Freigeist Caulfield

Freigeist Bierkultur
Brewed at Gasthaus-Brauerei Braustelle
Style: Imperial Stout
Stolberg, Germany

Serve in Snifter

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(375ml bottle) Pours a black body with a spare tan head. Aroma of raisins, roasted malt, and prune juice. Flavor of roasted malt, tobacco, rye, soy sauce, dark chocolate, licorice, and ash.

dark bitter chocolate good foam persistent oily full body balanced slightly ethyl lighter sugar medium dry good persistence medium intensity

UPDATED: MAR 8, 2012 @london drinker festival 2012 Nose: tar, sweet fruit like dates. Appearance: jet black, with a dark creamy head settles to very thin Body: ash, more dates, slight bitterness Finish: sweet, with very slight hint of bitter.

375 ml bottle @ KBF.
Rated on 20101126.
Black color with small head. Aroma of tar, roasted malts and ripe fruits. Flavor of roasted malts, sourish fruits and ashy chocolate.

Draught at GBBF 2011 (8 %). Sweet, worty and roasty with dark bread, raisins, honey, tart fruitiness, chocolate, licorice, charcoal and some stingy alcohol. Fairly low bitterness. Good dark bread character but a bit too much tart alcohol.

375 ml bottle.
Pours a pitch black colour with a very small white head. Aroma of roasted malt, licorice and smoke. Flavour of roasted malts, salty licorice, smoked wood and some soy sauce. Medium bodied, slick mouthfeel and a finish of alcohol, roasted malts and loads of salty licorice. Nice and roasty, but a bit too salty and thin.

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.

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.

Bottle shared by ibrew2or3 @ Woodshed 1.0! Aroma of spice, cocoa, dark fruit, and smoke. Flavor shows the rye accompanied by soy, caramel, dark fruit, and char. Quite sweet.

Courtesy of barlewinedave! Nearly black, no head. Aroma has a little sulphur, molasses, chcoclate. Flavor is molasses, espresso, tingly bitterness. Oily texture.