Cider review: Nokian Panimo Omenasiideri (4.7% Finland: Nokian Panimo)

The Nokian Panimo Omenasiideri is an apple cider. It's produced by Nokian Panimo, a medium-sized Finnish brewery located in Nokia. They pride themselves in being an honest, independent brewery. The Nokian Panimo Omenasiideri can be found in supermarkets all over Finland, and currently it's one of the only widely available ciders by a medium-sized brewery.

Taste: The Nokian Panimo Omenasiideri is a light/medium-bodied cider with a natural, sweet yet sour body. It tastes like real apples and is quite juice-like. It finishes with moderate dryness.

Overall, The Nokian Panimo Omenasiideri is a really nice cider. Among the ciders available in Finnish supermarkets, it's definitely one of the best. You can really taste the natural ingredients. It's refreshing and natural, just the way a cider should be. The market-strength makes it a bit light but that's the price you have to pay for wider circulation in Finland.

75 Good

Beer review: Keisari EloWehnä (4.7% Finland: Nokian Panimo)

Keisari EloWehnä is a wheat beer, more specifically a Hefeweizen. It is brewed by Nokian Panimo, one of the middle-sized breweries of Finland. Nokian Panimo prides itself in being an honest, independent brewery. Keisari EloWehnä can be found in supermarkets all over Finland and it offers an interesting alternative to the basic lager beers.

Taste: Keisari EloWehnä is a fine wheat beer. It offers a light-bodied wheat and yeast dominant flavor, with a hint of banana fruitiness. The aftertaste of the beer is pleasantly fruity and the beer finishes with a faintly bitter wheaty flavor.

Overall, Keisari EloWehnä is among the best wheat beers available in Finnish supermarkets. It's not the most refreshing one, since the flavor is quite rich. However, the flavors that it offers are really enjoyable and therefore the Keisari EloWehnä is definitely worth trying!

70 Good

Beer review: Keisari Kellari (4.5% Finland: Nokian Panimo)

Nokian Panimo is one of the middle-sized breweries of Finland. It prides itself in being an honest, independent brewery. Keisari (Finnish for emperor) is their brand and Keisari Kellari (Finnish for cellar) is a hand-brewed lager beer, more specifically an unfiltered cellar beer. It can be found in supermarkets in Finland and definitely offers a more interesting variety of flavors than the 'basic beers' of Finland.

Taste: The unfiltered character of the beer becomes clear in its full-bodied malty flavour. It is quite thick, sweet and bready, with a hint of yeast. Reminiscent of home-brewed beer, which in this case is a good thing, since it gives character to this supermarket-available beer. Maybe a bit musty towards the end.

A good choice if you are into beers with more character and taste than the bulk products and choose to enjoy a single beer instead of gulping down a case. However, does not deliver strong aromas and in this way reminds a home-brewed beer. This might be a good or a bad thing, depending on the drinker.

65 Above average