Peaches & Coconut Cream
Back Bay Brewing Company in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
6.82
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Popped/exploding can. On a move of the can, a corner popped up and I immediately put it in the fridge. The next day, I opened the top and it exploded open and about 1/3 of the product made it into the sink. Super crazy deep orange, peach and bronze coloured body, all one hundred per cent opaque, super hazy with a very funky, ultra-fast-dying head that was tan and about eight centimetres tall at first (for what I caught in the glass) that faded immediately about ten seconds later to literally nothing. Aroma of oranges, peaches, funky brett, soured grapes, a good deal of malts and yes, a ton of lactobilly notes that are easilly the strongest with the lactose and vanilla right behind. Medium-bodied; Very strong creamy, milky, chewy profile that show the coconut cream, lactose, vanilla, cream, vanilla and even nutty profile (think rich cashews that are mild flavoured) that has a noticeable amount of fruit in the form of mangoes, oranges, pears and yes, peaches in the mix. Aftertaste is rich, super pungent, very sweet and incredibly fruity with the coconuts dominating in the form of the coconut milk, but pears, apples, oranges and peaches do come out in the fructose variety. Overall, a very strong and incredibly fruity beer that shows way more as 'mimosa' than as a fruit beer, but in context of the beer, the peaches, lactose and coconut were all nice, especially if you like one or all three of those! Despite the exploding can and losing about one third of the beer down my sink (after exploding), this was interesting and fairly nice. If I had to do it all over again, I'd drink it the first few minutes after buying, but barring that, I'm glad I opened it before the top really exploded and beer went everywhere in my cellar. I sampled this sixteen ounce can, purchased from the Department of Beer and Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 21-August-2020 for US$5.66 sampled at my house here in Washington on 31-August-2020, just ten days later. So, if you have this one and you see this, drink it now, otherwise, it will probably explode.