Bottle: Clear gold pour with a moderate sized creamy beige head. Smells like, well... apricot juice. Taste is again the fruity apricot nectar, just like I remember them when picked straight from the tree. Some light hops and more fruity sweetness. Just the right amount of carbonation. Good, for what it is (more of a fruit juice than a beer).

An average pour produces a three finger thick, pale, cream colored head. The beer is a pale amber, copper color that shows a brilliantly clear, full gold color when held up to the light. The aroma smells of tart apricot flesh up front, but then gets a full, concentrated almost jam like, apricot character in the middle and finish that really dominates the nose. Perhaps a hint of toasty grain is noticeable, but I may just be imagining this last bit. Definitely a one-dimensional character to the nose.

Quite sweet with an accompanying sticky, fullness and body. Of course the dominant flavor here is of apricots; ripe, sugar added, apricot preserves just about describes the flavor of this apricot soda, errr I mean beer. This only has a faint tartness that seems to accentuated the apricot notes a bit. The apricot flavor, while one dimensional in its focus on the fruit, still has a nice full fruit flavor to it.

Obviously there is not a lot going on with this beer. Apricot is the name of the game and it does a good job of delivering that specific character. It is too sweet and too thick though to be refreshing, which might not have been half bad.

Purchased: Papago Brewing, Scottsdale AZ

Pours a nice clear golden color with a lasting white head. Smell is sweet apricots and malt. Sugary. Taste is sweet, apricot candy like. Nice and bubbly and sweet and lightly tart in the finish. Very italian soda like, but enjoyable and a bit short of cloying. Tasty.

Bottle: Poured a bright golden color ale with a large pure white foamy head with good retention with some lacing. Aroma consists of real apricot without any fake syrup as well as some subtle sour notes. Taste is again dominated by some nice real apricot taste without the domination of the fake syrupy fruit stuff you sometime find in those beers. Great carbonation with a somewhat full body. I really enjoyed this for what it was and wouldn’t mind having a more regular access to this beer.

Golden of color with a small white head. An aroma with notes of sweets, apricot and sour notes. A flavor of apricot, peach, sweets and sour notes.