Honey Brown
Genesee Brewing Company in Rochester, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Amber / Vienna Regular|
Score
5.04
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This isn’t your watered-down light beer from college. Nor is it a heavy craft beer. Honey Brown pours right smack dab in the middle. A delicious golden amber color, it’s a beer you can drink throughout the night while staying true to yourself and your evolving palate. Enjoy it with friends. Enjoy it with strangers. It doesn’t matter to us—just enjoy it. (Formerly J.W. Dundee/Dundee Original Honey Brown Ale)
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Dark golden color. Nice head. Aroma, just ok, slight malt and honey. No hops. Taste is sweet but not in the nasty way. Really good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2025
at 05:12
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours clear amber with a thin white head. Harsh Aroma. Taste is sweet and slightly acerbic. Palate has distinct notes that accompany a beer made with rice. Not terrible.
Tried
on 13 May 2019
at 01:18
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Backlog bottle rating. Pours a clear amber with a head that dissipates quickly. Caramel foward nose with light cookie notes and honey. Sweet on the palate, corn, grain, more honey. Light and drinkable, but not good flavor-wise.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jan 2018
at 12:09
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, bottled on 7/20/2017. Pours crystal clear deep golden amber/light orange color with a 1 finger dense and rocky off white head wit good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of honey, brown sugar, bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/caramel, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good complexity of dark/bready malt and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of honey, brown sugar, bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/caramel, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Very mild herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of honey, brown sugar, bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/caramel, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Nice robustness and complexity of dark/bready malt and light earthy hop flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Minimal dryness. Very clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and slightly slick/sticky mouthfeel that is good. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.5%. Overall this was a good Amber lager style. All around good robustness and complexity of dark/bready malt and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the very mildly bitter finish. Clean, smooth, and flavorful dark/bready malt and honey flavors. Could have definitely used more hops, but there is nothing really wrong with it. A nicely enjoyable offering, and good style example.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2017
at 18:35
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
From Dec 2007
This pours from 12oz bottle a clear medium gold with about a 1 finger head of foam. It has a little bit of lacing.
The smell is of some malt and honey but it's light.
The taste has some sweet malt and honey flavour to it but it's very bland. The mouthfeel is fairly nice and it's of medium carbonation but again, the flavours are very bland. I got this in a mixed 12 pack and I would *not* buy this by the sixer. It's just too ordinary. Give me their Pale or IPA, or their Amber Lager.
This pours from 12oz bottle a clear medium gold with about a 1 finger head of foam. It has a little bit of lacing.
The smell is of some malt and honey but it's light.
The taste has some sweet malt and honey flavour to it but it's very bland. The mouthfeel is fairly nice and it's of medium carbonation but again, the flavours are very bland. I got this in a mixed 12 pack and I would *not* buy this by the sixer. It's just too ordinary. Give me their Pale or IPA, or their Amber Lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2017
at 09:25
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle at home in Salisbury. Pours clear honey-gold with a creamy, white head. Effervescent. The aroma holds lightly toasted biscuits, cereal, bread. Medium sweet flavour with a bit of sugary honey, some toffee, more lightly toasted bread, crispy cereal. Light bodied with average, massaging carbonation. Sugary finish, with more honey, very simple bready malts, some caramel, minimal bitterness. Quite simple and sweet overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2017
at 20:59
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 3
Bottle, from US. Backlog entry. Entering my historic scores for US beers whilst visiting New York. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2017
at 05:42
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Clear deep amber color, scant head. Aroma of nutty caramel. Taste is malty caramel. Plain.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2016
at 18:24
3.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 4
Rated from old notes. The slightly sweet aftertaste only serves to remind what a drab, flat and weak beer this amounts to in the end. Not actively offensive, but a beer to avoid.
Tried
on 20 Dec 2015
at 13:36
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Epsom Circle Market, Epsom NH. Aroma is bready malts and yeasty dough. Appearance is clear golden brown with finger-width head with poor retention, minimal lacing and nice sparkle. Taste is lightly sweet. Palate is medium bodied with lively carbonation that’ll cut through a dry throat on a hot summer day. Overall, pretty much what you’d expect for the style but not a real strong aroma or taste. In the right situation, this hits the spot.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2015
at 19:47