Samurai Barley Ale
Hyouko Yashiki No Mori Brewery (Swan Lake) in Agano, Niigata, Japan 🇯🇵
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
6.99
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Samurai Barleywine Ale has been cellared in earthen-pots in the mountains of Niigata, Japan for many months before being bottled. Dark malt flavors with berry aromatics make for a complex and deep lingering Barleywine Ale.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6
12oz @ Ryan's (thx for the beer, man!) shared with Alex.
Malty with some hoppy bitterness. Taste is along the same lines. Finishes with hoppy bitterness. An American style BW. It's ok, but not more than that.
Malty with some hoppy bitterness. Taste is along the same lines. Finishes with hoppy bitterness. An American style BW. It's ok, but not more than that.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2025
at 07:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Poured from 355mL bottle. Clear orangey gold with minimal white head. Toffee malt, mild background esters, feint bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
from
A1 Hop Shop 144th
on 07 Mar 2025
at 07:12
8/10
I'm too tired to check it, but I'm pretty sure I just got the whole world in my house
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:31
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
330mL bottle, pours a hazy orange with a medium beige head. Aroma reveals notes of toffee, stone fruits, and brown sugar in reasonable cohesion. Flavour is sweet, estery and fruity -- a bit too sweet and estery for me. There's lots of bubblegum-y notes, sweet stone fruits, and toffee on the finish. Not bad, but this doesn't strike the notes or balance for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2024
at 04:09
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg at pub Edo. Cloudy orange colour with little head. Aroma booze and boozy fruits. Tripel like sweetness. Taste, lots of booze, almost spirit like. Bit of indistinct fruit, bit orangey by not quite. Maybe something tropical. Bitterness at end. Quite full on. Nice, but probably should have had the imperial stout instead. Rerate: 4/11/13 body is lacking I think. It's alright, raisins, fruity, bread, but definitely not quite there.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Swan Lake Pub Edo in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. dark brown. smell-whiskey, dark fruit, caramel. taste-caramel, dark fruit, sweet whiskey, raisin. full body. This rating not sponsored by ZX Ventures or AB Inbev.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Feb 2019
at 02:41
9/10
Yes. Yes!
Tried
on 31 Oct 2018
at 21:12
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle pours out amber orange color topped with a small head. Nose is big sweet caramel malts honey notes and some citrus hops. Tatse is more of the nice rich malts and the mellow hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2018
at 21:53
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On tap at Bungalow it pours a dense milky orange brown with a beige head and an intensely fruity citrus and sweet bread pudding aroma. Medium to full bodied and velvety smooth. This beer melds bold citrus, bitter pine and rich bread and grains with graham, honey and fruit. I’m glad I got to try the original version that gave birth to the barrel aged one. A solid beer that matches this beautiful cool Fall day perfectly. It lost points for looks.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Oct 2016
at 07:21
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
2014 version on tap at Swan Lake Pub Tete. Hazy brown color. Initially its a Sweet malty nose with apricots and citrusy notes, but some strong hops underneath that. . Candied fruit and grapefruit notes dominate the mouth. Fairly boozy, even two years into. I mean very boozy. Not the most complex brew in the world. Not bad but nothing special.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Sep 2016
at 06:38