Sea Dog Apricot Wheat Beer

Brewed by Sea Dog Brewing (Shipyard Brewing Co.)
Style: Fruit Beer
Topsham, Maine USA

Very cute label (huge red flag right there) pours with a nice head that did not sustain itself. Apricot aroma was strong for a minute or two but quickly gave way much like the carbonation.Are we sure this is a wheat beer? In the end it tastes like a Bud with a drop of apricot extract. Did I say the label was cute?

From bottle pours slightly hazy light amber, with lots of head. Great apricot flavor, no real finish.

Bottle. Orange amber pour. Small white head on this. Nose is pure apricot. Smells almost like a preserve rather than a sweetened jam. It’s actually rather pleasant smelling. Taste piles the apricot on top on a wheat beer. Grains, apricot, and, well, not much else. Body is light and the carbonation rather fizzy. No stickiness to this either. Some dryness towards the end, though. Finishes with larger grains/wheat noticeable and the ever present apricot flavor. Not bad but I couldn’t have more than one of these in a sitting.

The apricot was just to strong for me, tasted like mixing a fruit juice with a light american hefe 50/50. Juicy apricot flavors, sweet and lightly tart. Very watery on the palate without much depth to the beer side of it. Tastes fake and thin throughout without any solid carbonation, lifeless, like a caprisun juice drink for big kids I guess.

Poured from a 12oz bottle with a light amber sheen. What little fizz there was disappeared almost immediately. The aroma is definitely fruity, like an apricot jam (where’s my toast?). The sweet tart apricot flavor isn’t quite as robust as the aroma, but that’s probably a good thing. The flavor is nicely rounded ... if you like fruit beers, this is a decent offer. Not too obtuse. Only downside is the lack of body here. (#2769, 4/8/2007)

Bottled (Thanks omhper). Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is apricot and slight wheat. Flavour is paper, perfumed soap and that’s about it. Watery, and too biting carbonation.

Bottled (BB 12/2007)
Pale yellow color, small white head. Strong sweet aroma of apricot. Dry papery, woody flavor, a bit of wheat but not much apricot fruityness. When it is very cold, possible ok as a thirst quencher, but this is not a beer for serious beer drinking.

Golden clear colour with a weak head. Great aroma of apricot. Not so good flavour as the aroma, taste of parfume, malt and quite sweet.