Frydenlund Pilsener
Ringnes Bryggeri (Carlsberg)
- From:
- Ringnes Bryggeri (Carlsberg)
- Norway
- Style:
- European Pale Lager
Ranked #230 - ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- 77
Ranked #38,184 - Avg:
- 3.09 | pDev: 23.3%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 13, 2025
- Added:
- Jan 31, 2007
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
77
Okay
77
Okay
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Reviewed by Thomas_Wikman from Texas
3.26/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.26/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Look: semi-clear golden with a snow white head
Aroma: bready malts
Flavor: The flavor is bready malts, mild hops, it is refreshing and crisp
Body/Overall: light body, maybe watery but thirst quenching.
Mar 05, 2025Aroma: bready malts
Flavor: The flavor is bready malts, mild hops, it is refreshing and crisp
Body/Overall: light body, maybe watery but thirst quenching.
Reviewed by Gatch from Massachusetts
3.54/5 rDev +14.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev +14.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
This beer is ubiquitous in Norway. Had a (relatively cheap) pint at a great burger joint in Moss. Similar to the Carlsberg flavor, nothing remarkable. Just a traditional mass produced lager for easy drinking.
Sep 21, 2023
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.12/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.12/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
This was my favourite Oslo pilsener many years ago when Frydenlund Bryggeri existed in its own right, but Ringnes' revival of the brew is not bad - it just isn't quite as fresh and spritzy as i remember it. (But then my memory isn't what it used to be, either...) Well, this is a light golden, medium hopped pils, perhaps more rounded than a pils ought to be, well worth sampling but nothing that will linger in your dreams.
Jul 05, 2022
Rated by Bjorska
4.25/5 rDev +37.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +37.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
One of the best Norwegian. Very classical.
Jul 05, 2022Rated by Justin11 from California
5/5 rDev +61.8%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +61.8%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Best beer and close to a fine champagne a beer can get! Safeway stores used to carry it but now its unavailable! Miss it very much!
Nov 11, 2017
Reviewed by TheDeuce from New York
2.43/5 rDev -21.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
2.43/5 rDev -21.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
Fydenlund Pilsner…..on tap at the bar at Radisson Scandinavia Hotel in Oslo, Norway
Noticed this one along with Ringnes and thought it might’ve been a competitor. Apparently it’s the same exact brewer. Oh well.
Appearance-pale golden color, thick white head about one finger high. Decent carbonation and in the glass it was served in, not bad looking.
Smell-airy with a mix of light grain and alcohol, more of a straw mix, again fairly clean but inoffensive.
Taste/Mouthfeel-light mouthfeel, grain appears and leaves quickly, clean all around, alcohol and adjuncts as well, flavors of corn drift in an out, final straw taste on the tongue for the finish.
Overall-inoffensive but just another Euro Pale that is indistinguishable from many others. A shame.
Sep 17, 2011Noticed this one along with Ringnes and thought it might’ve been a competitor. Apparently it’s the same exact brewer. Oh well.
Appearance-pale golden color, thick white head about one finger high. Decent carbonation and in the glass it was served in, not bad looking.
Smell-airy with a mix of light grain and alcohol, more of a straw mix, again fairly clean but inoffensive.
Taste/Mouthfeel-light mouthfeel, grain appears and leaves quickly, clean all around, alcohol and adjuncts as well, flavors of corn drift in an out, final straw taste on the tongue for the finish.
Overall-inoffensive but just another Euro Pale that is indistinguishable from many others. A shame.
Reviewed by Chambic from California
1.45/5 rDev -53.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5
1.45/5 rDev -53.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5
A: clear golden, not too much head
S: like rotten (okay, maybe overripe AT BEST) apricots
T: no taste upfront, like drinking water, followed by a light malt finish
M: an explosion of carbonation, it's actually refreshingly fizzy
T: would not do this again, would rather have a green can of Carlsberg
Notes from 02.13.10 at Revolver in Oslo
Jun 15, 2010S: like rotten (okay, maybe overripe AT BEST) apricots
T: no taste upfront, like drinking water, followed by a light malt finish
M: an explosion of carbonation, it's actually refreshingly fizzy
T: would not do this again, would rather have a green can of Carlsberg
Notes from 02.13.10 at Revolver in Oslo
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