Apricot Wheat
Ithaca Beer Co. in Ithaca, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
5.95
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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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5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours a clear gold with a small, white ring. Aroma of burnt hair, DMS and dried apricot with a slight note of fruity gummy bears. Taste is soda like with a bit of apricot fruit and light DMS. Light bubbles and a dry mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2009
at 12:01
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
This wheat beer poured a clear light yellow colour with a rocky, white head. To the nose there are scents of apricots and cream. First taste is slightlu over-carbonatred with flavours of apricots and cream. Finish is slightly watery with the apricot lingering. Palate is almost oily with nothing but the flavour of apricots.
Tried
on 30 Oct 2008
at 21:32
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy yellow-golden color with a small beige head that faded quickly and left no lacing. The aroma was strong sweet apricot and peach. The flavor was tangy with strong sweet apricot, peach, sugar and apricot pits. The finish was very long sweet tangy apricot and peach. Medium body. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2007
at 11:36
3.2/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2007
at 15:43
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Lightly hazed blonde with a thin white head. Light clean apricot aroma. In moouth, a smooth apricot ale, but the fruit is rather artificial. Light bodied quaffer. Free taster. August 26,2006 at Greene’s Tavern.
Tried
on 27 Aug 2006
at 20:23
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Well usually I stay away from wheat beers with fruit because usually one could barely taste the fruit. Hwever, this is the opposite, too much apricot. Bottle poured budweiser color wiht som lacing and visble carbonation bubbles. The aroma is all apricot or more like apricot syrup. This almost smells too much like apricot. Same in the taste no beer flavors, just apricot. Feel is slimy for such a light bodied brew. That apricot aftertaste stays for a while as well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2006
at 16:46
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Courtesy of a travelling co-worker. Murky golden color with a medium off-white fizzy head that disappears pretty quickly. Nice apricot aroma, along with a bit of malt. Light-bodied and fruity with apricot being the dominant flavor, however there is a strange sweetness/staleness in the background that ruins it somewhat. The finish is fruity, wheaty and short. Alright in some respects but the off flavors hurt this beer too much.
Tried
on 15 May 2006
at 10:59
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
golden amber with a bit of a haze, the head was a small white bubble. It has a sweet fruit aroma most likely from the apricot. The taste is very nice since it starts off with that wheatie grain taste yet finishes sweet with the fruit.
Tried
on 13 May 2006
at 14:15
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Aroma of apricots. Taste of apricots. On top of a wheat beer. Very smooth and sweet. Refreshing summer beer with nice carbonation probably best drunk cold and quick.
Tried
on 10 Aug 2005
at 20:10
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Slightly hazy orange colour, and a fantastic apricot aroma. Very wheaty and very apricoty...if you buy the beer, because it sounds great, you'll love it! It handles its job as being an apricot wheat tremendously!
Tried
on 24 Jan 2003
at 20:23