Cascade Apricot Ale

Brewed by Cascade Brewing @ Raccoon Lodge
Style: Sour Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

Pours a reddish orange gold color with a towering off white head. The aroma is sour and peachy with fresh apricots, obviously. A little hint of bread and wood that dries it out a bit. The flavor is very sour with a bright taste of fresh apricots and finishes with a hint of oak. Very effervescent and fruity. Full flavored, yet light and refreshing. An elusive combo. This is a very nice beer for any occasion. I can’t get over how much this tastes like fresh, ripe fruit.

GABF 2009, day 1: Very interesting beer with a nice level of tartness. Light-ish and very refreshing. Spritzy carbonation. Apricot element is very subltle. Other notes of fruit in there as well, such as pear and tangy lemon.

Bottle from City Beer Store in SF. $20, wow this is expensive. Pours orangish-copper with a small white head and average retention. Aroma is tart apricot, mildly sweet pale malt, and oak. Flavor is both tart and a little sweet with lots of apricot, peach, oak, pale malt, and sugar. I don’t consider apricot one of the better fruits to make a beer with, but this is good. I like a little sweetness to balance sour ales. Body is medium and palate has a nice acidic sharpness to it.

Bottle. [thank you, after4ever]
Pours very pale amber or just darkish golden. Small, frothy, off.white head that settles as a thin creamy film. Milky aroma, some youghurt, lots of fresh juicy apricot, light oranges. Mild tartness. Low carbonation, quite oily mouthfeel. Flavour is very dry and quite sour at first. Lots of oaky character, some sweet, sugary malts. Good tart fruity notes, lots of apricot. Very lactic in it’s tartness. Elegantly composed with a good balance between the sweetness and tartness.

750ml bottle with about a year of age on it. Pours cloudy, dusky orange-amber color with a small head of smooth, off-white foam that fades quickly. Virtually no lacing shows on the glass. The aroma is sweet-tart, big on juicy apricot, with notes of caramelized sugars and candied blond malts. Woody and somewhat lactic, there’s a light bretty funk that lends some needed dryness. Flavors are similarly structured, sweeter than I really care for, with loads of sugary, bronzed malt. Still, there’s a decent amount of tart fruit, apricot leading the charge with perhaps a secondary hint of nectarine. Buggy wood shows on the finish. The palate is big and sugary, moderately carbonated and lightly cloying on the back end. This is not what I was expecting or hoping for. Decent brew.

Shared by ucusty. Nice soft copper amber pour with a two finger sticky offwhite head. The nose is jumping with apricot and peach character, sweet creamy character, tart fruit skins, mild spicy phenolic character. Flavor has a mild peach skin tartness to it, crisp bite, nice peach/apricot flavor with some showings of honey. Palate is tart.

Bottle shared by ucusty. Thanks dude. This was a really tasty sour and it hit the spot. Nose of peach skin, apricot, wild yeast, oak. Flavor is tart and tasty. Finishes dry.

Thanks to reuben for sharing. Golden pour with vigorous white head. Apricot sour, is tart, fruity, a little sweet and has some oak notes. Not sure if I could wait to age this if I could get a bottle of this.