Brewyard Beer Co. Yasuke Matcha Black Lager Glendale - California

Based on a German-style Schwarzbier. This beer is black as night with a mildly roasted, coffee, chocolate malt flavor and a nice clean finish that doesn’t overpower the palate. The addition of premium Matcha green tea powder adds a light soothing herbal bitterness that helps calm your nerves.

Yasuke was the first recorded foreign born (Non-Japanese) man to be given the rank of Samurai. He was a man of African origin who served as a retainer and weapon-bearer to the Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful lord in Japan during that period.  Although there isn’t much historical documentation on Yasuke, there is enough to confirm his existence as the first real-life Black Samurai almost 450 years ago.