Castlebrite Apricot Ale
Dragonmead Brewery in Warren, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
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Anders37 (30391) reviewed Castlebrite Apricot Ale from Dragonmead Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample @ GABF 2019. Pours a golden orange color with a white head. Has a fruity wheat malty apricot aroma. Fruity wheat malty apricot flavor. Has a fruity wheat malty apricot finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 10/20/2016. Pours fairly hazy/cloudy golden orange color with a small fairly dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of lightly tart apricot, peach, pear, apple, wheat, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of apricot and bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of big lightly tart apricot, peach, pear, apple, wheat, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey, herbal, light pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy bitterness and light fruit tartness on the finish; with lingering notes of apricot, peach, pear, apple, wheat, biscuit, herbal, pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Very nice robustness and balance of apricots, bready malt, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitter/tartness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp/dry, bready/grainy, and lightly sticky/acidic balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.1%. Overall this is a very nice fruited pale wheat ale. All around nice robustness and balance of apricots, bready malt, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Castlebrite Apricot Ale from Dragonmead Brewery 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
2004 draught. A hazy apricot orange, translucent with a small white head. Aroma of deep, rich apricots, some light wheat and a hint of hops and yeast. So far so good. Flavor is very chewy and meaty, it’s like they left the apricots in there and just ground them up. The wheat and apricots mix well and create a chewy texture, with an almost cheesy like flavor. Finishes pretty quickly though with some papery tasting hops on the end, somewhat watery but overall I enjoyed this one a good amount.