Subsidiaries
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Wooden barrel @ Battersea BF 2012. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy yeasty aroma with hints of dark fruit and caramel. Sweetish fruity malty dark fruit flavor with hoppy hints. Has a fruity hoppy bitter dark fruit finish.
Tried
on 25 Feb 2012
at 04:43
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
37.5 ml. bottle split with Belgbeergeek – purchased @ Alvinne: (A) dark brown with a touch of amber & red berry smooth plus seriously tanned head – (S) lots of sweet malts with plenty of caramel and quite a bit of hops integrated seamlessly into the whole, hint of red fruits, slight funkiness, once I have tasted it, I can get some sour malt from this but not before, the smell has nothing to do whatsoever with the taste, never had that before – (T) complete surprise after the smell, this reminds me of an “oud bruin”, this is a sour beer? probably infected but phenomenally infected, this beats the regular Rodenbach (closest comparison), sour “oud bruin” malt, mixed with sour red fruits, lots of berries, wood, slight mellow acidity, damn, this starts our really like an “oud bruin” leading into some moderate sweetness, sweeter malts, fruity, caramel, traces of americanish, slight grapefruit hops, this is freaking weird, love it – (B) medium, easy going sour body with still some malt characteristics, slightly dry & touch acidic – is Freigeist the German Fantôme
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2012
at 22:32
6.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
375ml bottle. Hazy pale golden colour with no head - just a thin white layer cultivates. Several aromas work together, giving the impression of an hotpot with a smoked meat "garnish". More analytical, the smoke note domains a sour note, both resting on a cooked vegetable basis. Taste is predominantly sour, also smokey in an integrated way, astonishingly strong for 3.8% abv. Very interesting, exceptional and not bad - but with the touch of "astonishing, what else counts as beer " and not one immediately calling for a second round.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2012
at 10:32
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask gravity @ Battersea BF 2012. Pours a black color with a longlasting tan head. Has a roasted malty licorice aroma with hints of chocolate. Roasted malty licorice and chocoalte flavor. Has a roasted malty licorice finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Feb 2012
at 05:31
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottled, at tasting at _angst_. Hazy pale golden, coarse head. Smoky rubber aroma. Appley sourness with dandelion and loads of rubber. Light bodied and rather harsh. Citric acid finish with some burning tires. So far my encounters with Freigeist has been all but pleasant - gimmicky flawed beers. Hope I’ve just been unlucky...
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2012
at 15:02
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
375 ml bottle bought @ Bierkompass.de. Shared at epic tasting on February 11. Pours slightly hazy yellow with a white head that leaves some lacing while dissipating. Smell is tart, fruity and floral with unripe pears, dandelions, rubber, lemon juice, apples and hay. Taste is sour with rubber, pears, green apples and herbs. Weird and slightly artificial chemical taste. Mouthfeel is very sour, slightly watery and slightly dry. Finish is tart with dandelions and green apples.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2012
at 18:46
4.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottled 0.375 l at the epic sour beer tasting at _angst_ place, on February 11, 2012Brought by _angst_, thanks!Cloudy pale yellow color, small white head. Sweet, sugary, dandelion, "piggelin", acidic scent. Acidic, sour, cardboard, rubber, green apples/acetaldehyde taste. Very thin mouthfeel, very low bitterness.Nice scent, not so nice taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2012
at 05:05
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
375mL large mouth green bottle, picked up in Cologne, pours up mahogany with very little head. The aroma is fruity with sweet dark fruity esters followed by sugary beet sugars, molasses, spicy rye notes and more molasses like sugars. The taste begins with lots of notes going from spicy rye to wheated like malts to dark candy sugars to molasses and sweet dark fruity esters. The rye mixes with various smooth vague hops keeping the overall flavor lively amidst all the sweetness going on here. It seems to approach maltiness and roasted maltiness but doesn’t actually get there which is odd for the style. Interesting stuff nonetheless.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2012
at 18:28
9.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Herber, kräftig röstmalziger Beginn mit hefig-herbem Hintergrund. Schnell in geordnetem Rahmen intensiver werdend, vollmundige Kaffeenoten, dann neben Schokoladennoten auch bittere Aromen. Langer röstiger und malziger Ausklang mit erdig herben Aromen, spät noch bitterer, dennoch sehr weich & vor allem vollmundig. Super! 12/13/14/14//13
Tried
on 26 Jan 2012
at 04:36
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
At ACBF 2011. Bizarre, sour, salt, rosemary. too much herb for me. Pretty much too herby for a beer in my opinion.
Tried
on 29 Dec 2011
at 03:09