Red Brick Blonde
A crisp and refreshing American Blonde Ale. With a Blonde in hand, it's always happy hour.
2.7
171 reviews
Atlanta, United States
Community reviews
Clean lemony aroma. Red brick blonde, she’s blonde in looks but she’s not really a golden blond in taste. Must be dyed, heh. Rather sharp somewhat odd pointed hop impact, makes me think its pilsner but its not. Very good looking I may say. Rocky head stays rocky for a really nifty shapely floating thing on my beer. Even tho this is listed as 4%, it really comes across like a higher alky apa, probably 5.5% or more. Very good sizzle for the palate. Finish is just that.
Good. The nose is citrus and hoppy. The beer is a beautiful golden blonde with a small white head. The taste citrus hops balanced with a nice maltly crispness. The beer is medium bodied and very clean.
Translucent gold with a dense white head. Medium body and carbonation.
Aroma: bright citrusy herbal hops, lots of pale malt sweetness, and some fruity and spicy yeast esters.
Taste: pleasant citrusy hops, sweet pale malt, astringent water profile.
Lemon yellow with thin white lacing. Lemon-ish smell, like a cleaning product. Palate is med-bodied & lemony. Eh.
Bottle from Liz. Pours hazy dirty light gold with a slight white head. Light citrus aroma. Near med body. Light malt flavor with some hop bitter, but also a component that could be honey or faint diacetyl. Sweet? Buttery? Not strong - so hard to decide. The bitter tends to cover this note, but the note takes it away from crisp. For me, anyway. Still it is finishing very bitter, which is always a good thing. For me, anyway.
Pours a slightly hazy blonde color with an absolutely massive head. This beer is way over carbonated. Spicy hop aroma of citrus and a bit of pepper up front with a sweet malty aroma as well. Dry malty flavor up front with a bit floral hop notes thrown in. Overall not a bad brew. Maybe the six I picked up was a fluke but every bottle was way over carbonated. It took several minutes of pours a little into a glass and waiting for it to settle to get the entire bottle poured out.
12 ounce bottle that pours a golden yellow color with aromas of grass, and honey. Tastes of honey, and hay, an easy drinker.
12 ounce bottle. Pours a pale gold with a small white head. Aroma of grain, malt and a bit of hops. Taste is grain, malt and grass. Very average.
On tap at Taco Mac on Peachtree. Flavor is obviously very light. A little sweet and a little bit of hoppiness. Would be better if they would’ve taken a more firm direction on this beer - but as it is seems too much of a mainstream compromise, but it is decently well crafted.
At a tiny tasting in my home, bottle, pours clear yellow color, slightly fluorescent with a short white head that dissipates quickly, sparkling, corn and slightly toasted malt aroma, slightly sweet taste, bitter palate, bitter finish, light body, watery texture, and overall a reasonable beer, but nothing more.
Draft at pizza joint. Gold to amber poor with a thin white head. Light scent of bread. Taste is light as well.
Is it bad? No. Is it good? No. Is it blande... (yes) is itt blonde (no). Little flavor, little fizz... give this one to your bud buddies... they’ll think they have something gormet. The rest of us... buy something else.
(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.
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.
16 oz sample on tap at The Ale and the Witch in St. Pete, FL. Metallic, spicy light herbal hop aroma with some floral hints as well. Transparent blonde body with a fizzy whitish medium head and really good lacing present. Starts a little fruity with some pineapple hints. Becomes herbal and grassy in the finish. Citrus/lemon peel is also apparent. Light, and fairly refreshing, although nothing extraordinary, either.
Pours an almost clear yellowish orange with hardly any head. Aroma is a little sweet and a little grassy. Flavor is a bit of roasted malts, which I’m not a big fan of, and a bit watery. Not much here.
Pours a clear light yellow. Creamy mouthfeel. Light aroma and taste. Similar to a pilsner with a bit more bite.
12 ounce bottle from Beer of the Month Club poured into a snifter glass, although my beer has a completely different label. Light pale yellow straw colored with with an average head that recedes to a collar around the glass. Grains, wheat and hay, with a little lemony citrusy aroma. More grains and grass and hay flavors. A bit on the sweet side, but tasty. Light bodied, with average carbonation. Light refreshing and very easy and smooth to drink. Not a whole lot of flavor going on, but a nice session beer, especially on a hot day with a grilled cheeseburger.
(12oz bottle thanks to Cavie) clear pale yellow, white bubbles. Nose of caramel, melon and honey. Taste of butter, honey, bitter melon and earth.
Has a clean finish. Creamy texture with white bread aftertaste. It’s a good beer.
(12oz bottle, courtesy of Cavie) Pours a clear yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of biscuit, plastic, honey, and grain. Flavor of biscuit, light sulfur, and grass.
Thanks to Bu11zeye for this one. Pours a light yellow with a medium white head. The aroma are yeast, lemon and skunk. The moutheel is watery with no little carbonation.
Pours yellow with no head. Aroma is musty. Taste of metal, wheat, and grain. Bland and boring.
Bottle: bright yellow in color, in the aroma some floral notes, wild flower field, some honey, some toasted malt, some grain, a little lemony, some cardboard, weak floral-grassy-herbal hops, some hay, light bodied, dryish finish, ok but uninteresting.