Pomology: Apricot
Foundation Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Series|
Score
7.12
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Grains
Pilsner, Maine-Grown Flaked Wheat
Hops
Columbus
Yeast
House Belgian
ABV
6.2%
IBUs
25
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle a tight home in Canaan, NH. Picked up at the brewery. Pours clear honey-gold, highly effervescent, with a billowing, frothy white head. Engaging aroma, nice apricot, peach, understated citrus. Light sweet flavour with sturdy acidity, pleasant tart apricot, melon, lemon. Light bodied with lively, massaging carbonation. Tight finish, dry and quenching, more true apricot, moderate citric tartness. This one really delivers. Not super complex, but really drinkable and with great apricot character.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours a hazy bright-orange-gold color with a medium foamy white head that diminishes gradually to a film. Sticky strings of lace. Aroma of apricot, yeast and malt. Medium body with flavors of tart apricot, mildly funky yeast and doughy malt. The finish is tart with an apricot aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
CLW (17000) reviewed Pomology: Apricot from Foundation Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500 ml purchased at 7 Eleven, Kittery. Bright golden color, full fluffy head. Aroma is very lactic, zesty citrus, white bread. The lactic character is the most predominate element in this sour ale. Apricot, and maybe tangerine is noticed. The yeast seems kind of like Brettanomyces. Not bad but very lactic.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Cloudy rich yellow with largish foamy white head, faint acidic apricot aroma, high carbonation, sour taste with apricot flavor, thin body, long sour finish. Not bad, not spectacular.
Drake (22940) reviewed Pomology: Apricot from Foundation Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Keg at the brewery. Hazy orange, large creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of fresh apricot, apricot pits, apricot skin, pale malt. Taste is tart apricot, pale malt, a bit of toast.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
375mL bottle drunk 11/6/16. Forgot to write down when this was bottled, but I recall it spending quite a long time in the bottle (3-6 months, I believe) before being released.
Good clarity throughout this very pale, flaxen-gold body. White head is flecked with yellow and fades fairly rapidly to cover/ring.
The nose is very dusty, musty and lactic, though not overly acidic. Light cheesecloth and softer, but still tart apricot notes mix with a bit of bright, citrusy brett to enliven things somewhat. Biscuity, fairly sparse malts add a hint of dry vanilla and cracker notes. No alcohol or flaw.
In the flavor, at first and somewhat recurring is a strange, almost chemical note, rather harsh but not dominant thankfully. It’s masked by the fruity, dry, very acidic apricot notes and moderate cheesy, yogurty lactic acids. There’s some texture from the biscuity malts, but they’re very dry and minimal. Carbonation is quite fizzy and there’s a bit of oiliness to the palate. Interesting beer, maybe just didn’t need as much aging.