Cascade Apricot Ale

Brewed by Cascade Brewing
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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A - Super hazy golden-orange with a finger of frothy white head. Fades normal. S - Funky brett and other yeasts, tart apricots, oak, vanilla, farmhouse character, lactic acid. T - Tart apricots and other citrus fruits, lots of funkiness and Brett, oak, vanilla, lactic acid, a touch of sourness, lemon zest. M - Medium bodied, moderate carbonation. Smooth with a tart and funky finish. D - Great wild ale. The apricots are nice and tart and the overall beer well balanced.

UPDATED: OCT 9, 2012 Nice summer beer. Wish there where more like it. Light taste great flavor. Strong sour flavor. Light finish

UPDATED: MAY 5, 2010 GABF 08’: Glorious apricot essence all over this beer, tending to be more like dried apricot than fresh, which is better when you’re looking for a strong apricot flavor. The nose was softly tart and full of apricot and the flavors were chewy apricot beyond recognition. Not sure how their kriek won the award and not this one, the apricot blows the kriek out of the water.

Courtesy of rayl101

Bottle: The aroma is heavy sour lemon and moderate apricot. It pours a hazy amber with a two finger white head. The flavor starts with a very quick yeastiness. The finish has heavy lemon sourness and light-moderate apricot. Overall, not mouth puckering, but pretty much the perfect amount of sourness.

Bottle
Pours a deep amber with a nice off-white head. Aroma is ceadr-aged apricot, sweet orange, barnyard floor, and hay-infused strawberries. Flavor is a sour rush of apricot soaked in cedar and left in a barn near a horse blanket. Simple, yet complex. The flavors wash over the tongue like a steady rain. Thanks for the recommendation on this one! Now, send more.

2009 Bottle, Sept 2010.

GTFO -- this is amazingly good. My favorite Cascade offering by a substantial margin. Splendid apricots, tending toward greenish, lots of apricot skin late in the flavor profile. The sour aspectes of this ale are restrained and hit just the right note (sure, without the incredibly expressive funk of Cantillon, but hey), tart enough to make this a sour rather than a fruit beer, but backgrounded enough to let the sourness in the apricots shine through. The oak is there if you look for it but never in your face. Superb. I’ll be buying more. Delicious cold, but as it warms it gets even better in that the apricot comes forward. Even the very good NB Eric’s is this beer’s bitch.

Thanks to bitbucket tasting. Huge fresh apricot aroma is decadent. The apricot flavors really come out in the taste, along with mild sourness. Fantastic balance and really came together smoothly. 8.35%? Would never know.

Bottle... Poured orange with a white head that stayed with a nice ring around the glass. Aroma of light fruit and tart wine-like characters. Dry palate. Very sweet, and the apricot was just perfect. Very subtle and played off the sour note perfectly.

Pure, pure aroma of apricots explodes out of the glass. Acidic, but not very funky; more clean fruit. Tartness is medium sour. A delicious expression of the apricot through this beer.

750ml bottle courtesy of ipa247. Thanks again Jeff! The bottle opens with an explosive pop and pours a cloudy dark golden orange/amber color with golden yellowish orange hues when held to a light source and a frothy two finger soapy off white head. Very good retention, only slowly fading into a lasting ring that leaves sporadic chnks of soapy lacing behind. Very funky aroma with lots of dry champagne like brett effervescence, earthy oak tannis and luscious fresh apricot notes. Slight lacto presence with oak, vanilla and subtle vinegary barnyard notes. The nose on this beer is very complex and although there is a lot of brett character, there’s also some authentic barnyard horsey funk, vinegar and uber-fresh fruit. Slightly funky, dry tart medium body that’s on the lighter end of the spectrum. Slightly vinegary and mouth puckering without being acidic at all. The lacto presence from the aroma is very prominent and give the mouthfeel a smooth creamy character. Lots of earthy oak tannis from the barrel aging that gives off some vanilla flavor. Dry bretty effervescence balanced b a very prominent juicy apricot flavor. Extremely quaffable and the high ABV id undetectable. Again, as in the aroma, there is a nice authentic funkiness that adds to the flavor and complexity of an already excellent beer. Recommended!