Dogfish Head Aprihop:
Well hello there, let’s talk beer. What did you think we were here for, cupcake recipes?  That’s pintrest, this is beer and good beer at that- well, ignore April and a few days in March and it is.  To show you that we are all about the good beer here, we’ll review a Dogfish Head beer.  Yes, Dogfish Head, that little brewery in Delaware that consistently churns out beers that seem to be assembled by throwing darts at a big board of ingredients and then, some how, making them work in harmony.  To a lot of us hop heads, the Dogfish IPAs are the key line of beer and rightly so- the entry level 60 minute is something to admire while the 120 minute may just be heaven sent.  So what would happen if you take a slightly souped-up 60 minute and combine it with a nice balanced fruit like apricot and let magic happen?  Well you get Aprihop, a seasonal release that, here is Texas, was released for the equivalent of a lightning bolt from a Spring strom.  The beer pours very well, the color a nice golden color and a good head that seemed to stay rather large due to the cold glass.  The beer has a nose of heavy hops that stay hoppy and not venture into the grapefruit territory that stronger IPAs are known for and that maybe due to the fruit in the beer or just the fact that it’s really a mild IPA.  The apricot shows up in the drinking portion of the beer, mainly underneath the notes of hops and citrus that are the backbone of this beer.  The taste isn’t really noticeable; in fact, if you weren’t looking for them, the apricot would slip by.  The back-end was very typical of an IPA with a skunk taste and at times, I could taste the apricot while others I couldn’t.  A great beer, really good, a perfect spring beer and it’s a shame that it lasted so shortly here but lives like a never dying weed in the Mid-Atlantic (my latest trip up to Delaware/Maryland/Virginia area showed that there are stores with cases of this stuff just sitting around).  Hopefully we have another chance to get this beer next year, it’s well worth your and your taste buds time.