Dogfish Head Aprihop
I have been eyeing this seasonal beer up at the beer store for a while and I finally gave in to curiosity and tried it out. I'm a big fan of the Dogfish Head brewery and I've got to hand it to them with this one for coming up with an intensely curious brew.
The beer pours a dark amber color. Not cloudy, but dark enough that I can't see through it well without holding it up to the light. Very little head was present, and it dissipated very quickly after the pour.
There is a faint sweetness to the smell with a very slight hint of apricot which had I not known better I might have mistaken ifor peach.It tastes just like a dried apricot. Complete with that funny tangy aftertaste, unfortunately. As I neared the halfway mark though, I could appreciate where they were trying to go with this beer: the first hint of the pungent apricot flavor hints at something special -- something in the realm of a kriek beer maybe. However, the flavor never progresses that far before it spirals into a funky acidic bitterness of dried apricot.Also, I was expecting to get more of a hop flavor, but there was not much in the traditional way of hops. Maybe a little in a 120 minute IPA sort of way: syrupy and sweet. There is a sweet heavy maltiness that is overlaid with the pungent apricot.Kudos to Dogfish Head for their seemingly boundless innovation in beers, but this one just didn't do it for me.



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