Cascade Apricot Ale

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

2009 Bottle. Apricot Ale pours well an apricot color. Go figure! It’s cloudy and nicely carbonation. A small white head forms but goes bye bye rather quickly. Smell has a nice deep fruitness about it. Apricots definitely take center stage here but I picked up some lemon and pear. Right behind is a good amount of funk and a nice backbone of malt and oak. Smells great. In the taste you’re greeted with the nice lactic acidic kick. Not overly sour but enough to wake up my taste buds. Mix in the lovely apricot taste with the oak and funk and you have a nice mixture here. It’s sour for sure but I feel like everything balances out the beer perfectly. Just lovely. The almost 9% alcohol was very well hidden. Dangerous! Mouthfeel is medium bodies, dry, and has a good amount of carbonation.

2009 bottling. 9,0% alc/vol. 750ml brown bottle shared with friends. Clear amber with a white head. I really like this peachy nose, apricot candy. Some acidity on the nose. The fuzzy peach taste is very interesting. Easy drinking, light and refreshing. This is a classic to be, way better than the kriek.

750ml bottle, 2009 bottling, amber color, with a beige head, sweet and sour earthy, fruity, apricot , funky, yeasty lactic nose, with some dusty, faint musty, horseblanket notes, and a light wet oak barrel, acidic orange peel, sharp accent in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a nice mild acidic, lactic yeast finkiness, chalky, spritzy earthy sour apricot character, with a light vanilla, wet oak barrel, milky yougurt sourness flavour, and some candied orange, tangerine peel, doughy, pale toasted malt undertones from is belgium tripel base, leading towards a warming. milkyish funkiness, sour, sharp apricot, candied orange rind, lemon acidic, wet oaky finish,

(Vintage 2009) Une mousse évanescente sur un liquide à la robe cuivrée et légèrement voilée. Un nez bien construit, à la fois souple et percutant. Des parfums d’abricot et de fruits tropicaux au profil légèrement suret. Une présence feutrée de notes rustiques. Un souffle chargé de douceur. Des saveurs agréables, un rappel de l’été dans cette mer de neige. Des fruits du verger et des fruits tropicaux. Des fleurs touchées par les microbes. Des notes surettes, lactiques et boisées touchées par des notes douces. Un réel plaisir. Une bouche de moyenne dimension avec une effervescence juste et une texture légère. Une finale parfumée par les abricots et les fleurs surettes.

Tap at Cascade. Pours to a golden body with a white head. Aroma of sour apricots and tang. The flavor is most definitely earthy apricots with a crisp sour kick. Sweet tangerines. The palate is nicely crisp and sour. Subtle oak.

Bottle, 2009 vintage. Big gusher. Murky amber pour, fluffy white head. Aroma of citrusy brett, mint, flowers, fruit. Taste of sour apricots, tropical fruits. Sour finish, but still quite sweet. A really good sour, too bad a bit was lost to the angels due to the gushing bottle.

Pours a copper orange color with a thin white head and a decent lace left behind. The nose is overly sweet and simple seeming a touch artificial. Candied sugars and spearamint tickle the nose as appricots take over and dominate. The taste is sugary and minty, lots of appricot roll over the tongue. Very little integration as the mint, sugars, and fruit don’t seem to have a defined roll. This is overly sweet with a creamy syrupy feel, prickly carbonation in the back, and a touch wet and oily.

Bottle shared by badnewsbeers. Murky medium orange body, just a few cream-colored bubbles at the surface. Beautiful apricot nose, funky, earthy and fleshy with bitter pit too. Pulpy, tart apricot puree body, sour, sharp, tart, and funky. The sour bite accentuates the apricot. Very nice.