Dogfish Head ApriHop

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Milton, Delaware USA

Pours orange. Nose is citrus, peach, apricot, sweet sugar, malt. Flavor is fruity, citrusy, pine-ish, sweet sugary caramel, peach and apricot. Don’t care for this much.

Bright, clear orange. Slowly upfloating bubbles. Big ole puffy head with staying power. Awesome. Overwhelming apricot aroma. Sweet and flowery. Hops are an accent -- may have softened. Some bready yeast and ale malt. The taste is mostly sweet, pungent apricot (naturally). Hops bring up the rear in a flowery way, but fade quickly leaving apricot & peach aftertaste. Way too cloying and sweet, like Smirnoff Ice. Creamy and bold feel. A little gruff and ashy. Substantial. It’s #9 with an extra hop character. A noble failure.

Not quite sure what is happeneing here, the mix is a test of a day of reckoining and belliegernt wilderbeast brawling it out to the end, exhillarating and fasanacting all at the same tme, Marvelous.

Bottle 02/09. Pours hazy, deep orange into Stone IPA glass. Negligable head. Nose is dried apricots, some bitter and floral hops. Taste is biting sour apricots, citrus hop undetone, and a slight resemblance of a sweet white fruit wine. Reminds me alot of one of the local winery’s peach wine’s, minus the peach add appricots and hops...never-the-less that is what my brain is triggered to. Very different...reach for ’a’ bottle, not a six-pack (my recommendation).

Dissapointed with this. Not much depth here and no surprises. the apricots do not do much for the aroma as you can barely smell it and really overall the rest of the beer is like that as well. Nothing outstanding about this beer.

Bottle. One finger head on orange body. Aroma is ripe apricots. Flavor is juicy apricot sweetness, malt, a little tart with some bitterness. The other flavors don’t seem to complement the dominant apricot flavor that well.

Bottle. Poured coppery red with a small lively white head. Aroma of fresh apricot and floral hops. Slightly sweet fruity taste, offset nicely by the hops that follow. Alcohol is well-hidden. Not overly complex, but pretty enjoyable and drinkable. A little pricey, however. Good stuff.

Interesting, but I just don’t think this style lends much to additions. The apricot isn’t super obvious, it just seems to add a sweetness that upsets the balance or expected hop presence.