Imperial
Imperial is the Costa Rican beer brand that Cervecería Ortega launched in 1924. Today it is brewed by Cervecería Costa Rica in Heredia, and the range runs from Imperial Original to Silver, Light, Ultra and the alcohol-free Cero. The brand marked its 100 years in 2024 with 50 collectible can designs telling stories of Costa Rica.
Beers by Imperial
2 beers
The recurring character behind the beers
Imperial have 2 beers in the catalogue.
Across these 2 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Only what these two beers agree on — a full signature needs at least three.
Two beers isn't enough to tell how they differ from comparable breweries.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
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About Imperial
Imperial is the Costa Rican beer brand that Cervecería Ortega launched in 1924. Today it is brewed by Cervecería Costa Rica in Heredia, and the range runs from Imperial Original to Silver, Light, Ultra and the alcohol-free Cero. The brand marked its 100 years in 2024 with 50 collectible can designs telling stories of Costa Rica.
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