Genesee Brewing Company Cream Ale

Cream Ale

 

Genesee Brewing Company in Rochester, New York, United States 🇺🇸

  Cream Ale Regular
Score
4.91
ABV: 5.1% IBU: - Ticks: 83
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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4.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Bottle. Poured pale yellow gold with fast disappearing white head. Malty aroma. Thin watery body with a little malty taste. Almost no finish. This is another of those beers that I remember as being better than it is.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Oct 2007 at 17:34

3/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 2 Flavor 4 Texture 2 Overall 3
Draft at Brews in the Village; (one guy I know claimed it was the best beer here, I strongly disagree); Nose of vanilla and caramel; clear gold with a small white head; flavor was sweet caramel cream and only a minor hop presence in the background. Too sweet!
Tried from Draft on 09 Sep 2007 at 00:31

2.1/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 2 Flavor 3 Texture 2 Overall 1.5
Straw aroma ringed with vanilla. Yellow color, no head. Harsh carbonation. Taste is very corny. I don’t remember what I paid for it, but it tastes very cheap.
Tried on 01 Sep 2007 at 23:20

2.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 2 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 1
A golden beer with a thin white head. Corny aroma. Corny and metallic taste, rather unremarkable macro swill. Tap. Pint at 1.50$ at Clarks Ale House, Syracuse, Feb.5 2007.
Tried from Draft on 18 May 2007 at 16:08

3.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Can, 355 ml, "gift" from Marc Gratton on April 20 2007, "savoured" on April 24 2007; eye: straw, clear, light effervescence, thin white head that disappears rapidly, no lacing; nose: faint odours, slight malt; mouth: in that order, watery, fizzy, faint taste, carbonation makes it "peppery", slight bitterness, average-length finale in malt-corn, lightly sweet, medium body, grainy texture; overall: so! FRANÇAIS Canette, 355 ml, « cadeau » de Marc Gratton le 20 avril 2007, « savourée » le 24 avril 2007; œil : paille, claire, légère effervescence, petite mousse blanche qui disparaît rapidement, pas de dentelle; nez : odeurs faibles, très léger malt; bouche : aqueux, pétillante, saveurs peu prononcées, petit filet de caramel, la carbonatation la rend piquante, très légère amertume, finale de moyenne durée en malt-maïs, légèrement sucrée, corps moyen, texture granuleuse; en résumé : bof!
Tried from Can on 24 Apr 2007 at 16:04

4.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
Well, I got a sixer of this for a mere 4.50. I expected the worst and got something slightly better. Though the beer smells like the average pale lager, it actually has a nice sweetish taste to it. As far as cheap-o beer goes, this is one of the far more interesting beers out there. Nothing really great, but you can almost savour it, while swilling it quickly.
Tried from Can on 20 Dec 2006 at 14:29

4.4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 2 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Purchased at JR’s beer warehouse in rochester. On sale, after rebate cost was 24 cents 12 oz can. Decent beer for the price, I wish it cost this much all the time and I’d buy it. It is your typical pale yellow american brew with a little more smoothness than usual. Even tho it has a rather odd initial flavor it is short and the finish has no bitter aftertaste. Poured clear in my three stooges glass. In the old days, I think this stuff was brewed in Buffalo and tasted a little better as I recall.
Tried from Can on 19 Aug 2006 at 19:29

5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5
Drank straight from the can as all Genesee products in my home town are. Smell was pretty skunky to sweet. Taste was a enrichened malt when it comes to US industry beers.
Tried from Can on 02 May 2006 at 12:20

2.6/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 2 Overall 2.5
This has the sweet flavor of Grainbelt premium with an extra touch of spice and alcohol. It isn’t bad for a very light beer.
Tried on 22 Apr 2006 at 19:38

3.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Bottle. A sweet corn and old barley aroma. Golden yellow with little head. Sweet corn and barley malt flavor. Medium body. Not a big fan of that sweet corn flavor - Not horrible but not one to go out of your way to taste.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Nov 2005 at 19:48