Atwater Dirty Blonde Ale

Brewed by Atwater Block Brewery
Style: Wheat Ale
Detroit, Michigan USA

Hazy gold pour with off-white head. Nose is grainy pale malt, hopcitrus. Tastes of pale malt, some fruit, wheat, orange zest, with a citric and spicy finish. Not terribly complex, but pretty smooth and not bad for a hot spring day.

12oz bottle–pours a disappearing white head and hazy straw yellow color. Aroma is musty grain/bread, yeast, fruit-apricot, lemon, peach. Taste is tart fruit-apricot/lemon/peach, musty grain/bread/light malt, yeast-touch of coriander. Easy drinking. Thanks to Joe-jwc215 for sharing.

Pours a dirty yellow like a drunks pee in a gutter. No head to speak of. Mild aroma of lemon and wheat with a touch of grass.Flavor is weak of the same only seriously watered down. No mas por favor!

12oz bottle 4/17/2009-Pours a hazy orange with a nice big white head. Aroma of orange, coriander, and wheat. Taste is the same with a little lemon thrown in. This light bodied brew is not bad.

Tasted at GABF 2008. Flavor dirty and chalky with flavors of citrus, tropical fruits and peaches.

Draught and bottled samples at Sunset Grill, Summer 2008.
It’s stuff like this that gives blonde ales a bad name. Dirty, not in the sense that the brewers were looking for, but in the sense of unclean, with glaring brewing flaws (diacetyl, metal, a dirty yeast blandness...) and almost no malt character. Tastes like you’re chewing on a handful of dirt and wheat. Some light citrus seems out of place on the end and the beer just tastes stale, cardboard-like and nothing remotely refreshing-like. Extremely poor aroma strength, maybe a touch of vanillin and old, crusty bread. Watery mouthfeel, though somewhat ameliorated by the wheat in the grist. Horribly boring yeast lacking any character.

bright orange-straw color, quickly dissipating white head, a little bubbly. aromas of tangerine, peach, apricot, and coriander. flavor is loads of citrus fruits, peach, apricot, nectarine, kumquat. slight spice. a little tart.finish is a little tart, a little dry. lots of apricot left on the palate. decent blonde, but not my favorite.

Hazy orange with a huge head. Orangey, spicey aroma. Flavor is light and grassy with a very highly carbonated mouthfeel. Dig it for a wheat ale, light and surprisingly decent.