Ithaca Apricot Wheat

12oz bottle. Pours a clear, pale honey-orange color; off-white head with patchy lacing. Apricot marmalade and tea-like malts in the aroma. Medium mouthfeel: fake smarties / candy necklace sugariness; artificial apricot and fruit flavoring; unremarkable. Light, sugary finish. My apologies to Ughsmash for sending him a bottle of this. Fluffy sugar.

Draft. Pale yellow in color. Strong apricot-tangerine. Watery; not a big follow through. 1-note wonder. Sampled @ American Beer Fest in Boston.

12 oz brown bottle. Pop the lid for a whiff of apricots. Sweet apricot perfume. Looks like any other popular American lager. No head. For a wheat beer, this is not cloudy. Take a swig and you get a flavor impact, apricots and all. Fairly sour bite on the tongue that turns into a medium high alky shockwave. It feels like much more alky than the 4.5% listed here. Perhaps a little rude on the palate. Yes this is definitely fruity beer. The fruitiness takes over the tasting session, with that persisting alky impact. Exceptionally fruity almost to an artificial sense. Lots of apricot with very little if any sugar. Very difficult to find enjoyable. OK to have experienced this but probably would not purchase again. If you really like apricot, you better try this. Cannot stand up to Lancaster Strawberry wheat.

Had this on a beautiful night outside the ramada inn on the tip of seneca lake. Maybe it was partly the environment, but I really enjoyed this beer. Was very light and crisp, but it did have a nice underlying apricot flavor and aroma. Not overpowering, which I felt was good. Just enough to give it some body and tart. Extremely refreshing. Could have drank a 6er of these easily.

Very sweet apricot aroma. Clear golden color with some white foam. Sweet apricot taste just like the aroma. Slight dryness on the finish.

Bottle from Jeremy Lee. Small, foamy head that quickly disapated. Sweet, fruity aroma. Golden Color. Very malty start, a faint hoppy middle with a pretty strong apricot finish. Not a bad fruit beer. I’m not a big apricot fan, but a tasty brew.

Draft. Not much more than slightly sour apricot soda. Thin bodied, which Ithaca likes to call "easy drinking", but I’m not having anything of it. This stuff is difficult to drink. Theres not much of a head and hardly any lacing. Theres a bubbly carbonation to it but a medicinal aftertaste.

At the risk of being made fun of, I actually like this beer. Apricot aroma almost overwhelms, body is fuller than you would expect, and a really nice unbalanced fruit flavor. I think this beer has its place in the summertime.