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Imperialist
De Struise Brouwers
- From:
- De Struise Brouwers
- Belgium
- Style:
- Imperial Pilsner
Ranked #20 - ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- 85
Ranked #21,283 - Avg:
- 3.74 | pDev: 12.03%
- Reviews:
- 5
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 03, 2023
- Added:
- Jan 23, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 8
No description / notes.
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Ratings by Marius:
Reviewed by Marius from Netherlands
3.59/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Absolutely opaque golden orange brew, with a vigurous head. Smells like Belgian yeast and generally like a Belgian pale ale. Bitter pilsner-like taste, with a metallic taste and yeast all the way. Medium body and a bit high on carbonation, making this a bit tough to swallow. Decent, overall.
Sep 18, 2015More User Ratings:
Reviewed by tigg924 from Massachusetts
4.15/5 rDev +11%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev +11%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Pours clear, gold in color with 1/2 inch head. Taste is pear, grass, and grain. Bitter, medium-light bodied, with moderate carbonation. Makes for a tasty, bitter, Belgian style lager. Would get this again.
Jul 24, 2019Rated by josanguapo from Spain
4/5 rDev +7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
No tiene nada que me recuerde a una pilsen sino el sabor como a mermelada que encuentro en algunas elaboraciones belgas, muy bien ejecutado
Nov 06, 2018Reviewed by mynie from Maryland
4.43/5 rDev +18.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.43/5 rDev +18.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Semi-dechiperable code on the top of the bottle seemed to suggest this was brewed in 2014. That the latest BA review was written 9 months ago does not augur well for this bottle's freshness. But, still, it pretty strong, and the folks at De Struise know a thing or two about making beers that can last. Let's see how it aged.
Pours pretty gorgeous. Bright, sunshiney yellow-orange with a rocky and retentive white head.
Smells like a straight-up old world pils, medium hoppy, perhaps leaning a bit more toward a Czech than a Municher, but impressively without a whit of its elevated ABV. Boozy pilseners rarely work (some are actively repulsive), so this is quite nice.
Tastes more Belgiany than it smells. Basically it's like a firm-but-delicate european pils up front, and then yeasty a Belgian pale in the back. Starts with grassy malt and sharp hops (I think they're Czech, but I can't be sure--after 3ish years, they certainly taste more Czech than Belgian or German). The ending is a more earthy malt combined with a spicy Belgian yeast, and the yeast lingers pleasantly on the finish, as if it were a good dubbel.
So, this beer is quite stylistically bold, but it manages to pull off what I assume the brewers intended for it.
May 09, 2017Pours pretty gorgeous. Bright, sunshiney yellow-orange with a rocky and retentive white head.
Smells like a straight-up old world pils, medium hoppy, perhaps leaning a bit more toward a Czech than a Municher, but impressively without a whit of its elevated ABV. Boozy pilseners rarely work (some are actively repulsive), so this is quite nice.
Tastes more Belgiany than it smells. Basically it's like a firm-but-delicate european pils up front, and then yeasty a Belgian pale in the back. Starts with grassy malt and sharp hops (I think they're Czech, but I can't be sure--after 3ish years, they certainly taste more Czech than Belgian or German). The ending is a more earthy malt combined with a spicy Belgian yeast, and the yeast lingers pleasantly on the finish, as if it were a good dubbel.
So, this beer is quite stylistically bold, but it manages to pull off what I assume the brewers intended for it.
Reviewed by puboflyons from New Hampshire
3.41/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.41/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
From the 11.2 fl. oz. bottle. 2015 Vintage. Sampled on August 3, 2016.
A kind of murky orange-light amber pour underneath a boisterous but quick lasting foamy white head.
There is toasted bread, barley malt, and a slight herbal note in the aroma but not the grassy character I expect from a PIlsener. Low hop profile.
Medium body.
The taste has a slight toasted bread character with a semi-sweetness I might expect from a pIlsener but just not cracker-like enough for my tastes. The finish lingers some and has a moderate bitterness.
Aug 03, 2016A kind of murky orange-light amber pour underneath a boisterous but quick lasting foamy white head.
There is toasted bread, barley malt, and a slight herbal note in the aroma but not the grassy character I expect from a PIlsener. Low hop profile.
Medium body.
The taste has a slight toasted bread character with a semi-sweetness I might expect from a pIlsener but just not cracker-like enough for my tastes. The finish lingers some and has a moderate bitterness.
Imperialist from De Struise Brouwers
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
46 ratings
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