Red Brick Blonde

Brewed by Atlanta Brewing Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Atlanta, Georgia USA

12oz bottle thanks to a trade with Ding. Nice golden yellow color, white suds about one centimeter thick. It smells like dirt with a hint of honey. The taste has more honey character and is an easy quaffer. Apparently this was a Gold medal winner at GABF back in 2007 and it is quite easy to drink but I find nothing special or exceptional about it. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 04-05-2009 23:24:43

Pours pale golden with a ring of a white head. Bland nose and flavor. Really nothing interesting about this beer.

Tasted during the Nor Cal Beer Geek Tasting on 3/11/2009. This blond ale pours a light yellow gold color forma 12oz bottle. Small sized white foamy head. The aroma is cereal, fruity and sweet, touch of diacetyl. A light bodied blonde ale. The malts are fruity and sweet. The hops are slightly spicy. Kinda thin and mild tasting, add to that some strong butterscotch diacetyl flavors and this beer is really a mess. Lively carbonation. Sorry but I will pass on this one. Mouthfeel is a touch thin. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.

12 oz bottle: Pours a pale gold with a sturdy frothy head. Fairly carbonated. I can’t really get much of an aroma. Taste is slightly sweet with hints of lemon and a somewhat bitter hops finish that dissipates quickly. A very light beer that goes down smooth. Not much to this beer so it is rather forgettable...

12 oz bottle. Pours a straw color with a whispy white head. Earthy aroma with not much to it. Taste is sweet and honey followed by bitter hops. Not as good as the description sounds though. A rather weak offering. I’d like to know what "gold medal" this won.

Taste 2/9 Bottle. Looks: Very foamy out of the gate on this particular bottle. Top came flying off. Pale hazy gold body, very active disappearing foam. Aroma: A little lemon and spice (almost Hefe). Taste: Crisp and carbonated with a lemon and spice taste. A light and easy to drink summer style brew. To style.

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy light orangeish yellow with a quickly disappearing white head. Aroma is so faint I cannot pick out anything. Slightly malty and bitter taste with a grassy tasting finish. Nice and crisp, very easy to drink.

First off, that woman on the bottle looks like a brunette to me, right?! Gold medal winner eh? We will see about that! This beer is so friggin transparent it almost reflects my image, how the hell is that possible? This beer has an odd aroma. Grassy kind of aroma. Not a very pungent beer. Smell a subtle hint of some citrus fruit I think. This beer is just not aromatic enough. Thin layer of head sitting on top of this beer. As I stated before, this beer is heavily filtered. They filtered this beer too much. They are calling it blonde ale, and the beer name fits the appearance. There is that upfront sublte fruit, but then harsh grass taste. The beer smells like it tastes. This is the 2nd beer in one night that has had the same smell as taste. Somewhat creamy, but not so much. There is a crisp taste to this beer that is crisp due to the flavoring hop. I can feel it on top of my tongue. There is not that everlasting bittering hop, but upfront hop that stays on the front of your tongue. Overall, just a simple crisp, light, and refreshing ale. Too thin for my palate, but I can understand why lager lovers would love this beer; probably because it is a step up from a lager, at least in my opinion.