Bethlehem Brew Works Apricot Coriander Ale

Brewed by Fegley’s Brew Works
Style: Fruit Beer
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Allentown. Pours a medium copper with some chill haze and a thinning head. Aroma is medium apricot essence, seems slightly fake, with some doughy toasted malts, wheat character, yeasty phenolics and even a hint of salt? Flavor is more apricot with some pineapple it seemed, crackery dull malts, and light peppery yeasty spicy notes. A slight bit slick.

On tap, Bethlehem. Slightly hazy copper body with a small fizzy off-white head. The nose is full of over-ripe apricots. Lighter coriander and some caramel malt. Smells kind of like a fruit smoothie. The flavor is like biting into a fresh apricot in mid-summer, very natural tasting. Estery, with the coriander coming out a bit more on the finish. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, not clingy at all with a lingering spicy finish. Overall, a pretty damn good for a fruit beer.

On tap at the Bethlehem location. Poured a medium golden color with an averaged sized off white head. Yep, aromas and tastes of apricot and coriander/spices.

Draft at Allentown Pours a good amber gold with a white head. Aroma is definetly fruity with the major one being apricot. Flavor was apricot with hints of spicies. Had good carbination and an alright mouthfeel. Light bodied and a decent finish. This is not what I would seek out in a beer but it really was not bad.

on tap-pours a white head and hazy gold/amber color. Aroma is mild apricot/peach, medium malt. Taste is apricot/lemon/peach pit, medium malt, coriander/somewhat sweet, peppery. Finishes slightly tart/tangy/grass, Ok effervescence. Slightly syrupy mouth feel, medium body.

On tap at Bethlehem locaiton. Pours a translucent copper with golden notes and a medium creamy white head that laced. Aroma of light apricot, Belgian yeast esters, bready malt and a touch of the coriander. Flavor of dougy malt, very like corriander and apricot and Belgian yeast spicy notes there as well. Kind of reminds me of a Belgian single ale with just a faint touch of the fruit and spice.

Draft at BBW. Medium goldish pour with very little off-white head. I got a spicy and fruity aroma, with definite apricot and some pale malt. The flavor started spicy, and then the apricot kicked in, all the while retaining a very refreshing quality. Medium to light palate heft.

Hey, I’ll admit it, I liked this one. The appearance was the weakest part, very little head and no lacing. The aroma was spicey, coriander most prominent over the light fruity aroma (although w/o the description, I couldn’t identify apricots specifically). Flavor came across as a witbier with apricots lightly mixed in (again, the fruits didn’t dominate this one). A little more fruity and sweet than the average witbier, but a neat twist on the style. Couldn’t drink as many of these strait on through, like I could wits, but a nice finishing drink.

Pours orange with a thin white head. Smells of coriander and oranges. Taste is initially soappy before mellowing out to reveal the apricot.

Not much aroma. Cloudy yellow color. Hint of apricot aroma. Mildly spicy taste from the coriander. Couldn’t really taste the apricot at all. Not a bad beer, but taste was not not pronounced enough.