10 years gone by...

I had trouble believing that too, but when I found the Pyramid website (now FIFCO USA) the banner says " We're sorry, that brand has been discontinued. Please try one of our other brands." which include Labatts Blue, Magic Hat, Genesee, and Imperial. This sounds so much like Anchor Brewing, for instance.

 

@woemad's experience is identical to my own. It seemed like the apricot wheat was always available at the grocery store. I'm shocked to hear that the brand is history.

@moodenba. I visited the Kalama outpost in the early 90s. I still rember arguing with the GF whether we should get the espresso stout or the apricot wheat to go (in a crowler format). We ultimately opted for the stout, but the apricot wheat was the best fruited wheat I'd ever tasted at the time. A couple months later the beer took gold at the GABF, which didn't surprise me in the least.

That was a very different time, but it's hard to believe that the Pryamid brand is now no more. Far cry from the days when they had huge brewery/restaurant operations in Seattle, Berkeley and Sacto.

 

I don't know how they made such a great fruity wheat beer-- the apricot was just right, not artificial or like the familiar canned nectar. Who would not guard that recipe and make sure it was a money-maker whatever happened to the original brewery?

 

That was exactly our take back then. The fruit flavor seemed very fresh and natural, with no artifical, medicinal component. At the time, that was very, very unusual.

 

More breweries apparently closed unless anyone knows otherwise--

- St. Brigid’s Brewery, Moses Lake, Washington
- Deep Space Brewing, Hillsboro, Oregon
- Nisqually Valley Brewing, Yelm, Washington