Saku Originaal (- 2015)
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.
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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302 reviews
Saku, Harjumaa, Estonia
Community reviews
Rocking the Estonian ticks. Pours a clear yellow color with a medium white head. A sweet sort of sticky dirty nose. Fizzy, somewhat sweet malts, maybe a hint of pils malt, not much here. Watery, minerals, metallic. Not great.
0,5l on TAP in Tallinn. Gelbes Bier mit kleiner Schaumkrone. Riecht leicht malzig, schmeckt wie ein typisches Lager.
Bottle 50cl, a clear yellow beer with medium head. Nose is on grassy hops and light grain. Aroma is on light cereals, wet paper, slightly corny, quite poor and thin.
The beer has a pilsener appearance. The color is golden yellow and the beer is very clear. The beer has a nice glow. It is very sunny and summery. There is a decent layer of rough white foam on top of the beer. The foam collapses quickly, and leaves a thin drape on top of the beer. The beer has a little bready smell, but it isn’t that bad. There is also some malt and some hops. There is also a nice sweet aroma. The taste is just simpel yet good beer. Bread, hop, barley, not very special, but good. The beer is a nice medicine against the thirst.
Clear light yellow with s small white head. Pale malt aroma with a bit of alcohol. Pale malts and a hint of yeast. Light, watery palate.
A tasteful beer, light color, not much CO2 but always working, bought in a 50cl can.
Appearance: golden liquid with white head. Aroma: bread, hay, dough. Taste: medium bitterness, lightly sour. Palate: light body, thin feel, average carbonation, long bitter finish,
Pale golden, weak head, malty sweet aroma, taste malty sweet, watery, no bitterness.
Light yellow and slightly hazy, little bit of a foamy head. Fruity nose. First sip is sweet and fruity. Has apple juice and biscuit aromas. Medium body. Starts sweet and becomes more tart later on.
26.01.13: Bottle 0. 5 l, Saku, Estonia.
Jasnozłote piwo z grubą, puszystą pianą. W smaku lekko wodnisty, typowy, koncernowy lager. Goryczka jest ale słaba, orzeźwia, da się wypić, szczególnie w lato.
Pale golden blonde pour with a thin head and light lacing ... Aroma of bread and spent malts ... Taste is crisp and of bready malts .... Simple and malty .... Sweet stuff went good with pizza
Pours a clear pale yellow with a medium white head that dissipates quickly. Aroma has mild skunky grass and straw...very mild! Flavor is very minimal but skunky and grassy. Mouthfeel is light and lively with a dry skunky/straw finish. Very boring and bland.
Jul ’14. A 0.5 l can. It poured pale yellow body with small head. Weak hay and some malt in aroma. Flavor was extremely weak and watery as well, showed some malty notes and eggy off-notes. Thin, needless to say, but pleasantly malty and even lightly herbal finish saved it completely. To conclude - this is a watery, almost bland everyday macro pale lager.
Average lager, not anything special, medium body, average carbonation, good for sauna.
Can@ScanShop. Bière blonde de type pils: robe paillée avec mini col. Le nez est métalique, senteurs de grain fluet, petite acidité, pas d’amertume. La bouche est assez douce mais sans rondeur, très aqueuse avec des arômes vaguement mielleux, en tout cas fort soyeux, le tout très fluet et sec. La fin est vaguement acerbe très courte. Pas trop mal.
Bottle. Strong barley malt and light lemon aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Lightly sour lemon and barley malt flavor. Standard - not horrible.
Golden colour, creamy foam, medium carbonated. Light aroma with malt and hops notes.
Bottle:
Clear, bubbly gold with a small, off-white head.
Corn, grain malt aroma.
Taste is pretty much the same...
Semi-stale grain malt, grass.
Probably not bad if fresh...
But I don’t foresee a trip to Estonia any time soon to see for myself.
Rated on 7-20-2012 (Bottle) This beer forms a medium sized very fizzy white head that mostly diminishes, yellow as the sun transparent body, very fizzy, fast rising carbonation, and no lacing. The aroma is malt, corn and sweet. Ditto for the flavor. The mouthfeel is semi-lively and this beer is light-medium bodied. This beer’s flavor did not overwhelm me at all as evidence by the numbers I gave it. It lacks character, aroma and flavor. This beer I do not recommend trying.
Goldgelbes Bier mit ordentlich Schaum. Geruch leicht malzig, grasig. Geschmack leicht hopfig bitter, malzig, getreidig.
Pours golden yellow with a white head. Sweet malts on the nose, some pilsner malts aroma. Not memorable.
Pours a clear golden color, topped with average white head.
Malty aroma is mild but easy to pick up. Some grains also here.
The taste is sweet at first, folloed by very moderate bitterness.
Drinkable, but average.
Thanks Natko! Clear golden yellow body with a medium sized lasting white head. Malty, slightly grassy taste, meh. Empty malty, slightly eggy, slighty sourish, slightly vegetabley (perfumey) taste with some light malt bitterness. All of this is damn subdued making it drinkable if you really wish to punish yourself for some reason. Meh.
33cl can thanks to ruigo. Color is clear gold. Head is white. Body is medium. Taste is light sweet. Aroma is pharmacy, vegetables and light cereal.
Shared a 33cl can from ScanShop (Luxembourg). Pours a clear light straw colour with a thin white head. Aroma is malty and grassy hops. Average carbonation and light watery body. Taste is light, but slightly more bitter than sweet. Resembles more a pilsener. Overall, a common refreshing lager.
Yellow, white foam that dosnt last. Mild aroma of dry paper. Mild taste of malt with strong bitter dry aftertaste.
Can 0.5l from local Lidl, Espoo. Originally rated 25082011. Colour is clear golden with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Grain and malts.
Suprisingly, a grassy hop aroma like that of a pilsner.
Flavor doesn’t follow through. Mildly malty, even more mildly hoppy.
But OK balance.
Nice foamy head, great clarity. Palate and flavor a little thin for this style of pils although the hop levels were fine. Good but not spectacular.
Can 50 cl from K-Market hervanta. Grains, cardboard aroma. Sweet, grainy flavour