3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20Dark amber body with plenty of foamy white head. Nice apricot nose with some faint floral hops and cherry. Cherry cough medicine taste with faint apricot taste.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours clear orange with off-white head and visible carbonation. Smell is citrus, fruit (indeed apricots, though they seem secondary), light male sweetness. Palate is medium bodied with some good carbonation. Taste is sweet and fruity at first, then gets a moderately bitter kick before return to some slight sweetness in the aftertaste. Nice, but the apricot isn’t really there and doesn’t seem to add much.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pours a orange/yellow copper color. Sweet, fruity aromas from head on the pour but not too much. Definite apricot taste mixed with hoppyness throughout the drink and finish on the palate. Different but good.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Westmeister’s Birthday Beer Tasting Extravaganza Beer #4. Is it a Fruit Beer with IPA tendencies or an IPA with Fruit Beer tendencies. Having not seen the label before tasting I stated,"this tastes like an IPA." Thus, I will go with the latter. Smells bitter and dry with a hint of cloves. Pours the brown with hints of blood orange red. Nice and fizzy. Bottle - Westmeister’s House - Cumming, GA
3.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 13/20
Fine brew by DFH. Pours orange / yellow with small tan head. Aroma is sweet apricots and citrus hops. Very smooth, average carbonation. Finishes sticky sweet, with a light hop bite.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap half pint at Gilly's Craft Beer & Wine in Rockville, MD.
Clear, red oak color with a creamy off-white head and very good lacing.
Aroma of grass, citrus, light fruit and bread.
Taste of light fruit, floral hops, bread, light malt, apricot and citrus.
Medium/full body and medium/high carbonation.
I recall the original release of Apricot tasting like a fruit infused beer and was disappointed that Dogfish would release such a mundane fruit-flavored beer. The current version tastes like a slightly fruity IPA. Is it my memory or has Dogfish improved the recipe?
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4.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Color is amber, with a tan head. Aroma is hoppy, and sweet. Flavor starts out very fruity, definitely has an apricot flavor, finishes slightly bitter. Heavy, smooth, and yet very drinkable.
Thinker
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Tastes like a dogfish 60 min but with a hint of apricot. The fruit flavor isn’t too strong and as usual dogfish did it right. Typically I don’t care for brews that have a fruit infused flavor, but this one is done well.
3.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: MAY 22, 2013 Decent IPA from dogfish, definitely different, you can taste the apricots, I would have liked a little more hops but still a decent beer. Not my fav from DFH either though.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours dark gold. Aroma is clearly apricot and some grassy spicy hop notes. Taste is strong on apricot but the hops used have a Taste of mango or sweet orange which meshes well with the apricot. Fairly one dimensional though which gets old after awhile. Props to dogfish for matching fruit with flavors and aromas from hops. I like the concept to accentuate the aromas and hops.
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2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 11/20
The apricot taste is extremely hard to detect ? Like many DFH brews has a sort of burnt taste. I have detected the burnt flavor in many of the DFH so called IPA’s. Although I am happy to have tried this one, I will not be hunting this one down again, overall not a fan of this beer and altgough i seem to be in the minority, in my personal opinion, not a huge fan of DFH.
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