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Ithaca Apricot Wheat

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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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 thenick (744), North Bellmore, New York, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/512/20
Sep 2, 2009  
Bottle. Pours a cloudy orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is a bit of wheat and a lot of apricot - at least it seems like a natural flavor instead of the artificially-flavored beers I’ve seen. Taste is a wheat characteristic with a little sweetness, then it moves full-bore into apricot. It has a crisp and rather clean finish that I liked. It’s not spectacular by any means, but it’s an easy-drinking summer beer. There’s a place for those.


 Jblauvs (549), Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Aug 25, 2009  
Pours a cloudy orange with some slight off-white head. aroma is of slight fruitiness and some wheat. Flavor is much of the same, Fruitiness and wheat, Pleasant but a little bland. Refreshing crisp finish


DeeBee21 (45), NH, New Hampshire, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Aug 25, 2009  
Hazy golden orange pour, thin almost not existent head. yeasty, with a very fresh sweet apricot aroma. Taste is very similar. The yeast and fruity apricot at front that holds out to a little fruity spice at the finish. Very easily drinkable and refreshing great in the warm weather. A reliable pleasure of mine.


 JaBier (1212), Capital City, Ohio, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
Aug 22, 2009  
Bottle sample. Cloudy orange pour with no head. Wheaty aroma with sugar and fruit. Sugary apricot flavor with a hint of welcome tartness.


 shigadeyo (2263), Harrison, Ohio, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Jul 22, 2009  

7/22/2009: Ithaca Apricot Wheat has a fresh, ripe apricot aroma. The beer is a golden yellow color, mostly cloudy, and capped with a small off-white head. The flavor is lightly sweet and fruity with a yeasty middle accented by apricot and then it finished with a delicately spiced wheatiness. This beer is medium-light but still smooth and has enough body to be satisfying. Overall it is refreshing, balanced, and has enough apricot to be pleasing without distracting from the characteristics of the wheat ale.

12 fl. oz. bottle (Best Before: October 2009) from Tmoney99. Thanks Tom! Rating #174 for this beer.


smooch (97), Sylvania, Ohio, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20
Jul 20, 2009  
This is pretty good. Not amazing, but the apricot is there and still some beer flavor. Seems to change quickly when it warms.


 unclemike (834), Ft. Riley, Kansas, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/55/103/510/20
Jul 17, 2009  
tap Light yellow, clear pour with virtually no head. Thin nose of apriocots, bread and other citrus. Really thin taste, though not too sweet which is the downfall of others in the style. Slight bitter finish



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