4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
12 oz. bottle as "Kennebunkport Apricot Wheat," from Trader Joe’s. Fresh apricot smell is a good start. Dark orange color, a fizzy fading head. Smell in the glass more resembles apricot Jell-o, though. Taste falls into kind of apricot "drink" unsupported by any beer character. Can’t tell that this is a wheat beer. I just drank it down and put it out of mind. Maybe apricot works better if there’s some pulp in it?
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2007
at 21:04
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle (as Kennebunkport Apricot Wheat). Apricot aroma. Orange tinged gold color with a decent white head. Nearly medium body, and moderate, near creamy, carbonation. Wheat flavor with apricot. It is what it purports to be. The finish is apricot and doughy? A clean, slightly sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2007
at 23:49
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
Strong blueberry aroma when the cap popped. In the glass the aroma is blueberry and some wheat. Orange tinged gold color with a white head that didn’t last long. Thin to medium bodied with moderate carbonation. The flavor is blueberry with standard wheat. It’s not super, but it is decent. The finish is very lightly sweet with something like blueberry skins. Clean, refreshing. Can’t say crisp, though. Surprisingly tasty.
Earlier Rating: 6/6/2007 Total Score: 2.9
Open the bottle and smell blueberries from two feet away. In the glass some wheat seems detectable, but it’s all about blueberries. Light amber color with a decent white head. Tastes of blueberry skin, then wheat, then blueberry juice, finally a burst of sweetness that settles down to a blueberry mouth coat, and what could be a light hop bitter, but might well be more blueberry skin. Seems to be done with flavor additive rather than berries in the brew process. At least it’s "natural flavor added". Ok for a change of pace. Definitely not for constant consumption.
Earlier Rating: 6/6/2007 Total Score: 2.9
Open the bottle and smell blueberries from two feet away. In the glass some wheat seems detectable, but it’s all about blueberries. Light amber color with a decent white head. Tastes of blueberry skin, then wheat, then blueberry juice, finally a burst of sweetness that settles down to a blueberry mouth coat, and what could be a light hop bitter, but might well be more blueberry skin. Seems to be done with flavor additive rather than berries in the brew process. At least it’s "natural flavor added". Ok for a change of pace. Definitely not for constant consumption.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Sep 2007
at 20:02
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz. bottle from Trader Joes (as Kennebunkport IPA). BB May 2008. Aroma of caramel malt and faint bitter hop. Reddish copper color with a beige head that stayed. Medium bodied with creamy carbonation. A malt sweetness somewhere between light and dark. What is often found in "red" ales. Hop is floral rather than bitter. Not bad. Finish is more sweet than dry, and finally a little bitterness shows up. It’s fairly flavorful, just simple. An IPA for those who lean towards fewer IBUs. Upon reflection it reminds me of Badger Fursty Ferret in color and palate.
Earlier Rating: 6/4/2007 Total Score: 2.8
Nice resin hop aroma. Copper color with a decent off-white head. A bit thin bodied, floral hop, some malt, and an interesting flavor note like nuts. The finish is decently bitter, but the interesting flavor hangs on too long. Not bad. Not the best.
Earlier Rating: 6/4/2007 Total Score: 2.8
Nice resin hop aroma. Copper color with a decent off-white head. A bit thin bodied, floral hop, some malt, and an interesting flavor note like nuts. The finish is decently bitter, but the interesting flavor hangs on too long. Not bad. Not the best.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2007
at 19:19
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 5
Faint wheat bread and butter aroma. Golden color, very clear, brief medium sized head. Wheat taste and finish, little character.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2007
at 19:31
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Not much head, but its actually apricot in color....pure and clean in the amber waves of beer...distinct apricot on the sniff, like fresh squeezed (extract) apricot....clean palate, makes Frank salivate...easy to drink, but for a wheat beer it’s quite un-cloudy....a bit of malt backbone, but blended to carry the apricot to just the right balance, also a tad heavy for a wheat beer, but apricots tend to be thick in flavor and thickness, at least in the nectar form, so it’s all good...anyway...yum!...and Frank’s arrival date:...4-24-07...welcome back to Jerzee with a brew to you..:)
Tried
on 21 Aug 2007
at 04:11
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
bottle - Pours clear yellow with a thin head. It smells of raspberries. Who would have thought?! It tastes mainly of raspberries with a little malt character and not much else. It seems that a watery, bland beer has had a substantial amount of raspberry extract added to it. It’s better than this beer would have been without the raspberries, but much worse than it could have been.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2007
at 22:16
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is apricot, fruit. Flavour is apricot, hop, wheat. ok beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2007
at 00:28
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. (thx Furseth) Clear, golden pour with an off-white head. Apricot-fruity nose with nothing else to find. The flavor is quite wheaty, but with lots of apricot as well. Sweet, fruity finish. Medium bodied beer which is quite refreshing, but I couldn’t be drinking much of it. (070608)
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2007
at 03:47
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Small light brown head fades quickly. Deep dark red barely translucent body. Sweetish sugary licorice aroma with no resistance. Deep dryish licorice and roasty caramel taste. Watery mouthfeel. No real aftertaste. Kind of boring and one-dimensional. (0.355l bottle at Oliver Twist.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2007
at 16:11