Ithaca Apricot Wheat

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

This was the most apricot tasting beer I have ever tried. It was good, although I only had it from the bottle. I will try this again and get the full appreciation from a glass. Give it a try.

I was very leery about trying this, as I do not generally like fruit beers, but I found this beer to be very enjoyable. No head. Very pale transparent apricot color. Aroma and flavor explode with apricot. The nicest surprise was the dryness. Though the beer is extremely fruity, it is not all that sweet and not cloying at all.

12oz bottle. Poured a light to medium and hazy yellow color with a smaller sized white head. Aromas of mainly strong apricots. Tastes of lighter apricots, wheat, and fruity. Medium sweet with a thin body.

Had on tap. this beer smells pleaseant but the taste is overpoweringly fruity

a sample. It had apricot aroma masking a light bread like note. Poured a straw yellow color maybe a little more golden. taste was initally wheat, and mild wheat at that, but a mild apricot flavor finished out which kinda seemed forced, as it seemed to linger in after taste for a while. glad it was only a sample.

This is a bit too wet. I like the sweet dry apricots but the wheat flavor does not seem to mesh well. I realize this is a predominately wheat beer but it smacks a bit on a bitter barley side for me.

Bottle. Right off the bat I must say I quite like apricots so I’m predisposed to liking this. Pours a clear pale yellow-gold with lots of bubbles and a small diminishing white head. Mild aroma is mostly apricots followed by grain along with some yeast and faint hops -- just O.K. Slightly watery flavour starts with a big apricot taste followed by wheat and light hops in the finish. Light bodied. For what it is it’s decent, it would make a pleasant summer patio beer -- overall it’s just average.

On tap at the brewery. Pours a clear yellow/gold with a white head. The beer is filtered, so much of the aroma and flavor associated with a typical wheat beer is not present in this brew. This beer has a pleasant aroma of fresh apricots. The apricots also come through in the flavor. Very easy to drink. A nice summer beer.