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Saku Originaal 2.03 151

Saku Originaal

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
1512/5.02.03/5.04.6%41.9Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker
Commercial Description:
Saku's original pils.
Saku Originaal is a light high-quality beer with a mild taste and pleasant aroma, which Saku brews of its own yeast, water, and selected malt and hops. Saku Originaal is Estonia’s first on beer of the new era, which came on sale in 1993. With its innovative attitude, Saku Originaal has always been an active player in the Estonian beer market, a creator of new packaging and taste trends. The leading local beer is today the most popular beer brand in Estonia, “The Right Estonian Beer, which expresses the characteristics, life and dreams of Estonian men.
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 HogTownHarry (4026), Toronto (Harbourfront), Ontario, Canada
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/56/102/510/20
Oct 20, 2005  
Bottle (500ml). Poured almost clear pale gold with a big foamy white head. Aroma’s moderately nasty - corn, chemical, bit of skunky malt - cheap EuroLager. Taste isn’t bad - somewhat sweet malt, wet cardboard, mild grain and cleanly free of most adjuncts - gets a tad harsh on warming. Mouthfeel a bit oily and flat. I’ve had Eurolagers way worse than this rated a lot higher.


 Dorqui (1365), Brescia, Italy
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/56/101/510/20
Oct 11, 2005  
Limited and much fading head. Yellow limpid color, clearly and little bubbly. Apparently extinguished and firm. Light malty scent, enough acceptable. Firm but fresh taste, detaches malty and grainy rumors. Balanced and little pungent, pleasant on the end.


 Pernille (518), Copenhagen, Denmark
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/56/20
May 14, 2005  
(According to this bottle, it’s 4,6 alc%) Golden regular lagercolor. fizzy head disappears quickly. Aroma is very hoppy and not bad. But the beer itself is too carbonated for my taste. It lacks roundness and body. And as usual with baltic beers there’s a metallic tang. The palate is very hoppy and ot particularly pleasant.


 Papsoe (15180), Frederiksberg, Denmark
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/510/20
Apr 22, 2005    Updated: Jun 16, 2005
(Bottle 50 cl) Golden, limited head. Subdued bitterness, but extremely dry. High drinkability. 310105


 jde123 (715), Washington, Washington DC, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/59/20
Apr 6, 2005  
One of the better Estonian beers I have had, while being extremely similar in almost every respect to everything else I have encountered, this one is among my favorites. Cheap and decent.


 Jukkabro (3039), Tampere, Finland
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/102/57/20
Mar 31, 2005  
ABV 5.2%. Standard lager color, no head. Mildly sweet and honey aroma. Thin to medium bodied. Flavor has also some sweet honey tones, ends with some metallic notes and lasting sweetness. Also mild alcohol comes up. No carbonation.


 oh6gdx (9125), Vasa, Finland
1.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/52/102/57/20
Feb 21, 2005  
Bottled. Yellow coloured with big white head. Malt and hops in aroma. Very smooth taste compared to aroma. Mainly malt and hops in taste. Semi-bitter taste. Disappointment compared with other Saku’s I’ve had.


 cfranz (261), Acton, Massachusetts, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/58/20
Jan 16, 2005  
I did not mind this beer. It kind of reminded me of the beers I would drink when I lived in the Soviet Union, which were, admittedly, kind of crappy (Zhigulevskoe, anybody). A beer distributor once told me that he would not stock Russian beers because he did not like the taste of cardboard. Yeah, this sort of tastes like cardboard. But in a good way.



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