Apricot Sour
Red Collar Brewing Co.

Bought this like two years ago in BC. Good Apricot sour. Aged a little with the refermentation cause it popped and bubbled out when I opened it but no yeasty taste when drinking. Solid apricot solid. Orangish color and sour, what more can I say.

 

 

Poured into a weizen glass. Pours a hazy, medium straw-gold with a half finger white head that dissipates to a thick film with light lacing. Aroma of wheat and apricot; slightly floral. Flavor is wheat, tart apricot, lactobacillus, citrus. Finishes tart with light apricot and wheat. Medium bodied with light carbonation. A straightforward Berliner weisse / kettled soured fruit ale with nice apricot flavors. Not that complex, but refreshing and drinkable. To be honest, I grabbed the wrong bottle, as I'm trying not review styles I'm not excited about from new breweries, and was not thrilled to see this labelled a sour. This lighter Berliner weisse was not a bad choice and was enjoyable. I'm partial to apricots and this tasted genuine.

 

 

Pours slightly hazy with a thin layer of head with little retention. Nose is tart apricot and musty wheat. Flavour is nicely balanced between sour from the lacto and the sweet flavours of apricot. Bready malt lingers alongside sweet candied apricot. Insanely drinkable brew that would be incredible on the patio.

 

650ml bottle - another variant on their kettle soured Berliner Weisse series.

This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with one finger of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent pitted limestone grotto lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.

It smells of fresh apricot/peach puree, grainy and doughy wheaten malt, lightly soured milk, a bit of earthy and faintly funky yeast, and a very plain and understated leafy and floral hop bitterness. The taste is more sort of tart apricot, nectarine, and grapefruit, er, fruitiness, bready and doughy pale and wheat malt, soft lacto notes, a fading phenolic yeastiness, and some further leafy, floral, and wet hay-like hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite genial in its laid-back, low-five frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and actually quite smooth, with a nice airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, the stone fruit becoming very blended (i.e. the apricot getting harder and harder to pick out of a crowd).

Overall, this Apricot Sour is a fairly benign version of the style, with the tartness of the apricots kept well in check. Add to that a simple and easy-going lactic thing, and we have a generally enjoyable and drinkable, if not particularly challenging quaff - not that everything need be that way, of course.