Dogfish Head ApriHop

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

Bottle from Wine Warehouse Charlottesville. Pours a nice amber color with a small head. Good retention and lacing. Not much hoppiness is evident in the aroma, which is mostly the sour side of an apricot. (In a good way). Hops are barely noticeable with the balance of the apricots. Starts sour and then goes sweet. This skews a bit too far away from the hops, but it’s still pretty tasty.

Pours a light ruby color, with a slight head. Strong fruity aromas. Slight malt flavor and plenty of fruit flavor, but not much on the hop notes, which I didn’t expect given the description. Not bad overall.

Pours clear pinkish/amber with large bubbles and a soda like fizz. Fruity, sweet malty, metallic can sorta aroma. Soft macro type malts with some sweetness and metallic like bitterness. Little bit of hop saltiness. Really not extremely interesting and doesn’t seem to resemble anything else from DFH. Soda crispness. A miss for me. If the malts were stronger and a little more viscous this could be excellent. Instead its thin and bubbly like a champagne.

Man, the buzz about this beer is everywhere. I had seen it a few different places so I decided to try it. Aprihop. Hmm. Where’s the hops? There wasn’t much flavor on this one. Not to say that it was bad... just didn’t stand out. I though the Apricots might be strong, but they seemed non-existent. Sure i’d drink it again, just not all too memorable. Just goes to show you what Playboy knows about beer.

from the bottle, fresh apricots and hops upon opening then fades upon sitting. dry tasting with lively hints of apricot, a little too bubby for my tastes. expected a more hoppy presence as the name implies

12 oz bottle. Is it is fruit beer or an IPA? Or maybe some magical mix of the two. Hazy golden orange with a big white head. You can smell the apricots with a hint of piney hops. The sweet fruit comes thru in the taste to start and it finishes with a piney bitterness. Very good, I could drink a few.

Very average brew in my opinion... Very murky orange pour, really good head... Smells faintly like apricots, mostly of malt....no hops.... Hmmmm....not at all what I was expecting with a name like Aprihop... Not hoppy at all... Tastes like old dried apricots and some malt.... Drain pour all the way here. I tried to like this and just couldn’t.

Bottled, consumed 02/23/08. Hazy burnished hue, nice white head of fine bubbles that hangs around for quite a while. Aroma of apricot and with some piney hop notes. Smooth mouthfeel, a little thicker than water. Initial sweetness with apricot gives way to mellow piney hops. Subdued yet intense bitterness on aftertaste, along with a slight metallic flavor. Restrained astringency at end. Nice fruit beer, so much better than most.