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Ithaca Apricot Wheat

Ithaca Apricot Wheat - Fruit Beer

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24
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Brewed by Ithaca Beer Company
Style: Fruit Beer

Ithaca, New York USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
1852.74/5.02.74/5.04.9%48.7Flute
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Commercial Description:
An easy-drinking wheat beer is light in color and body...perfect for the warmer weather. In crafting this fine ale, we add many pounds of real apricot fruit to create a "secondary fermentation." This creates a gentle wheat beer with just a hint of apricot flavor in the finish. A very drinkable, mildly fruity ale.
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 Ofortuna (322), Grafton, Wisconsin, USA
1.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/52/102/53/20
Jul 9, 2007  
Last beer of the night and what a way to go out. WOW, what a mess! Who the heck thought this would be a great beer to release!?!? Looks like apple juice and has aromas of artificial apples and apricots all thrown into a vat of spoiled cabbage. Damn, is this one fouled! Thin, watery mess with too much forced CO2 ontop of everything else. Too many layers of foulness in here that I just don’t want to waste the time writing about them anymore.....


 1FastSTi (2551), Glendale, Wisconsin, USA
1.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/103/52/102/53/20
Jul 9, 2007  
Via Ughsmash. Holy crap this is awful! Pours to a transparent orangish pale yellow body with a very thin white head. The aroma is foul. Ick! Icky artificial (at least that’s what my palate is telling me) apricots. The flavor also has an artificial apricot component and wheat. The palate is over-carbonated and sticky. This was not good.


 MrManning (1634), London, Ontario, Canada
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/512/20
Jul 8, 2007  
This one is sparking yellow gold. The nose is pure fruity apricot, sugars, other fruit juice, like kool aid, peaches, and some mild hops. This apricot beer is tasting like it should, mainly like peaches and apricots, with a touch of bitter hops, and some sugary malts. More apricot than any other beer of the same name I usually drink. Good.


 Ughsmash (3983), Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/102/56/20
Jul 8, 2007  
Bottle, thanks Ken! Poured a clear brighter golden with a short cap of white head. Aroma was very much of apricots with some sweetness and some tartness..nothing I really wanted in a beer, and it didn’t work so well. Flavor also had the apricot tartness.. somewhat sour and damn near offensive.. left a nasty vegetal and apricot finish. Light-bodied, but sticky with the unpleasant flavors at the end. Wow.. this was quite bad.


 ukoolaid (572), Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/510/20
Jun 30, 2007  
Bottle. Pours a light slightly hazy yellow with diminishing white head. Aroma is apricot juice, and not much else. Taste is much of the same. Fairly watery. Nothing offensive here, but nothing to make me want another one either.


 ryan (1774), Beltsville, Maryland, USA
1.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/53/102/56/20
Jun 26, 2007  
Sample from kmweaver. Clear straw body with a tiny white head. The aroma is heavy, fake, apricot syrup. The flavor is sweet with lots more of that apricot jolly rancher syrup. Light body is thin, watery and moderately carbonated. This was really bad.


 doublebock (196), USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/57/103/517/20
Jun 20, 2007  
Not sure what these folks are thinking. with only a 2.7 out of 5. Color is golden with minimal head. Aroma is guess what-apricot. Apricot overwhelms the flavor but I am not an apricot eater but the mix is unique and refreshing. toasty maltiness at the end


 FROTHINGSLOSH (1961), GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/515/20
Jun 19, 2007    Updated: Aug 27, 2007
Sampled on draft at the Rivertowne pub in North Huntingdon PA this beer poured a pale golden color with a small white head. The aroma was very strong sweet apricot. The flavor was strong sweet apricot and only a hint of dry malts underneath. Tasty, but too syrupy sweet and not enough of an actual "beer" flavor to it.



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