Freigeist Bierkultur
Client Brewer
in
Stolberg,
North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany 🇩🇪
Associated Webshop: Bierkompass
- Out of business
Established in 2009
Contact
Diepenlinchener Str. 20, Stolberg, 52224, Germany
Subsidiaries
Description
Craft beer in its purest form is what Sebastian Sauer, the head behind Freigeist beer culture, produces. Sebastian is known among experts as one of the first craft beer brewers in Germany. True or not, he's a veteran in the craft beer scene and an expert who is second to none. It's not for nothing that his beers are more popular than any other German beer in the USA, the home of craft beer.
Free spirit beer culture is conquering the craft beer world with the salvation of old, long-forgotten beer styles. Sebastian reads himself into the matter until he has found out all the ingredients of the original recipe and the subtleties and secrets of the old brewing style. With this knowledge, he then ponders how the beer would be brewed these days and what ingredients would be used. He doesn't want to bring old camels out of grandma's handbag to the light of day, but rather to transport the beers of the past with skill and expertise into the present. His beers are therefore not just reproductions of old recipes, but rather modern new editions. With this concept, the brewery has made a good name for itself in the craft beer scene and attracted international attention.
Free spirit beer culture is conquering the craft beer world with the salvation of old, long-forgotten beer styles. Sebastian reads himself into the matter until he has found out all the ingredients of the original recipe and the subtleties and secrets of the old brewing style. With this knowledge, he then ponders how the beer would be brewed these days and what ingredients would be used. He doesn't want to bring old camels out of grandma's handbag to the light of day, but rather to transport the beers of the past with skill and expertise into the present. His beers are therefore not just reproductions of old recipes, but rather modern new editions. With this concept, the brewery has made a good name for itself in the craft beer scene and attracted international attention.
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at Lajbah, Ljubljana. Cloudy golden with medium white head. Malty, some hay, light grassy notes, tad sweet with bitterish finish.
Tried
from Draft
at
Pivnica Lajbah
on 11 Sep 2023
at 16:10
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
330ml @ Matt's new place. Appearance: hazy brown with almost no head. Aroma: some dark fruits, a bit of smoke and booze. Taste: quite sweet, bitter, inky and very boozy. Overall: f@ck, this is a boozy mess.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2023
at 05:52
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
This one looks murky, no head, just an opaque light brown liquid. On the nose, it's a bit rough, alcoholic, I mean there's not much here but booze. The malt base is there, but doesn't offer anything interesting, and where you'd like complexity or fruitiness, there is none. Just not getting anywhere for me.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2023
at 05:45
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
330mL bottle, pours a deep dark mahogany with a tiny head. Aroma brings out lots of caramel, dark sugars, and booze in good integration. Flavour is extremely boozy and hot as hell, with lots of caramel, messy malts, booze, chaotic sugars. Man, this is all over the place, and tastes like even more than 14%. Harsh, chaotic and unrefined. No good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2023
at 05:44
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Poured from 330mL bottle (bb 18.08.2025). Dark brown with no head. Woody, a bit harsh booziness, some dark fruits, rough around the edges.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2023
at 05:44
7.5/10
Yet another collab with Orca. This is only lightly smoked. Quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2023
at 11:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, 330 ml at Ambasada. Hazy dark orange with medium white head. Caramel, malty, toasted, some nuts, sweetish. Bitter finish. Light to medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Ambasada.
on 05 Sep 2023
at 19:39
4.6/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 6
Säuerlicher Geruch, Most, Zitrusnoten. Saurer Start mit vinösen Noten, zitronig, Essignoten. Die Säure bleibt intensiv, weiße Trauben, etwas brennend. Ziemlich unsüffig, in höchstem Maße speziell. 8/7/4/9/10/8
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2023
at 20:42
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2023
at 23:19
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Alehub. Hazy amber red with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, dried fruit, wood and light hoppy - citrus. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish with lots of alcohol. Oily. 190823
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2023
at 19:34