Ithaca Apricot Wheat

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

Bottle: Poured golden amber color with not too much head. The aroma was definitely apricot. The flavor was sweet with apricot, cinnamon, and some citrus. Overall, not a bad drinker but wouldn’t recommend if something else is present.

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

12 oz bottle. Clear golden yellow with a small white head. Smelled of apricot and had some underlying aromas of wheat and malt. Flavor was mostly fruity and sweet with a faint hop bitterness. Light to medium body, actively carbonated and a sweet apricot finish. Not bad for the type of beer, not overly sweet but had a bit of a fake/extract fruit flavor.

Not too bad. If you are looking for a fruity beer you may want to try others first, however I definitely wouldnt complain about having it again. Light clear amber color with slight apricot fragrance, not over powering at all. One complaint is there was a little too much carbonation for my likes.

On tap at Delaney’s (New Haven, CT): Pours light, orange-y yellow with little to no head. Nose is light and airy, with real apricot in the effervesence. Flavor is similar. Drinkability: Clean, refreshing, and easy. Unfortunately there’s not much to it, mild really, but that’s expected for a wheat beer. Rebuy: Yes. #206 on 21112009, DG.

Smells and tastes of apricot say some. Others say the smell is there but the fruit flavor is AWOL. I’m of two minds on this beer. I see it as a cheaper version of Magic Hat’s #9.

Bottle… Mostly clear, golden ale with a small, fizzy, white head. Lots of apricot and pale grain in the aroma. The fruity, buttery flavor tips toward the sweet side of balance. Light to medium-bodied with a skim-milk mouthfeel and moderate carbonation. More sweet apricot and buttery diacetyl in the lengthy finish. Spent grain taste at the very end. Cheers to growler for splitting his bottle with me!

A pretty decent apricot beer. The wheat aspect is more of a thicker american style than european but the strong apricot flavor offsets the thick malts.