Lone Tree Brewing Replaces Peach Pale Ale with New Year-Round Peach Wheat

Peach Pale Ale built Lone Tree Brewing's reputation over 15 years. Now it's gone from the year-round lineup, and what's taken its slot is a fundamentally different beer.

Lone Tree's new Peach Wheat Ale is built on a soft wheat and pale malt backbone, with bold hop flavors of tropical fruit, candied peaches, and apricot carrying the load. It pours with a soft orange haze, medium body, approachable bitterness, and a stone fruit finish. The specs are squarely sessionable: the hop character brings notes of tropical fruit, candied peach, and apricot that complement the soft wheat and pale malt base, finishing clean with stone fruit at 5.4% ABV and just 9 IBUs.

The transition was months in the making. The brewhouse had been working on transitioning the Peach Pale Ale into the new Peach Wheat Ale, with a targeted release date of late February 2026. The press release landed March 6, with the first Untappd draft check-ins logged at the Lone Tree taproom that same evening.

The hop choice is the most interesting technical decision here. Lone Tree worked with Hopsteiner to feature Alora hops, a variety that boasts a tantalizing blend of peach, apricot, sweet melon, and yuzu fruit. Unlike most hop varietals that contain what the industry calls the "big 8" oil groups, Alora contains over 50% of unidentified total oil uncommon in hop chemistry, which is where those clean stone-fruit and yuzu notes come from rather than the dankness you'd expect from a more conventional aroma hop. For a fruit wheat ale trying to let real peach additions do the talking, that's a smart pairing.

Director of Brewhouse Operations Jerry Siote put it plainly: "The end of Peach Pale is truly the end of an era, but we welcome the fresh, fruit-forward flavors of this new wheat ale. We feel the most successful breweries balance the importance of tradition with willingness to experiment and adapt to customer preference. The Peach Pale was an important part of our growth over the years that taught us how to balance real fruit flavor with the goal of creating a 'beer-first' brand. Working closely with Hopsteiner showed us we can highlight Alora hops in the new Peach Wheat for their flavor notes of peach, yuzu fruit, sweet melon, and apricot."

That "beer-first" framing matters because Lone Tree has real fruit credentials to protect. The brewery also revamped its flagship IPA recipe in 2025, and Blueberry Blonde fruit puree additions increased by almost 60 percent to achieve a truly fruit-forward Blonde, so this isn't a brewery that treats fruit as a gimmick. Peach Pale Ale earned multiple awards during its run and was one of the brewery's earliest recipes.

Lone Tree opened its doors in 2011 near Park Meadows Mall as the first brewery in Lone Tree, Colorado. In 2025, Dale Hollars was promoted to Head Brewer after six years with Lone Tree, with Dennis O'Harrow stepping into the Lead Brewer role after six years as Head Brewer. The Peach Wheat is the new team's first major flagship statement.

Peach Wheat is now available on draft and in 6-packs to go at both Lone Tree locations in Lone Tree and Parker, and in cans at retailers and venues across Colorado. If you want to try it on draft before committing to a sixer, the original taproom near Park Meadows Mall and the Parker location both have it pouring now.

The 9 IBU number tells you everything about the intent: this is a beer engineered to be crushable, not complex. Whether the Alora hops can carry enough aromatics to keep the peach profile interesting past the first pint is the real question, and that's one only a barstool at the taproom can answer.