Great Divide Samurai

Sampled in a 12oz bottle. Pours cloudy yellow with a thin lacey head. Flavor is plentiful for a blond ale however it doesn’t have a nice after taste, perhaps due to hops. Not sure if I could consume more than 2 of these, which is unusual for a blond.

Pours cloudy gold with a large white head, good amount of lacing. Aroma is herbal. Tatses slightly sweet followed by a fairly strong, bitter hop flavor. Probably too hoppy for the style but made for an interesting beer.

Pours a light golden with a white film head. Aroma is medium sweet, grainy and a hint of fruit. Flavor is medium sweet, grainy, apple and nice bitterness. Light body, lively carbonation.

Bottle. golden / yellow colour with a white head. Aroma is rice, malt. Flavour is rice, malt, hint of hop. A little bit boring beer.

Bottle. Pours a reallylight yellow;almost hoegaardenish. In terms of aroma there really wasn’t much. Light malts & Im pretty sure rice has little aroma. Decent mouth feel some light fruitiness. Clean & easy drinking but unspectacular as it was probably meant to be

This golden ale pours a slightly hazy yellow gold color from a 12 oz bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is fruity and sweet, touch of grass and some yeast. A light bodied blonde/golden ale. The malts are fruity and sweet, with some yeast and grassiness. The hops are mild and slightly spicy. A light bodied blonde ale. Very lovely looking, lively carbonation, with nice steady streams of tiny bubbles. Not as sweet as most blonde ale, in fact it finishes rather dry. A clean and crisp, light refreshing beer. Some but not a lot of flavor. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is crisp and dry. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Clear coloured golden body with a thinnish tan head. Aroma of decent malt with just about nothing else. Medium-bodied; Strong malty aroma with some spice and not much else. Medium-bodied; Strong malty flavour with some spice and a decent amount of hops with very little else. Aftertaste shows some cardboard and a bit of spice with not much else. Overall, a decent beer with a mild malty taste. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Chevy Chase Wine & Liquors in Washington, D.C. on 03-May-2008 on 26-May-2008 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Pours a very light yellowish gold with little to no head. A little maltiness on the nose but not much else. Actually pretty good taste. Crisp and clean with noticeable malt backbone. More than I would have thought based on the nose.