Genesee Cream Ale

Brewed by Genesee Brewing Company
Style: Cream Ale
Rochester, New York USA

Serve in Footed Pilsner, Lager glass

Appearance: straw and hay under a white head – fades bubbly and bready, leaving a thin collar bordering a paper-thin film. Swirls alright.
Nose: dried corn kernels and corn nuts. Minerals, sweaty, salty. Club soda. Stale cornbread.
Palate: has more creaminess than the nose implied. Creamed corn and dry bread crusts. Super fast finish. Nondescript brightness lingers in the back. Corny Hawaiian rolls. Salty club soda in the back of each swallow. Wet powdered sugar.
Final Thoughts: it’s got retro appeal but for a cream ale, yes it is a style, I’ve had much better cream ales. Maybe if it was super cold…but then I’d rather just enjoy a non-super cold tasty craft beer.

24oz can. Aromas of hay, metal, and something funky. Honestly, I drank this straight from the can. Tastes of skunked notes, hay, some bread, and notes of sourness. While the mouth feel is quite creamy, this stuff is still pretty bad.

Heh. 12 oz short bottle. Drank out of the bottle, not sure what it looks like. It’s not THAT bad. Smells fairly skunky, pretty much like you’d expect. Crisp mouthfeel. Blah.

UPDATED: JAN 17, 2012 Bit of a hay smell. Beautiful, clear gold color, bit of white head. Subtle taste, leaning bitter, but balanced. Light to medium body with a nice creamy mouthfeel. A great step-up replacement for lackluster American Light Lagers.

Can, didnt pour into glass. Smells a bit angry ha bread, bread, roasty, spruce.light sweetness, medium bitterness, medium body, sticky, lively, bitter, semi sweet corn taste bit bitter not bad could have a few cans and be happy with it normal cheap beer with a bit of exrtra taste.

12 oz can. Standard look of an American macro lager...fizzy and yellow. Aroma is mildly sweet but overall very generic. Taste is also pretty much generic pale lager. A bit more malty sweetness and carbonation is much smoother on the palate. One of the better cheap session beers out there.

First time I’ve tried this in decades. Not as terrible as the price suggests. Aroma wasn’t very appealing. Typical pale lager aroma. With some light malt mixed in. Pour was a clear watery light gold with a thin white film for a head and few rising bubbles. Taste was light and airy. Light malt and sweet grains in the front and not much else to help out. Lager-like aftertaste. A bit sweet, but very drinkable if you’re going for a session beer. Great to watch a Steeler’s game with. Bought a case of it tonight and will guess it will still be in the fridge for my next 50 ratings.

Bottle. It is smooth. Doesn’t totally taste like water. However, no real flavors here other than corn. A little bit of an interesting sweet aftertaste.