Finland’s best beer 2025 is Salmiac Licorice Blackcurrant Sour.
In particular, the Salmiac Licorice Blackcurrant Sour, a small brewery in Helsinki, is especially known as Finland’s best beer in 2025.
– Immediately the fragrance combines berry, strawberry and liquorice layers indicate the complex and unique sour beer in the glass. After the first gossip, the deeper layers of the aroma are registered in the taste. Despite its diversity, beer is balanced. The long -term aftertaste has berries and salty caramel. Interesting and guaranteed high quality beer, describing the winning beer.
This year, more than 440 different beers were involved in the competition.
There were 15 competitions and are based on international Beer Judge Certification Program.
– Race series will be renewed every year to meet the needs of breweries and consumers, says the competition director Anikó Lehtinen In the competition bulletin.
There was a jury of beer professionals, beer enthusiasts and beer consumers in the competition. A beer judge is sought and each of them is trained before the evaluation.
Beer is evaluated as blind tasting. The judges evaluate their appearance, fragrance, taste and mouthfeel and overview.
This year, for the first time, the best Sahti was also awarded.
The Chairman of the Beer Association was the competition director Anikó Lehtinenas the main judge an experienced beer journalist and judge Jussi Rokka and as a race master with a long -time beer professional Veera Savolainen.
The Chair of the European Beer Consumers Union was chaired by the final jury André Brunnsberg.
The Best Beer competition in Finland is organized by the Brewery and Soft Drinking Association and the Small Brewery Association. The practical arrangements of the competition are the responsibility of the Federation of Beer.
The top 15 beers of the competition. Finland’s Best Beer Competition
Competition Winners:
Finland’s best beer 2025
Salmiac Licorice Blackcurrant Sour, Coolhead Brew
1. Non -alcoholic or low -alcoholic beer
Rooster pils non -alcoholic, Laitilan Wirvoitusjovanto Factory
– Clean bils, hopping okay, works well as a sauna drink.
2. Lightly hopped light lager
Pumped barbar, brewery company Tuju
– Stylish, clean, personalized heat. Good product in cramped frames. “Hellles’ good”.
3. Pils or other heavily hopped lager
Katuma Pils, Temperance Brewing
– Great look. The scent is greeted by the smell of the footwear. The beer is crispy, as the German -style bilge is supposed to be. Durable bitter aftertaste.
4. Other light lager
Only only Helles Lager, Kanavan Brewery Oy
– Beautiful, bright, soft, malt: excellent Festbier.
5. Dark or colored lager
Kippari Dark Lager, Kanavan Brewery Oy
– Gentle toasty, malt and comfortably crunchy. Properly represents dark Czech style.
6. Light or medium -tumed ale
Bellywasher, Iso-Kalla Brewery
– Excellent drinking. Firmly malt, successful caramel. The sticky mouth feel of the Scottele does not go over.
7. APA or session IPA
Sparking: Micro NeiPa, Brewery lust
– Really balanced and easy to drink, full -bodied with mild alcohol. Clean bitter, pleasantly tropical taste.
8. The cloudy IPA
Double Banger: Motueka Talus, Mallaspäpät
– Personal cloudy IPA, Strong Semi -like aroma. Balanced stylish, lots of citrus -like nuances.
9. IPA
254 California Redwood, Fat Lizard Brewing Company
– Havuinen, nice caramel, moderate bitter. High quality and balanced Red IPA.
10. Wheat beers
Rooster wheat, Laitilan Wirvoitusjömöhdas
-A good representative of Weissbier style, good aroma profile, balanced entity. Creamy mouth feel, clean taste profile, excellent drinking.
11. Stout or porter
Origin, Mallaspät
– Thick as a liquid mummy, wonderfully espresso -like foam. Round roasted in every way. A heavenly pair for ice cream-cake combination.
12. Sour beers, unflavoured or flavored
Salmiac Licorice Blackcurrant, Sour Coolhead Brew
– Fully mouth, full -bodied and balanced. An interesting entity, an attractive acidic and salty elegant combination.
13. The flavored beer
Korven Smoked Lager, Karvila Brewery
– Finnishness in the container. Gentless smoke, delicate spruce, clean beer. A sophisticated entity, I remember the forest and a campfire trip. “Essence of Perkele”.
14. The matured beer
Teerenpeli Whisky Barrel Aged Scottish Ale, Teerenpel Brewery and Distillery
– Glory for his base style, very scatottic. Clear whiskey barrel aromas. Confusingly fresh to be a barred strong beer. Combines two not so fresh beer styles into a confusing, drinking beer.
15. Other beers
Bock’s Juniper wheat, Bock’s Corner Brewery
– Successful symbiosis, Weizenbock and Sahdi. Good mouth feel. Fresh, alcohol does not push through. Nice sweetness and in a positive sense banana.
The best saffron
Pramia Sahti, Pramia
– Traditional mouth feel. Faithfully stylish sweet saffron.
The best gluten -free
254 California Redwood, Fat Lizard Brewing Company