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Ithaca Apricot Wheat

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23
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bottled
common

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1872.73/5.02.73/5.04.9%47.3Flute
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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 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 (1986), 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.


 kmweaver (2441), Sebastopol, California, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/510/20
Jun 18, 2007  
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.


 GriffinAvenue (396), Winchester, Massachusetts, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/511/20
Jun 17, 2007  
Draft. Pale yellow in color. Strong apricot-tangerine. Watery; not a big follow through. 1-note wonder. Sampled @ American Beer Fest in Boston.


 cheapdark (2016), Monacatootha, Pennsylvania, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/101/53/102/56/20
Jun 5, 2007  
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.


 roder60 (1020), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/57/103/515/20
Jun 3, 2007  
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.


 rocbyter (914), Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/56/102/510/20
May 27, 2007  
Very sweet apricot aroma. Clear golden color with some white foam. Sweet apricot taste just like the aroma. Slight dryness on the finish.


 dpjuart (670), Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/56/103/510/20
May 23, 2007  
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.



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