Chalky fruit ale starts fine with sweet peach cobbler aroma, but washed out apricot acidity, bitter phenol hopping, and diacetyl maize-wheat backdrop ruin momentum to dismal laminated finish. Chintzy blueberry-nectar reminder barely suffices.
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DOGFISH HEAD APRIHOP
Enticingly full-bodied copper-toned India Pale Ale offshoot scours dried apricot palate with embittered orange peel zest to deep-grained bottom. Sharp fruity hop signature gains perfumed floral timbre and ethyl alcohol rigidity while complex finish allows tobacco, tealeaf, and hay notes to resonate beneath.
HEARTLAND APRICOT SUMMER ALE
ITHACA APRICOT WHEAT
Lingered dried apricot souring, scurried peach-raspberry-banana sweetness, and piquant honeyed floral rush create hard candied butterscotch illusion for friskily dry-hopped American wheat beer. Ripe peachiness oddly edged out by phenol plasticity at buttery popcorn finish, though citric zing remains.