98 Bottles of Beer on the Wall

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I’ll pick this one at 98 since that’s when I finally managed to graduate from UGA. Today’s selection takes us back to one I discovered during a tailgate in the 90s, as I can remember someone had a whole damned truck with taps on it from the Honey Brown company itself, Genesee Brewing.

It’s not honey, it’s not brown. Let’s call it Honey Brown.

The good people at beerandbrewing.com rated this as an 86/100, which means you could have 86 but not 100 of these right before blindness sets in. They also described it as:

What the brewers say

Beer with honey.

What our panel thought

Rich honey aroma, light grainy malt, subtle floral hops. Beautiful, straw colored, and crystal-clear. Easy-drinking flavor: fruity honey, light acidity, low hop-bitterness. Berry-soda-like flavor. Sweetness lingers.

What our editors thought

Golden body, pretty far from “brown.” That aside, the faintly earthy, slightly sweet, floral-blossom nose is helles-like. Flavor-wise, light berry esters add interest to a very simple beer. Brown in name only.

Beer with honey. That says it all, I guess. Someone wasn’t overthinking this review in the least. On a side note, I found it the other day at the local liquor store, which was repackaged recently so it now looks like this:

Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?

Pairs well with:

  • Honey Nut Cheerios
  • A salty sack of nuts. Not those, you pervert, the ones in a shell.
  • Going to bed alone
  • Drinking with craft brew friends and pretending it’s a Pomegranate Pine Nut Hazy Days IPA, but you can’t stomach another shitty beer for the evening
  • Chicken and Waffles, maybe
  • Watching Jackie Brown for the seventy-seventh time
  • Getting something for free, because you acted like you were long lost friends with the really hammered guy at the tailgate at Legion Field Parking in 1995 (pretty sure it was before the South Carolina game)

Upcoming: Natural Light, Olympia, Red Dog

8 thoughts on “98 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”

  1. I had some of this one time. A buddy of mine got some when we were teenagers and had to go through the channels people figure out when they’re teenagers and he got this cause it looked weird. Rated weird too. No thanks

  2. Genesee also makes a great Cream Ale, and the best part is that it runs pretty cheap if you can find it here in GA. Genny beer is an upstate NY institution.

    • Beat me to it Dude! TBH I had no idea Genesee (Rhymes with tennessee, but tennessee sucks and Ginny Cream does not. #FTMF) produced Honey Brown.

      Honey Brown isn’t terrible. Genny Cream goes great with pizza. The first time I had it was in a Boston bar while making time with a very attractive bartender who thought my accent was adorable.

      • I think Genny Cream used to open for Blondie at the Clermont Lounge back in the day…

  3. Chef will be so disappointed it doesn’t pair well with Chocolate Salty Balls…

  4. I liked this for about a year at UGA. It was my splurge beer, lol.

  5. A buddy of mine’s last name was Brown so he drank it for a while. Much like I latched onto Southpaw.

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