Great Divide Samurai

(bottle) slgihtly hazy pale gold with white head. Faint malt/fruit aroma. Body is little thin. Flavor is light grain, light fruits.

Rating No. 850 from the US. Bottle. Near-skunky grassiness with a bit of da funk from the hops. Cloudy, very pale yellow, short white head. Thin, very crisp body, herbal/spice tones on a decent pale malt base, slight hint of caramel, with the bulk of the flavor coming from the yeast. Aftertaste is dry and my tongue was left feeling a bit chalky. Grain of paradise in there? Not worth it.

i think its funny that anyone actually could pour this without a huge head. i tried. even wicked slow on a super slant, HUGE head. i dont be buying it again. after a coupe of them in a pint glass i just drank from the bottle, even then, every kick back reared a HUGE head. super cloudy. not so much on the flavour.

Not sure where they were going with the marketing on this one, but, you know, I guess samurai eat rice to get all burly, strong and tactical. Whatever the reasoning, this is not exactly an exciting beer, even though I really love the label. The Samurai, light yellow in complexion, looks a bit like a tripel at first. The cloudiness and fuzzy white head support this observation. But the smell is markedly different from anything like a tripel. Underripe apples, sweetened butter squash and cooked pasta give it a strange carbohydrate aroma. Appropriate to beer but not exactly alluring. The taste is generically sweet with a pale lager bitterness, and the aftertaste is a soapier version of the aroma, but even blander. So, sudsy and bland. I’ll stick to a clean bowl of rice, thank you.

pours a hazy lemon-drop in color with a small egg shell head.
smell is slight citrus, pear, some banana, some malt, a bit of yeastiness to it also.
taste is semi-sweet up front, pear, peach, pineapple, more sour in the back, touch of wheat, some malt, and a touch of bitterness.