Imperial Apricot Bu
de Garde Brewing in Tillamook, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Berliner Weisse - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.54
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared on the booze bus during RBWG 2015. Cheers! Pours cloudy orange with a foamy, white topping. Hugely sour, ample tart apricots. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Quenching finish, quite acidic, more tart apricots, lemons. Quite robust. Decent overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2022
at 22:40
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle shared @ Dangerous Bottleshare 10th Anniversary. Thanks to Daawi for bringing this! Pours hazy orange with a quickly diminishing white head. Aromas of apricots, oak, vanilla, floral notes, dessert wine, lactic sourness, candied apricots. Taste is very "jammy", lots of lactic tartness, oaky notes, juice, sparkly notes. This beer did NOT disappoint.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 17:19
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ ZZT 2016-1, small sample. Thanks all for sharing! Cloudy amber color, short frothy head. Aroma of big apricot, apricot skin, latex gloves. Medium sour in taste, apricot. Bit off-balance and not my favorite fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2016
at 01:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Apricot & Peach Imperial Bu versions sampled. Thanks to MarcoDL for the Peach version. Both 750 ml. bottles sampled @ ZZT 2016-1.Apricot: Very hazy orange, fizzing away white head. Nose is big aspirin sourness, sour medicine, basic lactic & vinegar sourness, some fruity apricot in the back. Taste is aspirin sour upfront, puckering, vinegar, basic lactic sour, lots of aspirin,… Sour, vinegar. There is fruity apricot in the back. Very simple, overly heavy on vinegar & aspirin sourness. Okay but I have had definitely better from De Garde. 3.7/5 Peach: Quite similar. Super milky orange with no head. Smell is once again massive sour puckering aspirin, overly lactic, low vinegar, fruit is barely present here. Taste is also very sour puckering vinegar, aspirin, lemon juice, basic lactic,… Puckering & low carbonation. Fruit is less present here & barely there. This one was a bit lesser for me. 3.6/5 Overall both strongly failed my expectations.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2016
at 02:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Apricot jam colour, dissipating white head. Apricot aroma, latex gloves, apricot pie (abrikozenvlaai). Light sour flavour, citric acid, apricot and light malts. Finish apricot, lactic and citric acid.
(from 75cL bottle @ ZZT 2016-1. Thanks for sharing, 77ships)
(from 75cL bottle @ ZZT 2016-1. Thanks for sharing, 77ships)
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2016
at 13:03
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled from bottle @ ZZT 2016-1. Hazy yellow color, average sized white head. Aroma is sour, apricot, unripe fruits. Taste is incredibly sour, sour unripe fruits, apricot in the background. Suitable body and carbonation. Nice, but too sour for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2016
at 12:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle received in trade. Thank you troganmi. Pours very hazy apricot deep yellow with a small frothy and fizzy white head that quickly dissipates without leaving much trace on the glass. Smell is fruity with crackers, lemon juice, apricot puree, yoghurt, minerals, lemon zest and hints of rubber. Taste is sour and heavy fruity. Mouthfeel is dry, tart mouth-puckering and light to medium bodied. Finish is heavy sour with bundles upon bundles of apricot puree. Love the apricot character but this is a bit too sour in my opinion.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2016
at 18:06
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at De garde release. pours out a hazy apricot golden topped with a small head. nose is musty apricot lemon some vanilla yogurt sweetness. taste is more of the nice heavy apricot tart pucker lemon and a nice end. De garde is not afraid to hit the fruit. Very nice work.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Feb 2016
at 11:29