Great Divide Brewing Company Samurai

Samurai

 

Great Divide Brewing Company in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸

  Golden / Blonde Ale Regular
Score
5.79
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 20 Ticks: 63
A classic brand reborn, SAMURAI® is the perfect beer for your zen garden after battle, or your patio after a long day of work. The addition of Jasmine rice creates a slightly floral aroma leading into an effervescent, crisp, easy-going lager suitable for the most peaceful of warriors. This may be your first Samurai, but it most certainly won’t be your last.
HOPS: Sorachi Ace, Saaz
MALTS: 2-row, Carafoam, Jasmine Rice
YEAST: Danish Lager
 

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4.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Draft. Pours pale yellow, tasted like a somewhat lousy american ale. Not that great.

Tried from Draft on 20 May 2025 at 00:45


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tap @ Både &, Kristiansand. Unclear orange body with a dense, lacing white head. Aroma is mild and dominated by pale malt and kind of light general fruity. Flavor has a mild, smooth malt and fruitiness, not much bitterness and somehow quite pleasant without being exiting or complex by any terms. Medium body and average aftertaste. Totally decent, and I was actually not expecting much of this but the barman convinced me to try it.

Tried from Draft on 12 Mar 2025 at 07:42


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle 0,33ltr: Hazy yellow brew with an smooth crispy fruity taste, due the rice?

Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2024 at 11:44


7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Can. Pours a clear gold color with a medium sized white head that has fair retention and lacing. The aroma is sorta non-distinct with soft grains, straw and some white fruits. The taste is bready malts and a bit of fruit. The palate is thin and crisp with lively carbonation. Finishes short and clean. Overall: Decent blonde ale.

Tried from Can on 25 Feb 2024 at 21:14


4.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Rerate can 9-15-16 Prev 2.5

Tried from Can on 28 Sep 2021 at 17:44


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

12 fl.oz can. A clear yellow beer with a white head. Aroma of mild sweetish pale malt, rice, grains, flowers. Taste of mild sweet and dry pale malt, flowers, rice, mild bitterness.

Tried from Can on 28 Apr 2020 at 19:22


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Absolut feines Reisbierchen, sogar mit etwas Frucht. Keine Spur plädderich. Spät hinten leicht bitter. Ordentliches Sommerbier ohne zu speziell zu sein.

Tried on 07 Apr 2020 at 11:21


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Blonde. Flowery soapy aroma with cooked rice. Thin, flowery soft hopbitter flavor with a hint of citrus. Cooked rice. Somewhat perfumed hopbitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:07


4.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

33cl can. Le Sous-Bock, Paris. July 2019.

Tried from Can on 18 Jul 2019 at 18:09


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 6/19/2018. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy pale golden yellow color with a 2 finger fairly dense and rocky white head with awesome retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of cracker, rice, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of lemon, pear, apple, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pale malt/rice and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of cracker, rice, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of lemon, pear, apple, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, rice, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, lemon, pear, apple, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness and balance of pale malt/rice and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and minimal lingering hop astringency after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness and carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp, and bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.5%. Overall this is a very good American blonde ale. All around nice robustness and balance of pale malt/rice and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink with the modestly bitter/drying finish. Great balance of clean pils malt/rice and earthy hops; with some restrained fruity yeast complexity. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.

Tried from Can on 18 Aug 2018 at 22:49