Great Purple Emperor

Duration Brewing in West Acre, Norfolk, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Collab with: Unity Brewing / Boxcar Brewery
Lager - Rice Special

Score

7.02

ABV: 4.7%

IBU: -

Ticks: 4

Boxcar, Unity and Duration often collaborate together - a bonding time to discuss the beer styles we love to explore. This time we brewed a crisp, dry Japanese-style rice lager utilises jasmine and local bay leaves to bolster the Loral dry hop. Orange notes and a hint of botanicals add balance to this clean, dry and highly quaffable beer.

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dragnet101 (5184) reviewed Great Purple Emperor from Duration Brewing 1 year ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Growler from LCB. Light misty gold with small swirly white top. Very floral jasmine aroma with hints of spice. Its crisp with clean malts and lots of jasmine and some floral and spice hop in the finish. Often I struggle with botanical beers but this one goes down very well. I still think it more of a one off beer experience, not sure its sessionable by lager standards. Enjoyable though.

Tried from Growler on 02 Jan 2025 at 03:04

7.9

LazyPyro (9998) reviewed Great Purple Emperor from Duration Brewing 3 years ago

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

440ml can. Clear pale yellow, white head. Aroma is floral and herbal, jasmine, bay leaves. Taste of jasmine, bay leaves, mild citrus, grainy malts. Clean, crisp, dry, with a mildly bitter finish. Really pleasant use of adjuncts. Enjoyed this more than I thought I would.

Tried from Can on 03 Jan 2023 at 17:51

7.2

madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Great Purple Emperor from Duration Brewing 3 years ago

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

10th October 2022
Can. A light haze on this pale yellowish gold beer, decent bubbly white head but it fades quickly. Palate is light, mildly dry and has a good fine minerally crispness. The thin malts bring the right amount of sweetness. Some suitable lager tang in the mid. Back end is all about Jasmine, it's quite floral and moving towards perfumey. Bay leaf and Loral hop fruits play 2nd and 3rd fiddle in that order. Light semi dry finish. Interesting lager, I like it but I am not sure I could session it and a lager should always be sessionable for me.

Tried from Can on 10 Oct 2022 at 19:12

MusingAnorak (11819) ticked Great Purple Emperor from Duration Brewing 3 years ago

Tried from Draft on 25 Sep 2022 at 15:31