So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance
Evil Genius Beer Company

 

I’m telling you there’s a better chance you’ll like this beer than Mary and Lloyd ending up together. I love a good cream ale especially a Genny Cream. This beer poured into a straw color like a cream ale should, with a nice frothy at the top. It gives off vanilla and coffee aromas that are tantalizing. Once you take a sip of this smooth beer you know what it is. It is as if you put Baileys Irish Cream in your ale. A great combination!

 

 

 

 

To the untrained observer, my machinations may be hard to pick up on. Sure, brewery horizontals are fairly straightforward & obvious, but transitions and other subtleties may not be. My previous beer was an N2-charged Cream Ale with cold-brewed coffee. This one will not only act as a bridge between New Belgium & Evil Genius, but it will also pave the way for my next horizontal as I keep working to eradicate the backlog here at Chez Woody. It's the pesky, confounded bottles that I will not miss as they are emptied, rinsed & placed in the recycling bin.

From the Bottle: "So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance Irish Coffee Cream Ale"; "Ale with Natural Flavors added"; "11 IBUs".

I Pop!ped the cap & started a slow, steady C-Line pour into the awaiting glass. I was not getting a lot of foaming & since it was a relatively fresh bottle, I gave the remainder an in-Bottle swirl & let loose. This raised just better than a finger of foamy, soapy, rocky, bone-white head with modest retention, falling to wisps fairly quickly. Color was Straw-Yellow (SRM= > 2, < 4) with NE-quality clarity. Nose smelled like a combination of coffee and cream soda pop. 8=O Clearly, this was NOT the Genny Cream of my youth that we used to guzzle as underage drinkers! Mouthfeel was medium & here was an instance where I would have liked a bit more fullness. The taste was more towards Cream Soda (pop) than coffee, although it tasted like the kind of coffee that I generally eschew - coffee with cream & sugar. Ugh. I weaned myself off of that early on in my Navy career & won't touch it unless it's jet black. I found the finish to be sweeter than I would have preferred. It was okay & as a novelty beer, there was nothing to cause me to warn anyone off of it, but it simply was not my cuppa joe. YMMV.

Around medium carbonation with a just below average body.
Aroma is vanilla , cream,light coffee
Taste follows the aroma with the coffee showing up but is far from overpowering. It really tastes like an adult cream soda. Not a knock a few back but it was an interesting, well done novelty beer