Cerveza Imperial
Florida Ice and Farm Company (FIFCO) in Heredia, Heredia, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.41
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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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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can poured into pint glass. Clear light gold body with a thin fizzy white head. Aromas were enticing for a split a second while I thought this had a little nuance but I guess that all those complex lager aromas disippated very quickly, leaving behind a metallic corn beer nose. Flavor is beach lager at its core. Nearly flavorless apart from a little malt sweetness and a hint of hops. That said, I woke to black-mandibles toucans in the tree outside our lodging and saw sloths in the rainforest today, so this beer also tastes like sweet victory.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Aug 2017
at 15:45
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
At libf 2017. Thnx to Tinus for sharing ! Pours clear, wattery blonde. No real head. Smell is sweaty, full-on chemical maltyness. Taste is sharp, chemical malts. Bit dry, pointing probably at the used sugars ?
Tried
on 03 Jul 2017
at 11:06
4.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle, bb end 9/17. Pale orange with a collapsing white head. Aroma of grain, corn, cardboard, some grass. Watery, carbonation is lowish. Very low on flavour - a little vaguely grainy sweetness, some cardboard, grass. Bitterness is low but actually stands out enough given the almost blank background. Poor mainly by omission.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2017
at 08:25
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
The national standard lager from Costa Rica, from a can shared by the Belgian Ratebeer crew in Leuven, cheers guys. Snow white, loose and bubbly head, clear pale straw blonde colour. Aroma of damp cloth, popcorn, melting plastic, overcooked rice, touch of withering grass. Neutral, sweet grainy onset, popcorn-ish, thin with medium carbo, bit metallic, thin sweet-grainy, corn-like ending with a plastic hint but no hop bitterness worth noting - if any at all. Bland and boring as any industrial pale lager, even below average for this most industrialized of all beer styles, like many other Latin American ones. Nice for a country tick though...
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jun 2017
at 13:13
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Thanks to tderoeck! Can sampled @ LIBF 2017. Very pale golden. Nose is stinky vegetable, cooked, massively cooked vegetable, paper,... Taste is vegetable, mineral, cold vegetable, spoiled, far too cooked vegetable, paper,... Really poor & unpleasant,... Cooked vegetable body. Yikes.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jun 2017
at 12:48
4.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 3
Can share @ LIBF’17, thanks to Tderoeck for the share. Dorée, col blanc. Arôme au nez moyen typique des lagers basiques, douceur presque de maïs se ressent, grains en dominance et houblonné à la ramasse. Palais est malté, pils, maïs, douceur latente et amertume minimaliste.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jun 2017
at 17:42
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 3
From old tasting notes. gold color. Faint citrus malt nose. Tart sweet malt flavor. light and watery. very little flavor.
Tried
on 05 May 2017
at 19:02
Tried
on 29 Apr 2017
at 19:54
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Many thanks for this beer to CH-303. Piwo ma nawet fajna piane jak na egzotycznego lagera jest zastanawiajaco dlugo trwala, barwa slomkowa spore nagazowanie, w zasadzie to tu najbardziej przeszkadzalo. W smaku lekko wytrawne, lekkie ale blizej mu do pilsnera niz do lagera. Nie przypominalo tu tych kiepskich kukurydzianych slodow itp. Lekkie zaskoczenie choc szalu oczywiscie nie ma to tylko lagerek.
Tried
on 20 Mar 2017
at 13:43
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle. Practically aromaless and flavourless. It is hard to say what one should even rate here. Coloured water, slightly sweetish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2017
at 13:03