Apricot Ale
Pyramid Breweries in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.87
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Full of big, fresh apricot notes, this untraditional take on a traditional unfiltered wheat beer invigorates the body and soul with its smooth, refreshing finish.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Smells like apricot. Tastes like peach and apricot. Frankly not the best I’ve had, but for what it was it was decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2006
at 23:43
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 6
I was surprised by this brew. Nice combination of the fruitiness of apricots and citrus with a hefeweizen feel. It poured a goldish hue with a nice white head. Taste was well balanced and suited my palate very well. Probably my favorite fruit beer to date.
Tried
on 25 Feb 2006
at 18:33
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
I rally can not see how this beer get so trashed by so many raters here. Not macho enough for you? I have had this one a number of times and have been consistently pleased with it. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy medium gold color with a medium sized yellow-tan head. The aroma is wonderfully strong with sweet apricot. The flavor is very sweet and strong apricot with a decent light malty undertone. The beer turns dry on the flavor towards the finish. While the malts are not particularly strong they manage to lend a fair amount of "beer" flavor to this one so that the fruit is not the totality of the brew.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jan 2006
at 11:44
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle, from Wild Oats, Hinsdale, IL. Ah, fruit beers. I try and try ’em, trying to attain some sort of satisfaction. Usually I don’t, but what the hell. I’ll try anything five or six times. This pours out a bit cloudy and, yes, apricot color. There was a big fluffy weizen hed at first, but it was completely gone in less than a minute. Smell is a bit like a fruit-scented soap. Flavor is a little more encouraging, like an apricot marmalade, then a dry fruity wine. Gassy, and kind of overfilling; and not very refreshing. I suspect a tap or cask version might do better, as the bubbles really get in the way. I know I’m rating this lower than some of the crappier pale lagers in my life, but even a crappy pale lager can refresh you in the right circumstances.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2006
at 20:29
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pour is a hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is deffinatly apricot. Flavor is also overpowering amounts of apricot, not that that is a bad thing. This beer puts the fruit in fruit beer. Reminds me of Grandma’s jam.
Tried
on 10 Dec 2005
at 16:26
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
A pleasing fruit beer, with a slightly bitter apricotty aftertaste, not sweet tasting at all. Hazy pale amber color,probably due ti the Weisen part of the beer. Not much of a head.
Tried
on 02 Dec 2005
at 16:07
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hazy straw-colored body, thin off-white head. Big sweet apricot aroma. The body? Well, apricot, of course, with little else. Maybe a touch bready. Otherwise, this is totally dominated by apricots, and apricot haters will obviously hate this beer. But it wasn’t all that bad.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2005
at 21:54
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
An unclear orange beer with a small disappearing white head. The aroma is dominated by apricot, with some wheat notes in the background. The flavor is slightly sweet and again dominated by apricot, but the body is thin.
Tried
on 06 May 2005
at 02:36
7.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle Pours a hazy pale light orange beige with a fizzy, short lived head. Weak spotty lacint. The apricot aroma is very forwad, a bit overpowering of the base wheat. Flavor is more of a balance between the fruitiness and soft wheat flavor. The carbonation is quite lively and it has a nice smooth unfiltered feel. Aftertaste is soft, even buttery. Very easy on the hops and very little bitterness at the end. I like this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2005
at 23:21
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 4
Sampled draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm.
Cloudy orange. Sweet apricot jam aroma. The malt profile is clean, hard and simplistic with no softness. The apricot flavour is balanced, not overly sweet, but somewhat acidic. The poor malt structure however kills this beer, and creates a metallic, empty finish.
Cloudy orange. Sweet apricot jam aroma. The malt profile is clean, hard and simplistic with no softness. The apricot flavour is balanced, not overly sweet, but somewhat acidic. The poor malt structure however kills this beer, and creates a metallic, empty finish.
Tried
on 14 Jun 2004
at 13:53