Saku Originaal
Saku Brewery LTD

Saku OriginaalSaku Originaal
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From:
Saku Brewery LTD
 
Estonia
Style:
American Adjunct Lager
ABV:
4.6%
Score:
69
Avg:
2.86 | pDev: 17.13%
Reviews:
47
Ratings:
88
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jun 10, 2020
Added:
Jul 23, 2002
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  11
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Ratings by biboergosum:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

2.8/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
This beer pours a slightly hazy pale straw colour, with lots of puffy white head, which leaves sparse lace around the glass. It smells of white cracker grain, and acrid grassy hops. The taste is sweet rice and cooked corn, and medicinal, skunky hops. The carbonation is moderate, the body fairly weighty, but cloying, and it finishes off-dry, with a sweet graininess.

Pretty average for the style, another run-of-the-mill Euro-lager.
Sep 10, 2009
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 2.93 by smi69 from New York

Jun 10, 2020
 
Rated: 2.88 by Rustli from Finland

Jul 02, 2018
 
Rated: 2.89 by Robertas from Lithuania

May 22, 2018
 
Rated: 2.59 by bmaggot from Lithuania

May 04, 2018
 
Rated: 3.08 by kylehay2004 from Illinois

May 27, 2017
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Colorado

2.8/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Reviewed from notes taken Summer 2014.

Served on-draught into a 33cl glass at a bar in Tallinn. Cost was 2 euro.

No bubble show forms as it's poured.

HEAD: 1 finger in height. Thin. Lacks creaminess. Poor uneven consistency. Subpar complexion. Recedes fully within 1 minute, leaving no lacing.

BODY: Clear translucent yellow/pale copper of average vibrance. Clean, lacking any visible yeast/lees.

Appears adequately carbonated. Not a unique or special appearance for the style. Pretty typical in terms of a macrobrew pilsner/lager.

AROMA: Overly sweet. Corn, low quality helles/pils malts, cheap generic barley. A kiss of grassy hop character - probably Noble. Evokes malt extract.

An inoffensive aroma of average aromatic intensity. I'm not too eager to try it.

TASTE & TEXTURE: Crisp, but not soft. Smooth, wet, fairly refreshing. Light-bodied. Slightly syrupy. Too thick on the palate.

Not oily, gushed, hot, astringent, harsh, rough, or scratchy.

Overly sweet malt syrup, helles/pils malts, and generic barley flavours are at the heart of this simple lager. Evokes malt extract. There's a brief kiss of grassy hop character.

It's fairly cohesive in build, but lacks balance, complexity and subtlety. Very pedestrian. Low depth of flavour. Brief flavour duration. Low flavour intensity.

OVERALL: A pedestrian adjunct pilsner. Not a good beer in the style, but passable for what it is. Meh.

Low C (2.80) / AVERAGE
May 03, 2017
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Reviewed by josanguapo from Spain

2.5/5  rDev -12.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
From Corte Ingles El Duque. In Bavaria glass. Playing Darksiders 2. Clean, watery with some sweetnees and grassy bitterness. Not unpleasant but boring
Mar 27, 2017
 
Rated: 2.15 by rex_4539 from Greece

Apr 11, 2016
 
Rated: 3.21 by myxy from Hungary

Jan 13, 2016
 
Rated: 2 by SassaDog from Iceland

Oct 25, 2015
 
Rated: 2.81 by djrn2 from New Jersey

Mar 28, 2015
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Rated by Est_Beer from Estonia

2.71/5  rDev -5.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
popular mainstream beer , but .... taste likes cheap German supermarket OEM beer
Mar 01, 2015
 
Rated: 2.74 by nigeldazooman from Virginia

Feb 04, 2015
 
Rated: 2.56 by Jarkkokosunen from Finland

Nov 28, 2014
 
Rated: 2.88 by mta11c from Florida

Nov 26, 2014
 
Rated: 2.5 by MattSweatshirt from Texas

Oct 10, 2014
 
Rated: 2.2 by DanielCole from Finland

Aug 15, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by DRTBrewster from Arizona

Jul 22, 2014
Saku Originaal from Saku Brewery LTD
Beer rating: 69 out of 100 with 88 ratings