Pyramid Audacious Apricot Ale

Brewed by Pyramid Breweries
Style: Fruit Beer
Portland, Oregon USA

The 12 ounce bottle poured a slightly hazy golden apricot orange colored beverage with a small fizzy white head that was gone completely in 60 seconds and left no lacing on the glass. There was nothing subtle about this one ... the aroma was purely sweet apricot, nothing else. The body was medium-light with lively carbonation and a thin, watery texture. The flavor started off sweet but was not overly so. In fact, it became tart and slightly acidic as the flavor matured on the palate. It had a medium finish.

Best by date September 2006, Sampled July 2006
When poured vigorously this beer produces a frothy, fairly large bubbled, initially 1.5-finger thick, pale, tan tinted, off-white colored head. The beer is a hazy, orangish gold color. The aroma is simplisticly all apricot, nice and fleshy but unmistakably fruity apricot. If you really dig for it you might get some notes of biscuit-like malt, but this is subtle and far in the background.

The beer has a sweetness up front that is not cloying. The sweetness accentuates the peach-like apricot flavors that dominate the flavor profile of this beer. A touch of wheat derived acidity finishes this beer off and again serves to accentuate the fruit notes. There is even some noticeable bitterness in the finish (though light) as well as some prickly carbonation, which helps to balance the fruit and grain sweetness. Straight forward and simplistic in its flavors, yet it strikes a refreshing balance.

I have not had this beer in years, but my wife saw it while walking through Trader Joes, and I figured what the hell and picked up a six pack. Ever since I started drinking beer, and even during my period of not liking any type of fruit beer, I have always found this beer to be nice, quaffable and enjoyable. A work of artistic brewing, perhaps not, but it is a great beer to have well chilled in the fridge when it is 110*F (45*C) out.

Hazy honey color- decent head – dried sweet apricot nose and taste not good but not hoHazy honey color- decent head – dried sweet apricot nose and taste not good but not horrible for what it is tying to be

Sampled at the Pyramid Alehouse in downtown Sacramento. A hazy orange brew smelled tasted, and even felt like apricots, althouhg the fuzziness may have been my imagination. right and refreshng, not a lot of complexity.

Sweet aroma and taste with a little wheat mixed in with the apricot. Almost no head. Nice to mix in with a couple other light beers. I wouldn’t want to drink more than one in a sitting.

Pours a slightly hazy gold color. thin foamy head that disipates very quickly. Heavy apricot aroma. Lots of apticot flavor with a little bitterness. Almost no carbonation.

I hade the Ale version of this brew. Tastse like beer flavored apricot soda. I had one and loved it so I got a couple of six packs, it took me a while to finish. A fun beer, but after a few it gets to be a little to much. Very fruity aroma and flavor.

Huge aroma! Smelled like a real apricot! However it didn’t taste like one. Maybe too much carbonation? Drinks like a light beer with a slightly smooth, hardly noticable fruit. Buy it for your gf or wife and just tell her to smell it!