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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.
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Freigeist Bierkultur owns 2 breweries/brands:
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7.9/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Intensiv malziger Beginn. Vollmundig, rauchig, deutliche Bitternoten, intensiv. Würzig, minimal schokoladig, Kakao, alkoholisch. Rauchig bleibend, langer Abgang, gut. 11/12/12/12//12
Tried from Draft on 27 Jul 2023 at 18:09

5/10
Intense sticky grainy beginning. Deep alcoholic sticky, hard to drink.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Jul 2023 at 23:51

6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle at Ambasada for the RBESG23 shindig. Hazy ochre body, off-white head. Yeasty aroma, some sweet and tart apple. Light odd yeasty notes, trace vomit, but in general quite okay. Lean, tart apple taste, quite tart too. Not more than okay honestly, expected more, still, the last bottle they had and it was outside of the fridge so it could've gone bad.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jul 2023 at 08:49

7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
330mL bottle, pours jet black with a medium dark brown head. Aroma is intense, with lots of molasses, deep dark cocoa, and a touch of iodine. Flavour is much the same and is absolutely intense, with lots of iodine, medium roasted malt, light saline, molasses, and very dry cocoa. Finishes bitter, with saline, deep roast and iodine. Not exactly a work of art -- pretty brutal. Not a refined beer, but it's a fun extreme one.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jul 2023 at 04:29

6.4/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
330ml bottle. Brown-ish, dark purple colour with small, frothy, diminishing, minimally lacing, off-white to beige head. Sweet-ish, yeasty fruity and wheaty, slightly caramel malty aroma, notes of honey, banana, some blueberry, whiffs of leather. Taste is wheaty and caramel malty, yeasty fruity and yeasty spicy, hints of banana, honey, some clove, unripe blueberries; minimally warming, alcoholic finish. Watery texture, indifferent palate, medium, prickly carbonation. Not as fruity as expected, a bit disharmonious - so-so.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Jul 2023 at 20:17

6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Keg Haket Beerfest #6 2023-05-13 Göteborg AR: wee peach, Chinese tea, hint of bread AP: hazy coppery, frothy big head F: wee peach, Chinese tea, hint of bread
Tried on 15 Jul 2023 at 11:51

6/10
Sharp, acidic, apples, juicy, fizzy
Tried from Bottle on 14 Jul 2023 at 19:05

5.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle at Ambasada. Smells, looks and tastes like a raw must. Does not feel really fermented-out charcter-wise. There is medium sourness, light tartness and low sweetness, so that suggests that it indeed IS fermented out. But it tastes otherwise, just raw apples. It is pleasant enough, but as a cider it has to get a hard C- from me for being very boring.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Jul 2023 at 17:10

7.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
0.33 l bottle. RBESG23. Hazy golden, small off-white head. Rustic apple aroma, apple juice, yeast. Moderately sour, soft carbonation. Juicy, lemony sourness. Crunchy sour green apple finish.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Jul 2023 at 17:08

7.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Can at Ambasada bar, Zagreb. Hazy Pale color with minimal white head. Apples, light yeast in aroma. Taste is clear apples, cinnamon, light yeast.
Tried from Can on 14 Jul 2023 at 17:06