Genesee Cream Ale

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

This is one of the longest lived American cream ales and it still delivers what it was intended to.....an American innovation on traditional European styles by making it lighter and more drinkable to the American mass market. I remember this stuff from college days and it seems to have improved in this latest offering...pours a clear light gold with a frothy head that disappears to a lace and ring, effervescent in the glass. Smells of malt and some adjuncts (corn?) Tasted dry and citrus up front medium light malty body finished dry with a lingering after taste of the adjuncts corn or rice or something. A refreshing drink served cold but I don't think corn belongs in an ale. This is still one of the better US commercial brewed beers.

It may be a "cream ale", but as you drop quality on any beer style, it always tastes like American Standard in the end. This one is tolerable, has a soft corny sweetness. No hops, and the usual chemical macro flavours.

Genny Cream comes in second behind Little Kings in my opinion. Good foamy head, corn yellow appearance. UPDATE 3/2007: In the bottle. Has a vegetable aftertaste. Fairly corny which is pretty noticable up front. The flavor maltiness is diminished by the fizziness and saltiness.

Hadn’t had Genny in a decade. Really not all that horrific. Medium yellow, OK head. Aroma faintly of corn flakes and something mildly locker-roomish. Flavor really never bothered to show up. Didn’t get any of the sweet notes others did. Blech, but there was plenty of room for this to be much worse. RERATE: 10/14/07 - slight improvement, perhaps because from a fresher bottle. Only real change in note is that there was a definite sweetness to the finish, along of course with all the corn.

Tasted as part of the ratebeer chat 40 night. Sour smell that seriously reminds me of the bathroom at a pro sports event. The label claims that this is a premium beer.. Riiight. Overly carbonated, sickly sweet. Sour malt finish.

Yuck yuck yuck... that about sums it up. Sure it's cheap... but there are better cheap beers than this. Golden, white head, looks ordinary and cheap... ...it is cheap, smell that... cheapness and nothingness... ...and taste that backwashed crud... ...and then smack yourself for drinking such crap.

No sir, I do not like it. Too sweet and watery. Looks like a standard American macro.

Urine-yellow body, medium fizz, and medium urine-like head. Dusty cornhusk smell. Nothing beckons me to continue, yet... Corny, DMS, and sickly sweet flavor. Syrupy palate. This is sugary shite beer. Worse than expected.