Atlanta Brewing Company / Red Brick Brewing Company
Microbrewery in Atlanta, Georgia, United States 🇺🇸
Established in 1993
Closed in 2023
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Description
Founded in 1993, Red Brick is Georgia’s oldest operational craft brewery. We began our brewing odyssey in a small red brick building in 1993, and moved to our current location in 2006.
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Mild wheat aroma. Cloudy yellow. Some wheat, but kind of skunked. It might have been a bad bottle but from other ratings, it might not be the only one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2008
at 18:55
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On drought at the brewery.Dark brown body with a substantial, long lasting, mocha head. Complex aroma, nutty, chocolate roast malts, little to no hops. A smooth creamy palate delivers the same flavors expected from the aroma. Surprisingly good.
Tried
on 09 Mar 2008
at 20:10
4.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle, bonus from Ty5592, thanks! Attempted drinking on 8/10/07
Not a gusher, thankfully, as the infection hasn’t completely run its course, and I chilled the beer down very low before opening, but it certainly isn’t far from completely gone. Huge, bacteria-induced head, with chunks on the bottom of the bottle and a dark brown-black body with magenta highlights on the edges.
Some remnants of chewy oats and fudge, lightly sweet, are still noteable, but it’s mostly drowned out by a huge excess of phenols (black pepper, some medicine) and dark fruit esters. The increased attenuation from the infection has sapped most of the sweetness, over-exposing the dark malts, which give too much dryness/astringency to the nose now. Some higher alcohol work their way in to the nose as well.
Not much of a drinking experience, with a pretty close approximation of the nose, but with added dirty elements and a stronger phenolic (HEAVY black pepper) presence. Some cola and light chocolate are all that remains. Intensely carbonated from infection.
Kind of exciting, though, as I havent opened an infected bottle in a long time.
Not a gusher, thankfully, as the infection hasn’t completely run its course, and I chilled the beer down very low before opening, but it certainly isn’t far from completely gone. Huge, bacteria-induced head, with chunks on the bottom of the bottle and a dark brown-black body with magenta highlights on the edges.
Some remnants of chewy oats and fudge, lightly sweet, are still noteable, but it’s mostly drowned out by a huge excess of phenols (black pepper, some medicine) and dark fruit esters. The increased attenuation from the infection has sapped most of the sweetness, over-exposing the dark malts, which give too much dryness/astringency to the nose now. Some higher alcohol work their way in to the nose as well.
Not much of a drinking experience, with a pretty close approximation of the nose, but with added dirty elements and a stronger phenolic (HEAVY black pepper) presence. Some cola and light chocolate are all that remains. Intensely carbonated from infection.
Kind of exciting, though, as I havent opened an infected bottle in a long time.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2007
at 10:30
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Dark brown color; the head disappears quite quickly. The aroma shows also some rotten apple. Caramel/malt taste, still with the fruitness from an overripe apple. Funky (read Papsø below).
Tried
on 05 Jul 2007
at 05:55
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
My thanks to Brewfiend for sharing. Pretty good stuff. Light smoke in the aroma, but the predominant aroma is bacon. Flavor has bacon as well, along with light malt and just a hint of coffee. I didn’t think the abv was as high as it is, so the alcohol is well hidden.
Tried
on 16 May 2007
at 16:15
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from unclemattie; nose of chocolate, coffee, roastiness, and smoke; Slightly hazy cherry brown with a small beige head; flavor is coffee, and some bittersweet chocolate with background hoppiness. After the coffee fades a nice hop bitterness makes a finish. Pretty good porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2007
at 19:21
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On draft - Stogies and Stouts at Dunedin Brewery 02/08/07. Pours dark with creamy-frothy light brown head. The aroma is of semi sweet chocolate and semi sweet malts and overall its kind of light. The taste starts out fairly neutral then leans in the sweet malt direction. Just beyond that a hint of fruit surfaces and is then swallowed by a smooth mixture of coffee, chocolate, caramel and burnt malts.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Feb 2007
at 20:44
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Chocolate oat malt aroma. Dark black color with minimal head. Dark chocolate and oat malt flavor with moderate hops finish. Nice tasty brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2007
at 15:40
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cloudy light orange color with a thin white head. Light wheat and citrus aroma. Sweet citrus flavor with a wheat background. Thanks to CaptainCougar for sending this to Richmond.
Tried
on 03 Jul 2006
at 22:13
4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottle. Sour milk malt aroma - a slight wiff of wood smoke. Cloudy orange amber color with large lasting head. Slight sour milk taste up front followed by a light caramel and strong metallic hops flavor. Probably have to try again - this tastes infected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jun 2006
at 21:47