With temperatures nearing triple digits this week, I went to the fridge looking for something I could enjoy to break the heat a little. I’ve had this bottle sitting there for a while so it seemed like a good fit.

In the wrong hands, fruit beer can be an absolute disaster so I’m always worried when I pour a new one. I would preface that by warning that you better damn sure love apricots or this isn’t the beer for you. Let’s get the technical stuff out of the way first. The first thing is the smell, full of sweetness that hits you like a strong perfume. That smell carries over into the taste which as I said before, if you love apricots, is not a bad thing. The fruit definitely overpowers the wheat but you can still get faint hints that this is a wheat beer. It had fairly light carbonation and finish so overall a pretty smooth beer to drink.

I honestly think this is a case of taking a name and running with it to the brink of disaster. I don’t want to drink a beer so saturated with one flavor that I can’t enjoy the other aspects that could make it a more well rounded offering. This makes me think of a beer like Southern Tier Pumpking, a really strong, sweet smelling beer that you expect might to be too much but the flavors are really well rounded. Pyramid had the chance to do that here but stuck to their guns and forced in as much apricot flavor as humanly possible to live up to their label (which by the way looks like Jackson Pollack puked out a beer bottle).

I can’t say that I’ll be buying this again. While apricots are a pretty kick ass little fruit, it’s just not a flavor I desire in my beer.