Cream Ale
Genesee Brewing Company in Rochester, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Cream Ale Regular|
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4.91
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Smooth like a lager. Crisp like an ale. The Cream Ale was one of the first beer styles created in America, and ours has been the style standard since Genesee first brewed it in 1960. Genesee Cream Ale has won numerous awards throughout the years and remains just as smooth and flavorful as it’s always been. It’s a true American original.
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4/10
Pours amber with a thin bubbly head and intense carbonation. Aroma of sweet malt. Taste has a rich red Irish malt, creamy mouthfeel. Palate has mild ferrous note. Interesting.
Tried
on 02 Apr 2020
at 23:49
7/10
Awesome dive bar. Chilling with my buddy Mike who I haven’t seen in ... 5 years!!
Tried
from Can
on 13 Aug 2019
at 22:16
5/10
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Mar 2019
at 22:20
4/10
It's a beer.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Jun 2018
at 22:11
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
24 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 11/11/2017. Pours fairly crystal clear medium golden yellow color with a 2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of cracker, corn, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with light notes of lemon, pear, apple, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with pale malt/corn and light earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of cracker, corn, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with light notes of lemon, pear, apple, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Light herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, corn, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness of malt/corn and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance; and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Moderately crisp/clean finishing. Very clean on lager flavors, not Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium-high carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and light sticky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.1%. Overall this is a delicious cream ale. All around nice robustness of malt/corn and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink. Very flavorful and never thin/watery for the ABV. Very clean pale malt/corn flavors, restrained yeast, and mild earthy hop balance. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Mar 2018
at 23:37
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3
Tall boy can. straw yellow. smells like melon, peach and hay. soft carb, very thin, fades fast to a sweet grassy flavor. caramel flavor?
Tried
from Can
on 16 Jul 2017
at 15:26
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
From old tasting notes. Ah, one of the beers of my youth! Medium gold with small bubbles. Moderate creamy white head. Light sweet maltiness with a wisp of hops. Tangy ale flavor is sweet and fizzy. Middle is crisp and light bodied. Finish is just plain non existent. Average flavor at a cheap price.
Tried
on 28 Apr 2017
at 23:32
5/10
Tried
on 12 Feb 2016
at 22:04
6/10
Tried
on 26 Sep 2015
at 18:16
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. A- Grains, watery, corn. A- Golden color, clear liquid, white head. T- Grains, cereal, cream, sweet corn, malty. P- Light body, average texture, average carbonation, light finish. O- What is this!? Did I just time travel back to my grandpa’s fridge from 1958? Certainly seems by the bottle, taste, and everything about it, that it’s from that era. Shockingly not drain pouringly awful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2015
at 22:34