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.
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours orange with a small white head. Sour, smokey and spicy nose. Tastes a bit like sour apricots. Ends smooth, wheaty a smokey. Drinkable and refreshing, but not very complex.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2010
at 13:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Bottle at One Pint Pub) Poured orangish brown and cloudy. Head was almost non-existent. Aroma contained fruitiness, sourness and smoke. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were smoke, frutiness, sourness, acidiness, berriess and mild bitterness. Aftertaste contained acidiness, grilled sausage and mildly bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2010
at 06:54
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Black with a tiny beige head. Sweet aroma with smoke, burned malt, dark chocolate, ashes and hints of anise. Flavour had burned malt, smoke, anise, dark chocolate and ashes. Finished smoked and fairly dry. Not bad.
Tried
on 15 Jun 2010
at 09:09
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled. A pitch black beer with no head. The aroma has notes roasted malt, rye, and some soy sauce. The flavor is sweet and acidic with notes of burnt malt, ash, roasted malt, alcohol, and soy sauce, leading to a dry alcoholic and roasted finish. Thanks yespr for sharing. The body is thick.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2010
at 09:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 37,5 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Pours a murky and opaque dark brown with a tiny beige head. Aroma has hard roasted malt and tar. Solid body, rather low in carbonation, hard roasted malt, smoke and tar. Quite some alcohol in the finish and lots of hard roasted malt. A rather rough Imperial Stout. 150610
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2010
at 09:05
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
37.5 cL bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is smoked and dark roasted malt. Dark malty, liqourice and mild smoked flavoured. Dark malty flavoured. Mild acidic hard roasted note. Ends with a lasting liqourice and dark malty note into the far finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2010
at 09:05
3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Bottled. An unclear yellow beer with a thin white head. The aroma has notes of smoke, malt, and a bit of caramel. The flavor is sweet and sour with notes of smoke, lemon, and brettanomyces, leading to a sour finish. Thanks yespr for sharing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2010
at 09:02
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Hazy orange with a medium white head. Aroma had smoke, rubber, lacto and wheat notes. Flavour was slightly sour with smoke, wheat, lacto and rubber. Smoke infection I presume.
Tried
on 15 Jun 2010
at 09:01
3.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
37.5 cL bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is smoked and mild citric. Smoked off flavour and citric. Citric finish. Sadly off.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2010
at 08:59
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle 37,5 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Pours a cloudy and almost opaque golden with a small rough white head. Aroma of burned rubber with an edge of tartness and metal. Light body, low in carbonation, lactic tartness and loads of burned rubber. Dry finish. The smoke must be some sort of weird infection. 150610
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2010
at 08:59