Apricot Sour
Flying Dog Brewery
- From:
- Flying Dog Brewery
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 10.44%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 03, 2022
- Added:
- Aug 12, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Back in the old-timey days, if you wanted to enjoy fruit in winter you had to dry it, stick it in your suspenders and hope a blizzard didn’t kill you before springtime. We prefer central heat in our homes and fruit in our beer, so we made this 6.2% fruit sour, where dried apricot is mandatory and old-timey suspenders are optional.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Ozzylizard from Pennsylvania
3.08/5 rDev -15.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.08/5 rDev -15.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Apricot Sour from Flying Dog Snowplowed variety pack. 12 oz bottles purchased from Franklin Beer (12/30/21), Franklin, PA. $ 25.00 (including tax)/12 pack ($0.174/oz). Stored at room temperature in store and at 40 degrees after purchase. Reviewed 3/2/21. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Bottle stamped on label “03.21.22”. Served at 44.7 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. Final temperature 51.6 degrees.
Appearance – 3.5.
First pour – Pale Straw (SRM 2), clear.
Body – Pale Gold (SRM 4), slight haze. When rear-lite, straw (SRM 3) with marked effervescence.
Head – Average (Maximum 2.2 cm, aggressive center pour), white, fair retention, diminishing to a four to seven mm crown and a complete cap.
Lacing – Poor, just a few drag marks.
Aroma – 3 – Sour. No hops, no malt, no yeast.
Flavor – 3 – Mildly sour (little pucker power), just a ghost of apricot wafting across my taste buds, no hops, no malt, no yeast. No ethanol (6.2 % ABV, as marked on container) taste or aroma. Weak gastric warming occurs. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 3 – Thin, watery, soft but lively carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3.25. Another apricot sour for no obvious reason.
Feb 03, 2022Bottle stamped on label “03.21.22”. Served at 44.7 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. Final temperature 51.6 degrees.
Appearance – 3.5.
First pour – Pale Straw (SRM 2), clear.
Body – Pale Gold (SRM 4), slight haze. When rear-lite, straw (SRM 3) with marked effervescence.
Head – Average (Maximum 2.2 cm, aggressive center pour), white, fair retention, diminishing to a four to seven mm crown and a complete cap.
Lacing – Poor, just a few drag marks.
Aroma – 3 – Sour. No hops, no malt, no yeast.
Flavor – 3 – Mildly sour (little pucker power), just a ghost of apricot wafting across my taste buds, no hops, no malt, no yeast. No ethanol (6.2 % ABV, as marked on container) taste or aroma. Weak gastric warming occurs. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 3 – Thin, watery, soft but lively carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3.25. Another apricot sour for no obvious reason.
Reviewed by DrDemento456 from Pennsylvania
4.13/5 rDev +13.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev +13.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Love this beer not too many apricot sours I know of and they make for great fruit beers because of their sweetness. Clear bright yellow very little head. Good smell and flavor not overly sour good tart fruit flavors crisp easy finish. If I see it again I would love a six pack. Good stuff!
Dec 26, 2021
Reviewed by jzlyo from Iowa
3.75/5 rDev +3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Aroma aroma is fruit/apricot/big fruit peel. The flavor is apricot/apples, malts and a sharp tart fruit/slight white wine/sweet finish. Complex, good.
Dec 12, 2021
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