Onnenpekka
Teerenpeli Panimo & Tislaamo
- From:
- Teerenpeli Panimo & Tislaamo
- Finland
- Style:
- German Pilsner
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.35 | pDev: 15.82%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 02, 2024
- Added:
- Apr 13, 2006
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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Onnenpekka Pils is a refreshing bottom fermented, lightly hopped beer. It is pale in colour and is light and aromatic in the mouth. This charming lager is made with the finest Finnish Pilsner malts.
Onnenpekka is one of our oldest beers; we have proudly brewed it since 1997.
Onnenpekka is one of our oldest beers; we have proudly brewed it since 1997.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by smcolw from Massachusetts
3.77/5 rDev +12.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +12.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Straw colored and crystal clear. Good starting head which settles slowly. Wide streaks and small spots for lace.
A bit grainy nose with a very light earthy hop background.
The malt starts softly with a decent body. The carbonation is slightly elevated. The hop is sharp, biting, and dry leaving a longer aftertaste.
Sep 02, 2024A bit grainy nose with a very light earthy hop background.
The malt starts softly with a decent body. The carbonation is slightly elevated. The hop is sharp, biting, and dry leaving a longer aftertaste.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.45/5 rDev -26.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
2.45/5 rDev -26.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
"Onnenpekka."
BOTTLE: 33cl. Brown glass. Branded black & white pry-off crown cap. Generally appealing label art & design (shows a black hat on a white label with the style in white text against a yellow-orange backdrop). Best before: 26-09-15.
4.50% ABV.
Served cold into a pilsner glass at low alitude in Kuopio, Finland (where it was purchased at a Prisma supermarket). Reviewed live as a pilsner per the label. I believe it's a German style pilsner.
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: ~.5 inches wide. Off-white colour. Weak and fizzy, with a thin consistency and a poor complexion. Not creamy, robust, or full. Retention is poor - ~30 seconds. Leaves no lacing as it recedes.
BODY: Clear pilsner yellow of below average vibrance, with some honey hues. Clean-looking, with no visible yeast particles or hoppy sediment.
Appears well-carbonated. Not unique or special for a pilsner. More of a traditional bright yellow would make it more appealing.
AROMA: Pilsner malt, clean barley, cheap Munich malt, faint honey sweetness, and an odd hop profile with an herbal bend. Not sure why the hop profile isn't grassy. Were Noble hops even used? This suggests an overly sweet pilsner with a cheap malty taste. I can't say it's real inviting.
Aromatic intensity is below average.
No yeast character, booze, or off-notes are detectable.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Strangely dry, with an odd hop profile that doesn't suit a pilsner at all; it's weirdly fruity instead of grassy. The pilsner malt backbone tastes cheap and low quality, and the water hardness seems off as does the water's taste - which is oddly noticeable; is it too mineral-ly? Weird malt sweetness destroys the balance.
Shallow and simple, with none of the subtlety of a great pilsner (German or Czech). Not liking this much.
It's smooth and wet, yet strangely unrefreshing...again, I think the water chemistry is wrong somehow. Has none of the softness, fragility, or delicacy you'd expect in a good pilsner. Too medium-bodied (instead of light-bodied), with unnecessary heft and weight on the palate for the style.
Lacks a harmony of texture and taste. This mouthfeel fails to elevate the beer as a whole or to accentuate specific notes - unless bringing out the cheap malt taste counts as accentuating.
OVERALL: A subpar stab at a pilsner from Teerenpeli, Onnenpekka isn't a beer I'd recommend to the discerning drinker, nor is it a beer I'd get again. I honestly prefer some of the more generic pale lagers available at better prices in Finnish supermarkets to this; at least I expect the cheap taste. Teerenpeli needs to start sourcing good quality malts, adjusting their water chemistry, and committing to Saaz (or Noble) hops more.
D+ (2.45)
May 30, 2015BOTTLE: 33cl. Brown glass. Branded black & white pry-off crown cap. Generally appealing label art & design (shows a black hat on a white label with the style in white text against a yellow-orange backdrop). Best before: 26-09-15.
4.50% ABV.
Served cold into a pilsner glass at low alitude in Kuopio, Finland (where it was purchased at a Prisma supermarket). Reviewed live as a pilsner per the label. I believe it's a German style pilsner.
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: ~.5 inches wide. Off-white colour. Weak and fizzy, with a thin consistency and a poor complexion. Not creamy, robust, or full. Retention is poor - ~30 seconds. Leaves no lacing as it recedes.
BODY: Clear pilsner yellow of below average vibrance, with some honey hues. Clean-looking, with no visible yeast particles or hoppy sediment.
Appears well-carbonated. Not unique or special for a pilsner. More of a traditional bright yellow would make it more appealing.
AROMA: Pilsner malt, clean barley, cheap Munich malt, faint honey sweetness, and an odd hop profile with an herbal bend. Not sure why the hop profile isn't grassy. Were Noble hops even used? This suggests an overly sweet pilsner with a cheap malty taste. I can't say it's real inviting.
Aromatic intensity is below average.
No yeast character, booze, or off-notes are detectable.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Strangely dry, with an odd hop profile that doesn't suit a pilsner at all; it's weirdly fruity instead of grassy. The pilsner malt backbone tastes cheap and low quality, and the water hardness seems off as does the water's taste - which is oddly noticeable; is it too mineral-ly? Weird malt sweetness destroys the balance.
Shallow and simple, with none of the subtlety of a great pilsner (German or Czech). Not liking this much.
It's smooth and wet, yet strangely unrefreshing...again, I think the water chemistry is wrong somehow. Has none of the softness, fragility, or delicacy you'd expect in a good pilsner. Too medium-bodied (instead of light-bodied), with unnecessary heft and weight on the palate for the style.
Lacks a harmony of texture and taste. This mouthfeel fails to elevate the beer as a whole or to accentuate specific notes - unless bringing out the cheap malt taste counts as accentuating.
OVERALL: A subpar stab at a pilsner from Teerenpeli, Onnenpekka isn't a beer I'd recommend to the discerning drinker, nor is it a beer I'd get again. I honestly prefer some of the more generic pale lagers available at better prices in Finnish supermarkets to this; at least I expect the cheap taste. Teerenpeli needs to start sourcing good quality malts, adjusting their water chemistry, and committing to Saaz (or Noble) hops more.
D+ (2.45)
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