alley kat aprikat, by andrea dyer

when i was living the age where wiping-the-snot-on-your-sleeve-in-winter was still appropriate, my loving parents had a nifty solution for fending off the cold:

beer.

it always did the trick and never asked me to return any favours.

so when i subjected myself to the apocalyptic weather of edmonton, relic and i put on our jackets, braved the outdoors, cleared the shit from out throats and warmed our bellies at the alley kat brewery on 60th avenue. it's the fourth oldest brewery in canada and has the capacity to produce 2.4 million bottles of beer annually, which is fairly attractive to an alley kat virgin such as myself.

after a few sips of so on and so forth, i decided that the fruity sweetness of 'aprikat' (alberta's first fruit beer) was the one for me. it's a perfectly carbonated german-style wheat beer - only in place of banana and clove extracts - apricots! the flavour is obvious but not overly dominant for those who'd still like to taste their barley and hops, and although i'm sipping one now on an empty stomach while pounding this out, it'd be an excellent after-dinner or summertime patio companion. and it ain't gonna talk back to ya.

...ah summer.

only 5 months left of this shit.

bottoms up.

guest review by andrea dyer