh, Wes,
(05:15):
smell is good. I like to wait as smells.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I like peaches.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I can even peach for days. There you go, I
like peaches, and then kind of tastes like peach, but
then you have the the sour kind of over.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well. I actually think it's the opposite way. I think
you you get hit with the sourness and the tartness
at front, but then the peaches take over like that.
That's what I'm left thinking about when I drink. This
is the peaches sourness, tartness up front, and then the
peach flavor comes in and takes over and says, oh,
(05:50):
let me take.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You on a journey a kind of little I got
a little back and forth on that last one, little peach,
little little little sour and him back to peach. It's
an interesting rule.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I will tell you this. I enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I'm not I'm not a three point seventy one that
it is. I think a more long lines of like
a three. How to find on this?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Is it missing anything? Is it like not hitting or
just because it's tart and sour you're not a fan
of that.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I just I want something different out of my beers.
I mean, for what it is, it is what it is.
I like the fact that the peach kind of takes
over for me. For me, I like the fact that
the peach takes over at the end and overrides the
sourness and the tartness.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, you're right about that. I do like the color
and you can't tell them my my screen green screen there.
But it's definitely hitting this check in boxes on the
smooth for what it is. Mm hmm. It's not terrible.
It's it's I'll say this. Can I say refreshing?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, you can't say. We'll just say this. You can
say whatever you want to.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
On a hot summer day, this one in the sequench
al we've already come through or whatever. I find them
both to be kind of like if it's really hot outside,
I think they play. But here we are kind of
late night to doing little tipsy beer reviews, and I
think it'd be better at five o'clock in the afternoon,
(07:39):
middle August in North Texas.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Okay, I will say I like this one better than
I do the sequench I gave them both threes, but
I would say this one is better than the other one. Yeah,
And that's because the peach flavor kind of takes over again.
I enjoy the fact that the peach flavor takes over
at the end, and that's what I left That's what
(08:04):
I'm left thinking about, is the peach flavor and not
the sourness or the tartness. It's the peach that hangs
out on the back of the of the tongue, the
back of the mouth. I says, hey, peaches are good,
enjoy it, And I go, Okay, you like peaches or
(08:25):
nectarine better me. I'm more of a peach guy, more.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
A softer side of things.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, I mean I would say I enjoy them both.
But if you said, you know, gun to my head, hey,
peach or nectarine, what are you taking? Give me a peach? Okay,
So what about you.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
For this one? I do like it better than the
the sequence ChIL.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Me too, I gave I get I gave a three.
I gave the sequench a three. I give this one
a three. But then again, it's because your scores go
from three to three point two five, right as far
as like, if I would grade this on untapped, which
is how we grade our things, you have to move
in quarter. So I don't think it's a three two five.
(09:19):
Like if if you were like, hey, what would you
grade this? I would give the sequence of three and
I'd give this like a three point one five three
point two, like somewhere between the three and the three
point twenty five, but ahead of the Sequench. But as
far as scores are concerned, three.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I'll say three as well. I like the can art obviously.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I like the can art on the other one more.
I think the cannar on the I've got it right here.
I think the cannon on the sequench.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I like that too. I like it too.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's better than on this one.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, yeah, I am enjoying the peach. I like the peach.
It's not as sour, it's not as so tart, but
it is tart. But uh, yeah, three is fine with me.
It's like, well, I have it again, I'll probably have
at some point in my life. It's not something I.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Will have another one in the fridge.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, it's just not something I would I'm ordering. But
I can understand people who would like this and uh
the fruitiness of it and things like that, the sourness.
But yeah, not bad. I mean we went I mean
we were knocking out of the park with Grateful Dead
and then thirty minute Light I PA.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I think both of those are phenomenal. But then you
go to sour type beer, and I'm like, uh, why why?
I don't know, especially on the summer, Like, I don't
want a sour beer during the summer.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
When do you want it?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Not summer?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Well, come on now, you don't want one in the
one fall?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Fall? Spring? Spring? How about spring? How about spring time?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Okay, maybe spring, I guess not in the fall, though,
come on now, come.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
On now, I just I just summer. I want light,
crisp and refreshing.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I don't want sour when it's one hundred and ten
degrees outside or one hundred degrees outside, which we experience
all the time here in Texas. I don't want to
sour beer. I want to light, crisp, crushable beer. That's
what I want during the summer. And a sour is
not a light, crisp, er crushable beer. It's just not like,
that's not what I want during the summer. Give me spring, spring.
(11:38):
How about that? Does that work for you? Spring?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I accept that, okay, yeah, because I know it's.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Not because it's August. It's not spring. Yeah, it's summer.
It's hot.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Because what are we drinking? Fall?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Wow? Drinking drinking October stuff?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
First? More moss all that.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Winter time, I'm drinking stouts, dark.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Beer, black I pas, you know, heavy, heavy beersything.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I'll drink whatever anytime. But when I when I talk
about summer, if I go outside and the mow my yard,
I don't want a sour beer after I'm done long
my yard. I want light, crisp, refreshing, crushable. That's what
I want. And that's not the sour.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
There you go, but still enjoyable. Yeah, yeah, thumbs up
for me.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And if you like peaches, this is the beer for you.
This is a beer for someone who loves peaches. So
Nicholas Cage and face off, who can eat a peach
for days? This is for you.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
But hey, guys, thank you so much for watching. Have
you had this? Have you had this?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Have you had?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Hold on? Hold on, hold on, hold on? Have you
had this? Have you had?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Goh, reach all over here this summertime? Dogfish Head and
mixed pack A variety. You get twelve beers, four different styles,
three of each. Have you had it? Have you had
all of them? What do you think? Let us know?
As always, I'm Allen, Talk to you later, deuces
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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. From the border crisis, to the madness of cancel culture and far-left missteps, Clay and Buck guide listeners through the latest headlines and hot topics with fun and entertaining conversations and opinions.