Genesis Ale
Shmaltz Brewing Company in Troy, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.00
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Our First Creation. Crisp, smooth and perfectly balanced between a west coast style pale and amber ale, with a supple malt sweetness and a pronounced hop flourish.
Malts: 2-row, Caramel 40L, Dark Crystal, Munich, Wheat
Hops: Warrior, Northern Brewer, Willamette
Malts: 2-row, Caramel 40L, Dark Crystal, Munich, Wheat
Hops: Warrior, Northern Brewer, Willamette
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Utobeer. Clear attractive amber colour. Lasting thin beige head. Certainly hoppy, but more peppery hoppy tongue stinging hoppy than PNW hoppy. Some ok nutty caramel malts. Some sweetness and richness. Carbonation makes it a bit metallic. Some fruit salad in there somewhere. Fine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2009
at 12:24
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(11/23/08) Draught at Hop Leaf in Chicago. Hazy amber color with a medium, stable, off-white head. Aroma of malt, some toasted notes, caramel, fruits, and some slightly floral, slightly earthy, hops. Sweetish malty flavor at first with some caramel and light biscuit hints, continues pleasant and bitter with some grapefruit. Medium-bodied.
Tried
on 30 Jan 2009
at 11:58
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Nice tarnished penny color with a one finger head and aromas of sweet malt with little else to offer. Flavor is highly bitter with a caramel malt backbone and a little bit of a metal edge. Has a slightly astringent side to it, which is a little off-putting. This is pretty mediocre.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2008
at 20:36
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
He’brew, a little uneasy about the insinuations on the label. Same with the majority of these Hebrew beers. I guess I better find out if the owners or stockholders are Jewish first. Funny, how nothing is subject to respect, these days. Oh well, back to jenny. Genesis is advertised as a smooth and distinctive light brown ale. As far as the color goes, it is clear but has deeper tint than the typical pale yellow beer. Looking somewhat like iced tea. Aroma is beery with no offensive attributes, almost has a charming floral olfactory. Taste is quite bitter initially and comes across with some medicinal qualities. Has a very thin creamy alabaster head. Little lacing. Not sure if a lager devotee would call this palate smooth or not. Does not hide its 6% too well. Decent carbonation. Biting terse flavors build thru session. Not as downy as other American pale ales I sampled. Cannot hold a candle to marzoni’s mark’s mash or ACME CA APA. Moylans Tipperary Pale Ale and Eisenbahn Pale Ale (S.A.P.A.) are also much smoother and acceptable than this. S6L3T4F2O8 L’CHAIMI!
Tried
from Can
on 28 Nov 2008
at 14:21
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Hop Leaf, Chicago
Cloudy amber color. The aroma is a bit cheesy. Good body strength, some malt, quite bold bitterness, but overall a common beer.
Cloudy amber color. The aroma is a bit cheesy. Good body strength, some malt, quite bold bitterness, but overall a common beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2007
at 07:37
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a caramel-amber color with a small yellow-white head. The aroma was sweet, malty and nutty with light notes of caramel and vague fruits. The flavor was sweet, tangy, bitter and fruity with a undertone of nut and caramel in the malts. Seemed more of an amber ale than an APA to me. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2007
at 22:19
6.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Poured light brown with lasting head and much lacing. Faint hoppy aroma. Some malty flavour, a bit of toffee and a long hoppy finish. There’s also some flatness in the finish, that goes away as the beer warms.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jun 2007
at 23:40
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle: Slight haze in this copper pour with two fingers of creamy white head. Great lacing. Nose is soft and sweet with caramel, malts, and light citrus. Tastes a little off in the hops department. Kind of sour, but not hoppy. Malt presence is a little wheaty, crisp, and dry. Not really sure what this one is all about.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2007
at 22:36
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Clear light brown / amber body with a large creamy tan head. Thick lacing that lasts a while. Sweet malty aroma with some light caramel. Sweet caramel flavor with some dark malt in the background.
Tried
on 22 Feb 2007
at 19:07
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 oz bottle with some nice shtick on the label that poured copper with a couple dozen or so platelets of sediment floating around. There was a lasting tan head. This beer seems to have a Pale Ale type aroma with something sweet, something vaguely citrus, a bit of pale malts and pine hops. Nice flavor with some up front hops from the pine flavor variety that blends into a little bit of grapefruit then runs into bitter pine toward the finish. About at the midway point the malts show up with a roastiness and sweet caramelized malt notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2007
at 22:18