The Apricot
de Garde Brewing in Tillamook, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.64
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Another new addition to our 'The' series of beers. This melds multiple years of spontaneous coolship beer from our barrels and introduces fresh apricots from Baird Family Orchards to the composition in secondary oak tanks. Further fermentation and aging for several more months prior to bottling provide a complexity that only grew during its natural conditioning in bottle for an additional five months. Ready now, this presents a sizable apricot impression with an intriguing fruity spice from the inclusion of over half of the pits along with fruit flesh, with an earthy close and prickly acidity. Mature Brett character weaves into the flavor and aroma along with old oak and forest character.
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8/10
Suspicious cap and some flowery notes but besides a tart finish still nice super apricot.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2022
at 19:42
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle thanks to Erik! Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aromas of apricots, lightly herbal, perfumey, oaky, citrussy, lactose. Taste has lots of apricots, skin, lactic, sweet lactose kinda vibe, estery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours a cloudy gold with small white head that lasts. The aroma is stone fruit, oak, floral, lemon zest. Thin body, apricot flesh, oak, light funk, very tart.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2019
at 22:53
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Flaska från Mikkeller bottleshop, dryga året gammal. Smådisig blekgul med kritvit krona. Funk, mineral, stenfrukt, aprikoskärnor. Fin syrlighet från fruktkärnor med ett djup som drar lite grann åt vinägerhållet. Väldigt gott, men hade kanske varit piggare och fräschare att dricka färsk och ge aprikosen lite mer spelutrymme. Här skyms den undan något i fylligheten från syran. Fortfarande väldigt gott.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2019
at 10:14
7/10
Olive juice apricot basil.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2019
at 22:38
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Tasting at Oakes' Manor, corked and capped; bottled 9/18
Cloudy blond colour. Wonderful aroma of apricot, mild funk, light armpit. Dry, moderately sour, lightly sweet, bit of cheese/yeast, cellar character; the final is rather short.
Very good.
Cloudy blond colour. Wonderful aroma of apricot, mild funk, light armpit. Dry, moderately sour, lightly sweet, bit of cheese/yeast, cellar character; the final is rather short.
Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2019
at 19:45
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Apricot fuzzy candy. Cloudy orange with a small white head. Tart and candied apricot with a nice tart hit.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jan 2019
at 04:33
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750mL bottle, pours a cloudy golden yellow with a medium white head. Aroma exudes intense bright apricots upfront, with a touch of oak, and minor acidity. Flavour is along the same lines, with bright apricots, light-to-moderate acidity, and a touch of oak. Acidic, but pleasantly so -- the apricots are intense. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2019
at 04:30
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Opaque and flat-looking, with no head. This has a big apricot aroma, On the palate, lots of apricot, with a lots of tartness. There's a nice vinous hop note, I swear, but it might just be a fruit expression. Tart finish, and the fruit really brings a nice balancing sweetness.
Tried
on 25 Jan 2019
at 04:30
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle from Mikkeller Bottleshop. Pours unclear orange with brief, white head. Funky with oak, puckering tart apricot and some citrus. Very tart, but still quite good balance. Light and nice to drink. Good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2019
at 20:27