Dogfish Head ApriHop

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Milton, Delaware USA

On tap pours a dirty golden. Light hops and fruit. Flavor is sweet malt and apricot nicely balanced with hops.

On tap at the WIllimantic Brewpub. Pours a clear light brown with a small white head. Aroma is not very strong, slightly fruity. Flavor is dominated by sweet apricot (though not in a bad way), light citrusy fruits, with a tart finish. Not much of a hop presence, despite it being classified as an IPA (fruit beer is probably more accurate). Sweet, light, and refreshing! Very good. 6/4/7/4/15 (3.6/5)

Update 4/16/09: 2009 bottle. Wow, I don’t know if it’s a tap vs. bottle difference or a batch difference or what, but the bottled version is quite awful. Aroma has the same grassy/garlicky hops that the IPAs have. Flavor is medicinally sweet (a generic sweetness more than apricot specifically), kind of a muddied blend of fruit and malt that does not work. Wow, this is really bad. My suggestion is avoid the bottles!!! 4/4/5/2/11 (2.6/5)

The aroma was of a hoppy apricot if you can imagine that. It really smelled of natural apricot which was both impressive and pleasing. This is my first apricot beer - are there a lot? — and I was really impressed. It was smooth and fruity but not over powering. It was very well balanced. It was great with a light lunch on a warm day.

Pours a translucent orange / brown with a small white head. Aroma of malt, apricrots, spices, citrus. Flavor of malt, hops, citrus, apricots and a little on the sweet malty side. Interesting brew.

Smells strongly of sweet fragrant apricots and a hint of nice sour hops. Pours a nice dark copper color with a fluffy white head. Taste is sour apricot, dominantly malts with some hops. Not really a typical IPA and nothing like any other apricot beer I’ve had. Still quite tasty though

Another quality IPA from Dogfish Head. This is a very unique taste because it’s a fruit beer, sort of. It’s brewed with fruit but is really an IPA and therefore both avid beer drinkers and girls can enjoy it.

orangish appearance with only slight white head. mild carbonation. flavor is of pale malt with definite apricot flavor present, but not necessarily creating a sweet aspect. the hops are mainly for bittering and their combo with the apricots are kind of peculiar. a unique idea and a refreshing beer, but i wouldn’t say it really should be considered a pale ale, just a fruite ale

Nose is pretty much as advertised, a spicy resiny somewhat citric hop and fruity apricots. Starts creamy with a nice level of bready fruitiness, like an apricot cobbler, then a spicy and citric hop comes through on the side of the tongue and leads to a fairly bitter finish. This drinks almost too easily! A nice way to drink spring. Weak tea colored with a modest foamy head.