Red Brick Blonde

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

(12oz bottle thanks to Cavie) Light yellow. Honey, white bread, strawberry, apricot. Tastes light with bits of hops. Really watery. Some lemon, eh...

Bottle. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty aroma with weak caramel hints.Fruity malty creamy caramel flavor with weak hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish.

Hazy gold/yellow. Aroma of cereal grain, apple. Taste has some light skunky hop to it.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden color with a medium white head. The aroma is of light lemony citrus and maybe a hint of spice. The flavor is a bit of the same with little wheat. Very sessionable, but I would get bored of the flavor after a while.

Pours a fading white head with a pale golden body. Aromas and flavors are malty with a hint of spice. Finish is fading and clean.

Appearance: light haze offers softness to freshly baked bread crusts, hay and straw. Voluminous bubbly head leaves a network of lace in its wake before settling into a blotchy meringue head. Swirls thick and lacy.
Nose: yowza. Bananas, tangerines, tropical smoothies. Doughy bready yeasty. Freshly cut green banans mingle with plantains. Refreshing. Oozes summertime in the tropics. Fresh bread crusts.
Palate: soft, airy, and quick – like a summer sea breeze carrying essence of coconuts, papaya, bananas, and oranges. Lightly dry bitter finish – citrus skins. Fresh, simple and delightful. Bread crusts mingles with pineapple and guava. Clean in the middle, frothy along the sides. Dew-dropped green grass. Coconut husks.
Final Thoughts: I’ve had very little experience with Red Brick and the one I did have was very underwhelming so I expected very little with the Blonde. Consider me pleasantly and tastefully surprised. Even now, an easy month later I can remember her like yesterday. May I have another, please and thank you.

UPDATED: APR 24, 2011 Poured from a bottle into a thick highball glass. Upon first sight it is golden yellow, with a fairly thick and cloud-like head, which quickly gets foggy. Lacing is rather messy but sticks around to look like a true ale. First scent is dry and bitter, almost like a grapefruit, otherwise just very light citrus. At first it is bitter, and plays around to finish with some sweetness that lingers. Generously carbonated too, I would say, and very light on the palate. I’d say a few of these would go down well. Not being the best blonde I’ve ever had, it does have just enough of a blonde ale bitterness to suffice.

bottle thanks to cavie. poured clear yellow with a white head. aroma was lemon and apple. flavor was lemon, grain, and bitter with a light body and high carbonation.