Sour Apricot Blonde

Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Apricot and tart aroma. Apricot and sour flavor with light malt. Medium bodied. Apricot and sourness linger.

Crisp and ever so slightly hazy apricot and peach coloured body with a large, four to five centimetre tall off-white head that fades very quickly and leaves nothing on top after a few seconds, similar to a soda. Aroma of bright pungent apricots with a dry, herbal quality and some strong sugars from caster sugar and the fruits themselves, with a slight hit of the malts here as well. Light-bodied; Crisp and effervescent with a lot of sweet apricots coming out at first, also with a tart quality and some nice supportive malts with a solid punch throughout. Aftertaste is both dry and soured with a lot of sweetness from the fruit, but the apricots bring out more of the tart flavours along with a good support from the malts and rich grain. Overall, a pretty nice and fruit-driven beer that shows a lot of dry, tart and soured components and less of the malty and floral aspects than I expected, with this one being much closer to a sour ale and definitely a fruit beer, and less so of a blonde ale. I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Trader Joe's in Fort Collins, Colorado on 31-January-2022 for US$1,59 sampled in my hotel room here in Charlottesville, Virginia on 19-February-2022.

Draft at Book Bar 6-30-16

Tap. Pours a tad hazy golden, small off white head, decent lacing. Aroma of heavy perfume apricots, skins. Flavor is medium tart, huge apricot flavor. Medium body. Could use some more character other than apricot

12oz can thanks to Toby. Pours out a crisp clear gold topped with a white head. Nose is nice stone fruit notes some sweet notes and a little sugar. Taste is more of the apricot sweetness along with a light tart note.

This beer is a cloudy golden color with a medium thick foamy white head that diminishes gradually to a film. Strings of lacing. Aroma of apricot, yeast and malt. Light to medium body with flavors of tart apricot, yeast and biscuit malt. The finish is mildly sour with an apricot and cherry aftertaste. Decent overall.

12 oz. can. Pours clear copper, with a medium, off-white head. The nose is distinct apricot, with some notes of saltine crackers and wet grass. Sweet and fruity, with a flat, mediocre tart flavor. Light to medium body, with a syrupy, medicinal palate. This beer has a nice apricot aroma, but is otherwise a poor kettle sour.

Dating on the bottom of the can hard to read.

It pours a hazy orange with a 1 finger head of foam that quickly shrinks to a ring around the glass.

I smell loads of apricots that impart a suggested tartness. Nothing bitter here to my nose.

Apricot tartness up front, mid palate, and through the finish. The lacto is on full throttle goodness here.

On tap at Backcountry Pizza. Pours a cloudy gold with small off white head that diminishes to nothing. Great nose of apricot and funk. Thin mouth, light apricot, nice sourness, very good.