Saku Mäger

Formerly brewed at Saku Õlletehas (Baltic Beverages Holding - Carlsberg )
Style: Pale Lager
Saku, Estonia

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Bottled. Yellowish golden colour with small white head. Aroma is malts, hops and some grains. Flavour is sweet malts, mild paperyness as well as grassy and earthy hops.

Bottle, 4.8%. Clear golden colour. OK stable white head. The flavour has a faint hint of bread and hay, very subtle. Really almost tastes of nothing, but is quite clean. The mouthfeel is OK, though.

Bottled (BB 11/2004)
Mäger means badger.
Dark honey color, small white head. Light sweet nose. Light to medium bodied, light flavor. Sweet, carbonated mouthfeel. Typical Estonian low-quality beer.

500ml bottle - thanks SaintMatty!
Pale gold, brief white head. Nondescript sweet lagery aroma. Slightly fizzy and watery palate. Grassy hops, lacking a malty body. Hops a bit vegetably. Medium length artificial hoppy finish.

(Bottled) Light copper color with small head. Very mild aroma, but some chocolate-malt noticeable. While drier than most Estonian lagers, some sweet chocolate-maltiness is still present in the flavor. No hops are found here - the finish is merely carbonated. Palate is still light-bodied and quite carbonated. As a positive surprise, this lager has been blessed with some dunkel character. It’s still a bulk lager, though.

UPDATED: MAY 19, 2008 500ml Bottle-Golden in colour with a large foamy head. Malty aroma with a slight hoppy hint along with grain, straw and a faint peach hint. Clean and smooth to drink with malt, hops and a short but pleasant bitterness. Well balanced and the best Saku pilsner that I have had. That does not say too much though!

Limpid dark golden body with no head at all. Very thin malty aroma. Unidimensional malty/hoppy aroma. Watery taste with malty hints. Short bitter finish. More than boring.

I don’t know if was the thirst, but this beer was surprisingly tasty. Very pale and watery clear golden with a fine medium sized head. very light but ok

NOTE: This is not really a rating. I’m converting my old notes over to BR. This is more like "check" for my own purposes, that I have indeed drunk this beer at the time it was produced.

0,5L bottle (produced in 2L PET-bottle also). 4,8% vol. Pale golden color. Aroma is sweet floral. Taste is full, semi-sweet. Finish is little bit hoppy bitter. Don’t bad!