Gimme Samoa That
Rushing Duck Brewing Company
- From:
- Rushing Duck Brewing Company
- New York, United States
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.09 | pDev: 8.56%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 8
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 21, 2025
- Added:
- Oct 26, 2015
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
90
Outstanding
90
Outstanding
Collaboration beer with The Hop, Beacon,NY.
The crew at The Hop spent the day helping us brew and then toasted 50lbs of coconut to create a milk brown Ale with cocoa and coconut to mimic the flavors found in the famous Samoa girl scout cookie.
The crew at The Hop spent the day helping us brew and then toasted 50lbs of coconut to create a milk brown Ale with cocoa and coconut to mimic the flavors found in the famous Samoa girl scout cookie.
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Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
4.65/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.65/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Excited to try my first Rushing Duck.
Crowler from Oliver's, Albany, NY.
This was poured into an English pint glass.
The appearance was a sturdy dark brown color with a small cap of a little off white foamy head. Gently dissipated to leave a wisp of concave lace sliding with the sips.
The aroma was absolutely phenomenal! Such an absolutely magical blend of cocoa powder to coconut while delving into a light cookie/baked bready/dark cracker sweetness and dropping a little bit of of vanilla at the end.
The flavor might lean towards the sweet side but it's a powdery sweetness with a touch of dry maltiness to boot. Mild aftertaste of sweet malts, somewhat like a Samoa cookie - the coconut, milk chocolate powder and a light vanilla.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt on par. Finish was absolutely beautiful! Just how the coconut meshed finely with the milk chocolate and cookie-ish biscuitiness.
Overall, my first Rushing Duck beer ever and damn! Are we starting off on the right foot or what! I did have high expectations for this and well, shit, they were more than met!
Nov 19, 2018Crowler from Oliver's, Albany, NY.
This was poured into an English pint glass.
The appearance was a sturdy dark brown color with a small cap of a little off white foamy head. Gently dissipated to leave a wisp of concave lace sliding with the sips.
The aroma was absolutely phenomenal! Such an absolutely magical blend of cocoa powder to coconut while delving into a light cookie/baked bready/dark cracker sweetness and dropping a little bit of of vanilla at the end.
The flavor might lean towards the sweet side but it's a powdery sweetness with a touch of dry maltiness to boot. Mild aftertaste of sweet malts, somewhat like a Samoa cookie - the coconut, milk chocolate powder and a light vanilla.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt on par. Finish was absolutely beautiful! Just how the coconut meshed finely with the milk chocolate and cookie-ish biscuitiness.
Overall, my first Rushing Duck beer ever and damn! Are we starting off on the right foot or what! I did have high expectations for this and well, shit, they were more than met!
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.02/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at Albany Ale and Oyster in Albany, NY.
This one pours a fairly dark brown color, with a small head, and a little bit of lacing.
This one smells like creamy and sweet coconut, with milk chocolate candy, caramel, and vanilla.
This is quite sweet, but still very, very tasty, with a good amount of sweet creamy coconut, almost like coconut mixed with coffee creamier. The base brown ale is slightly subsumed by the coconut and chocolate, but I do still get a bit of sweet breadiness and a touch of caramel. This does a fairly good job of emulating a Samoa girl scout cookie.
This is medium bodied, and pretty creamy, with a pretty good level of carbonation.
I love anything with coconut, so this worked pretty well for me.
Nov 05, 2018This one pours a fairly dark brown color, with a small head, and a little bit of lacing.
This one smells like creamy and sweet coconut, with milk chocolate candy, caramel, and vanilla.
This is quite sweet, but still very, very tasty, with a good amount of sweet creamy coconut, almost like coconut mixed with coffee creamier. The base brown ale is slightly subsumed by the coconut and chocolate, but I do still get a bit of sweet breadiness and a touch of caramel. This does a fairly good job of emulating a Samoa girl scout cookie.
This is medium bodied, and pretty creamy, with a pretty good level of carbonation.
I love anything with coconut, so this worked pretty well for me.
Reviewed by MacMalt from New Jersey
3.94/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
I had this on draught at the brewery. 12 oz. pour served in a tulip glass. It pours a mahogany color with cola hues and a foamy, mocha-colored head that dissipated quickly leaving soapy lacing on the glass. The nose was rather subdued and featured roasted malt and cocoa. The taste opened with mildly burnt coffee and roasted malt with lots of chocolate and some nuts. I only noticed faint coconut at the finish. This ale is medium-bodied with light carbonation, and it drinks very light at 5.6% ABV. It's easy to have a second pour. Overall, this is a solid Brown Ale. I didn't taste much coconut but that's probably okay. Overall, while I'm a huge fan of Rushing Duck, I'm not sure that this offering lived up to its billing.
Oct 26, 2017
Reviewed by chrishiker1409 from New York
4.43/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.43/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
L: A dark brown. Poured with a little less than a finger of head. It dissipated slowly and lingered at the top. Left patchy lacing.
S: Some nuts, didn't pick up any coconut.
T: Fulled the nose. Very rich, nutty flavor. Delicious. Again not much coconut.
F: Medium bodied. Creamy and went down smooth.
O: I didn't think it tasted like a girl scout samoan cookie. It tasted far better. A rich, nutty brown ale. Absolutely delicious. I hope they keep making it.
Jan 24, 2016S: Some nuts, didn't pick up any coconut.
T: Fulled the nose. Very rich, nutty flavor. Delicious. Again not much coconut.
F: Medium bodied. Creamy and went down smooth.
O: I didn't think it tasted like a girl scout samoan cookie. It tasted far better. A rich, nutty brown ale. Absolutely delicious. I hope they keep making it.
Reviewed by WillieThreebiers from Connecticut
4.09/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.09/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at the Hop. Pours clear deep brown with virtually no head. Sweet coconut nose. Taste of coconut and traces of chocolate. Fullbodied. Really excellent.
Dec 30, 2015
Reviewed by Billolick from New York
3.99/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at the green growler grocery Croton on Hudson ny
Dark ruddy amber look
Coconut sweetness and malt on the nose
Tasty and malted up brown ale. Coconut def comes through along with milk chocolate malt notes.
Quality and worthy brown. Worth a try
Dec 19, 2015Dark ruddy amber look
Coconut sweetness and malt on the nose
Tasty and malted up brown ale. Coconut def comes through along with milk chocolate malt notes.
Quality and worthy brown. Worth a try
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