Schooners Apricot-Honey Wheat

Brewed by Schooners Grille & Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Antioch, California USA

Thanks Craig. Poured hazy golden yellow, wheat, apricot, little citrus, more grains.

Cloudy dark yellow with a fizzy white head. Strong apricot and peach aroma. Apricot and wheat taste.

Name: Apricot Wheat
Date: July 07, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: cloudy dark yellow, fine white head, drippy lace
Aroma: light wheat aroma with a hint of fruityness
Flavor: light wheat flavor followed by a very nice apricot flavor, nice sweetness pulls out the fruit flavor
Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4

On tap at the brewery. I’m not sure if this is the same beer. The brewer says its just the Apricot Wheat, no honey. Either way, its the same idea. Gold color with a small white head. Aroma is straight apricot and a little buttery. Taste is the same. Buttery bread and fresh apricots. I would have prefered more subltety with the flavor, but if you really like apricots, then you’ll like this beer. If you don’t, pass.

On tap at the Schooner’s Brewery/Restaurant in Antioch. Pours a hazy gold with white head. It sure has a solid apricot fruit aroma. It seems to be faint malt or wheated malt sweetness behind the apricot. The flavor is like the nose with big apricot fruit flavors that become tart and slightly sour into the finish. There’s some grainy maltiness hiding behind the fruit. Smells like freshly cut apricots.