Epic Brainless on Peaches

The Epic Brewing Company is in Salt Lake City, Utah.  This is part of their Exponential Series of special release beers and is 10.5% ABV (perhaps what makes one brainless?).  This was release #8 of Brainless on Peaches and there were only 1800 bottles in this release.  It is a Belgian-style ale, brewed with peach puree, and aged in French oak chardonnay barrels.

The beer pours dark golden in color with a tint of orange (perhaps peach?).  There is a massive, boiling, foamy white head.  There is carbonation like champagne on steroids.  The aroma is quite distinctively chardonnay and a lot of fruity tart yeast.  There is not nearly as much peach as I expected, in fact, almost none in the aroma.  The taste is the tarty fruitiness of yeast, followed by chardonnay, followed by more yeast, finishing in banana estery yeast.  The peach is faint in the aftertaste.  The aging in wood did not add as much oak and dryness as I expected.  The alcohol is not upfront, but slowly turns up the heat and lingers in the aftertaste.

I have had a couple of beers aged in chardonnay barrels, and I like the element that adds, but this lacks the peach and oak I would have expected.  It is somewhat disappointing, only because it doesn't seem to live up to its potential.