Cerveza Imperial (Costa Rica)

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

Nov. 2014: Shared bottle at local tasting. ABV is 4.6%. Golden colour, low white head. .Dusty, grainy and slightly sweetish unappealing aroma. Bland flavour, dusty notes, minimal bitterness, extremely boring.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Pours clear gold with minute long bright white head. The aroma has notes of over sweet malts mixing with a bit of floral and earthy hops. The taste has a carbonation enhanced bite of bitter hops and a touch of acidity. About midway earthiness makes some noise for a moment our two. Behind the initial burst are mild notes of sweet and grainy malts. It smells like a beer that will quickly end up too sweet but it really never does.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Clear darker yellow with no foam head present. Aroma is that of cheap mass produced pale ale, and so is taste. Can imagine this tastes great when laying on a white sandy beach though. But helas, I am in Houston. (Houston 201310)

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours a clear golden color with a thin white head that dissipates quickly which has some nice, creamy lacing. The aroma is sweet, skunky, and slightly corny. The taste is pale malts, very corny and bready, with a little skunk. It has a nice bitterness to it. The mouthfeel is medium body with mild carbonation. The carbonation gives it somewhat of a creamy texture. Overall I like this beer a lot. It's very crisp. Perfect for a hot day on the beach or with some good hot spicy Mexican food.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

A sturdy Lager, not bad, not great. I can see it being a favorite local beer for the indigenous peoples of Costa Rica, and rightly so. Just another lager that does its job.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Canned beer. Poured a clear pale gold colored beer with a two fingers white creamy foamy head that had a good retention. Active carbonation. Good lacing. The aroma is light grainy malts, straw, hay, barnyard. The flavour is very mild; may be a sweety water with a slight bitterness touch. This light bodied beer has a short dry finish. Surely a quenching beer but certainly not a tasting beer.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Sampled in Costa Rica! Clear gold with a moderate white head with a little retention. Flavors are light with some sweetness consisting of wheat, grains and light fruit. Very mild bitterness. Not a lot there but no skunk or foul flavors either. Very clean and actually rather refreshing. I’m sure getting it fresh from near the source makes a difference.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 4

An average latin american brew. A clear yellow body, not much carbonation with a thin fizzy head. Aroma and flavors of sweet malt, grass, and a slight bitterness, sticky mouthfeel. Overall you can judge this 'book' by its cover.