Prykmestar Nokkos Pils
Vakka-Suomen Panimo
- From:
- Vakka-Suomen Panimo
- Finland
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.31 | pDev: 4.83%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 25, 2015
- Added:
- Jun 18, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.15/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.15/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
This is a pilsner brewed with nettle. 5.20%. I believe it's a summer seasonal.
Review from a 50cl brown glass bottle purchased at Alko Arkadia in Helsinki and served cold into a pilsner glass. Expectations are above average on account of the brewery. Reviewed live as an herbed pilsner.
HEAD: .5 inches wide. White colour. Decent creaminess, frothiness, and thickness. Average complexion. Leaves no lacing as it recedes. Retention is average (~2 minutes).
BODY: Cloudy pale copper of average vibrance. Seems less filtered than most pilsners, though there's not any visible yeast or anything.
It's decent looking for a pilsner, but lacks any unique or special characteristics.
AROMA: The nettle is definitely there, lending this a unique but not entirely pleasant plant-emphatic aroma, with supplementary notes of herb and mint. Pilsner malts are barely noticeable beneath the dominant nettle. While the plant is obvious, I wouldn't know it was nettle if I tried this blind.
Aromatic intensity is average. No yeast character, booze, or off-notes is/are detectable.
TASTE: The plant/nettle is just as evident in the taste as it was in the aroma, and dominates the beer. The pilsner malts at the heart of the beer are pretty neutral, bending to the nettle's emphasis easily. I don't find much in the way of grassy Saaz or Noble hops; no hop profile is noticeable.
Average depth, duration, and intensity of flavour. It's simple, true to the pilsner style, but lacks the usual subtlety of the style.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, light-bodied, crisp, and clean. More of a frothiness would be nice. It's refreshing, but I think the nettle holds it back. Overcarbonated.
OVERALL: The texture complements the taste nicely, but there's not a harmony or perfect marriage between the two. It's a balanced herbed pilsner, but it's not gestalt, and the nettle never quite fits in - at least not as seamlessly as it should. Still, it's more than just a novelty or gimmick beer, offering interesting nettle notes for bitterness instead of the usual grassy hops. I'll enjoy finishing the bottle, but at this price point it's not a beer I'd buy again. At the very least, the discerning drinker will find the nettle interesting - even if it doesn't work as well it as needs to.
C+ (3.15)
Jun 18, 2015Review from a 50cl brown glass bottle purchased at Alko Arkadia in Helsinki and served cold into a pilsner glass. Expectations are above average on account of the brewery. Reviewed live as an herbed pilsner.
HEAD: .5 inches wide. White colour. Decent creaminess, frothiness, and thickness. Average complexion. Leaves no lacing as it recedes. Retention is average (~2 minutes).
BODY: Cloudy pale copper of average vibrance. Seems less filtered than most pilsners, though there's not any visible yeast or anything.
It's decent looking for a pilsner, but lacks any unique or special characteristics.
AROMA: The nettle is definitely there, lending this a unique but not entirely pleasant plant-emphatic aroma, with supplementary notes of herb and mint. Pilsner malts are barely noticeable beneath the dominant nettle. While the plant is obvious, I wouldn't know it was nettle if I tried this blind.
Aromatic intensity is average. No yeast character, booze, or off-notes is/are detectable.
TASTE: The plant/nettle is just as evident in the taste as it was in the aroma, and dominates the beer. The pilsner malts at the heart of the beer are pretty neutral, bending to the nettle's emphasis easily. I don't find much in the way of grassy Saaz or Noble hops; no hop profile is noticeable.
Average depth, duration, and intensity of flavour. It's simple, true to the pilsner style, but lacks the usual subtlety of the style.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, light-bodied, crisp, and clean. More of a frothiness would be nice. It's refreshing, but I think the nettle holds it back. Overcarbonated.
OVERALL: The texture complements the taste nicely, but there's not a harmony or perfect marriage between the two. It's a balanced herbed pilsner, but it's not gestalt, and the nettle never quite fits in - at least not as seamlessly as it should. Still, it's more than just a novelty or gimmick beer, offering interesting nettle notes for bitterness instead of the usual grassy hops. I'll enjoy finishing the bottle, but at this price point it's not a beer I'd buy again. At the very least, the discerning drinker will find the nettle interesting - even if it doesn't work as well it as needs to.
C+ (3.15)
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