Imperial Fil
Brauerei Flügge in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany 🇩🇪
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.39
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Imperial Fil - mit Milchsäurebakterien, Kveik und Brettanomyces Bruxellensis vergoren, anschließend auf Püree von schwarzer Johannisbeere gelagert.
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8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle at home, 23rd April 2021. Pours a murky, dark red brown purée. Aroma is berry, plum skin, tart. Taste is fruit skins, stone of fruits, plum, tart and unripe, wood, funk and sour. It’s really complex and pretty sour. Excellent again from Flugge.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2021
at 19:44
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bought online from Sophie's Beer Store and drunk at home. Dark brownish red with a light pink ring of head. Light berry aroma mixed with vinegar and soy. Intense sour taste, which gets no lift from the currant's sweetness. Long finish which is just as sour as the first blossom of the sip. A fruit sour for grown-up, not one of these alcopop type beers. Great.
Tried
on 02 Dec 2020
at 22:47
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml bottle. Murky, purple-brown colour with small, frothy, half-way lasting, moderately lacing, beige head. Fruity, lactic, minimally bretty aroma, notes of blackcurrant, a touch of sauerkraut, yoghurt, laurel. Taste is sour, lactic, fruity and moderately bretty, funky, notes of blackcurrant, hints of vinegar and sauerkraut, some yoghurt, chocolate yoghurt, a herbal touch of laurel. Mushy-watery texture, slightly astringent palate, fine, prickly carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2020
at 22:57
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
330ml bottle from Chez Sophie, Shrewsbury. Pours a deep hazed purple, good frothy off-white / pale crimson head. Interesting fruity nose, sour impressions, yeast and delicate red berry. Taste is super sharp, great prickly clarity with berry stork and pips, good sour tang with distant dark roast providing woody roasty murmurs on the finish. Excellent complex sour with impressive depths of flavours for those willing to take their time with this beer. A great introduction to this brewery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2019
at 21:38
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2019
at 19:49
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
@ BXL Beer Fest. Dark reddish colour, white foam. Fruity, lots of berries, funk, lactic sourness. Well balanced and easy drinkable.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2019
at 12:17
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Dark red and cloudy. Aroma and flavour have loads of red fruits. Strong flavour. Full body.
Tried
on 31 Aug 2019
at 16:37
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
0.33 l bottle from the brewery's web shop, bottled in June 2019. Hazy, very dark ruby with a thin, frothy, almost stable, off-white head. Sweetish-malty, slightly sourish, fairly fruity and slightly roasty aroma of blackcurrant and coffee. Slightly sweet, gently sour, rather fruity and slightly roasty taste of lots of blackcurrant, elderberry, lemon, coffee and chocolate, followed by a medium long, rather tart, slightly roasty and a little dry finish. Medium to full body, smooth, gently astringent and moderately effervescent mouthfeel, average carbonation. Lovely beer, very intense but also with a stunning combination of sourness, roasty flavours and fruit, supported by a relatively full body for a sour beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2019
at 19:24
8/10
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Aug 2019
at 15:56