
I don’t think it’s a secret based on some of my previous tastings, but I tend to enjoy fruity beers when the weather gets hot. I am a fan of peaches, my grandpa and grandma always seemed to have some in the house. Growing up, there were even a couple of orchards not too far from where I grew up where we could get the freshest ones. I do not like peach flavored syrup. So bunches of sweet teas with nasty peach flavoring in them are a miss.
RJ Rockers, Son of a Peach, is a fruity wheat ale. Do I need to tell ya’ it’s unfiltered or is that kind of a given when I say it’s a wheat beer? Unfiltered means it’s cloudy, you never get pretty color in a glass from these beers so I prefer to just drink ‘em straight out of the bottle. From the moment you plop the cap off the bottle, the peach aroma curls up your nose and gets your mouth all excited. And the first sip is delightful. It’s just enough peach to be believable that RJ Rockers used real fruit and not just a flavor concentrate. So if they cheated- they fooled me.
I drank the first one so fast I forgot to actually savor it properly. So- I opened a second one and remembered to jot down how good it was and how much I liked it. I had a jar of peach salsa in my cupboard (I mentioned already that I like peaches, right?); I don’t anymore. It mysteriously disappeared along with more of the Son of a Peach.
My husband doesn’t like the unfiltered wheats as much as I do and even he helped me drink my way through this six pack of bottles after he saw how much I really liked it. Heck, he doesn’t even like peaches, but since the beer isn’t fuzzy like its fruity counterpart, he liked it too! We tend to have drastically different beer tastes so anytime we find one we both like, it makes for less arguments over which bottles we cram into our tiny beer fridge.