Ithaca Apricot Wheat

Brewed by Ithaca Beer Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Ithaca, New York USA

On tap at Delaney’s (New Haven, CT): Pours light, orange-y yellow with little to no head. Nose is light and airy, with real apricot in the effervesence. Flavor is similar. Drinkability: Clean, refreshing, and easy. Unfortunately there’s not much to it, mild really, but that’s expected for a wheat beer. Rebuy: Yes. #206 on 21112009, DG.

20th August 2008. Pale gold beer with a very slight haze. Low carbonation. Clean but watery beer with a tepid apricot flavour. Inoffensive but too watery and yet another in a long line of dissapointing fruit wheat beers. Somebody muct crack this style?

Draught sample at Delaneys. Pours gold with a white head. Smells buttery and of apricots. Tastes sweet and syruppy with some buttery fruit on the finish.

From a bottle poured straw color with a fair amount of head. Nice light apricot flavor with a quick finish.

12 oz bottle. Clear golden yellow with a small white head. Smelled of apricot and had some underlying aromas of wheat and malt. Flavor was mostly fruity and sweet with a faint hop bitterness. Light to medium body, actively carbonated and a sweet apricot finish. Not bad for the type of beer, not overly sweet but had a bit of a fake/extract fruit flavor.

Aroma and taste are heavily apricot. Slight bitterness in the finish. Med-light body with big carbonation. Not bad, but not something I’d seek out again.

pint glass: The palate is good, well carbonated and medium bodied... these qualities help to balance and wash the mouth clean of the strong apricot tones of the beer. Definitely real fruit used here, as I sense some bitterness where I expected artificial sweeteners.

Bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a thin off-white head. Aroma and flavor deliver exactly what they promise, apricot and wheat, and not in a cloying way. Not overly sweet, light to medium bodied, gentle and smooth. A nice fruit beer, very natural and subtle instead of just tons of fruit and sweetness.