Genesee Brewing Company Genesee Beer

The Genesee Brewing Company is from Rochester, New York.  It was founded in 1878 and has always been on of America's largest regional breweries.  High Falls Brewery purchased Genesee in 1990. Apparently in addition to the Genesee beers, the GBC also does a lot of contract brewing. They do the Dundee line and apparently do some brewing for Sam Adams, among others.

The beer with the old school label that is so plain, it almost looks generic.  The beer pours honey golden with a half inch of white foamy head that dissipates leaving some light to medium lacing.  The aroma is corn, cooked vegetables, slightly sweet and grassy, with a bit of a green apple note.  The taste is deeper and richer than the aroma would indicate, grain, like slightly sweet cheap white bread and some ever so light bitter hops on the finish.  It ends both dry and slightly sweet.  Middling, not great, but not bad.  Like a lot of "cheap" beers, this one tastes better straight from the can which bypasses any off aromas.  From the can, this tastes a bit like Red Stripe.