Cerveza Imperial
Florida Ice and Farm Company (FIFCO) in Heredia, Heredia, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.40
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Costa Ricans have been enjoying this beer since 1924. Imperial is created from a balanced formula combining malts, grains and hops, without a pronounced overtone in its taste. It is what is known as a “centralized” beer. Adapted to a warm and spring-like climate, Imperial is Florida’s most popular and widely accepted beer, both nationally and internationally, and has thus become the favorite beer of Costa Rica.
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4.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3.5
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 4
Small, persistent white head over crystal clear metallic golden beer. Sweetish, grainy nose with a faint vanilla-like note, dull. Classical, probably adjunct-laden sweet malty flavour. Dull. The aftertaste becomes, also classical for this type of international lager, metallic. Light and very slick, almost undercarbonated. Too bad. Litteraly and figuratively. Txs to Stef!
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2026
at 07:53
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 5
Overall 5
Tried
from Can
on 26 Nov 2025
at 16:06
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
My beer of choice for my week in Costa Rica, January 2009. I packed a 330ml bottle for my home collection. It pours golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of crackers, corn, grain, hints of citrus, hay, flora & malt. Moderate body. Dry moderate bitter finish. Enjoyable enough served cold
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2025
at 15:02
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Bottle. Not very good. Yellow color. Some head. Aroma is watery, slight skunk. Taste is watery, no hops and slight malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2025
at 04:43
4.5/10
Country #100 - Costa Rica 🇨🇷
I did it!! 100 different countries, of which 98 I found in person and 2 were souvenirs from friends’ travels.
I just wish the 100th country was represented by something nicer than an under-average musty lager.
I did it!! 100 different countries, of which 98 I found in person and 2 were souvenirs from friends’ travels.
I just wish the 100th country was represented by something nicer than an under-average musty lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2025
at 19:28
5/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 5
Bottle brought back from Costa Rica. Aroma has citrus and yeas. Malts. Metallicedge. BAU lager aroma. Clear gold. Foamy translucent white head. Sour. Citrusy. Bitter edge - grainy and metallic. Underlying malts. Light. Thin. Soft carbonation. Long dry slightly astringent finish. Standard inoffensive lager.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Dec 2024
at 00:00
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2024
at 19:01
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle from Drinks of the world, St. Gallen. It is clear golden with a white head. The aroma is sweet, malt and straw. The taste is sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jul 2024
at 20:21
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Pours gold. Grain, floral, plum, cracker, little sulfur. Medium body. Fine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2024
at 18:19
4.5/10
Tried
on 10 Jun 2023
at 17:48