Beer review: Teerenpeli Laiskajaakko (4.5% Finland: Panimoravintola Teerenpeli)

The Teerenpeli Laiskajaakko is a lager, more specifically a dark lager. It's brewed by Panimoravintola Teerenpeli, a Finnish brewery restaurant group. The brewery was founded in 1995 and is located in Lahti. Teerenpeli is one of the first micro-breweries in Finland and has received several awards for its products. Let's see what the Lazy Joe (=laiskajaakko) is all about.

Taste: The Teerenpeli Laiskajaakko is a medium-strength beer with an excellent roasted, faintly sweet malt aroma. The beer offers a malty aroma with roasted, dark bread flavors and ends with slight bitterness.

Overall the Teerenpeli Laiskajaakko is not the most diverse of beers. Then again, I don't think that dark lagers are really supposed to be diverse. In my opinion, they are best when they're easy to drink and feature a nice, simple roasted malty aroma. The Teerenpeli Laiskajaakko does exactly what I expect of a dark lager and since it's supermarket strength (4.5%), it's, without a doubt, one of the best dark lagers widely available in Finland.

5/5

Beer review: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (5.6% United States: Sierra Nevada Brewing Company)

The Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is an ale, more specifically an American Pale Ale. It's brewed by the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, the seventh-largest brewery in the United States. The Sierra Nevada Brewing Company was founded in 1980 and produces around 100 000 000 litres of beer annually. Thus, it's most definitely not the smallest of breweries but it's a craft brewery nevertheless. Furthermore, the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is the best selling pale ale in the United States, so it has to have something extraordinary in it. Let's see what that is!

Taste: The Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is a medium-strength beer with a well-balanced slightly sweet taste. It's relatively easy to drink, yet it offers an interesting set of aromas: a sweet, even caramel, maltiness combined with a fruity hoppiness of citrus, orange and even pineapple.

Overall, the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is an excellent beer. It's refreshing and it offers a perfect balance of sweet malt and hoppiness. It's definitely one of the best widely available APAs I've come across and deserves its fame. In my books the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is the beer that sets the standard for other APAs.

95 Legendary