Samurai
Great Divide Brewing Company in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
5.78
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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
HOPS: Sorachi Ace, Saaz
MALTS: 2-row, Carafoam, Jasmine Rice
YEAST: Danish Lager
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pour is a clody yellow with a white head. Aroma is a little citrus and biscut. Flavor is a bit citrus and some kind of grain. Fairly even and not something that is really exciting. I would compare this to a low profile wheat beer.
Tried
on 23 Nov 2007
at 18:58
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle poures quite possibly the lightest colorless beer i have seen in a long time. Well, I guess the lovibond for rice is in the single digits at most. Light barley malt aroma and having tried a few sakes I recognize the slight coconut or vanilla notes that are common in those. A bit odd, but not bad. Very light bodied and crisp. Lively carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2007
at 00:18
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12oz bottle pours out a clear almost white rice like topped with a small white head. A little malt on the aroma.A light tast of coconut on the end. O well it is a rateing. thanks indiana_red
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2007
at 00:18
6.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On draught at the brewery, 9/30/2005. Pours a light, yet unfiltered (basically a chill haze) and rather shiny golden-yellow, with an absolute perfect amount of white, foamy head. Retained all the way to the bottom of the glass with ample lacing. Probably speaks to how fresh this stuff is. Sparkling appearance, with large bubbles rising. Aroma has notes of dry, papery/grainy malted grains, dry rice-like notes and a bit of dry doughiness from the yeast, kind of like overboiled white rice. A hint of lemon-pepper from the hops. Flavor is dry, with a very light body, mostly water and rice, some light graininess and a moderately sharp finish, not altogether unlike some notes you get from sake. But that’s not surprising because I knew to look for the rice, being in abundance at 20% of the grain bill. Carbonation was a bit too stiff and sharp for my liking, but it wasn’t unclean in my book. Light lemons and sponge cake as it warms, soft, almost nutty-like hops bitterness is light, with little to no hops flavor. Some honey rounds out the finish. Obviously, it could stand to have more malt flavor, more hops and less rice and high water to malt ratio, but for what it’s shooting for, it does pretty well. Like a clean, well-made version of Coors Light. Really like the lack of filtration. Though it was too carbonated, it did have a good amount of substance to it, relative to style.
Tried
on 11 Oct 2005
at 14:02