Koff (beer)
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Sinebrychoff
Sinebrychoff Brewery is a Finnish brewery and soft drinks company. It was founded in 1819 in Helsinki, Finland by Russian colonist Nikolai Sinebrychoff , and is one of the largest breweries in Finland today. It has since become part of Carlsberg Breweries A/S....
to market a range of lager
Lager
Lager is a type of beer made from malted barley that is brewed and stored at low temperatures. There are many types of lager; pale lager is the most widely-consumed and commercially available style of beer in the world; Pilsner, Bock, Dortmunder Export and Märzen are all styles of lager...
type beers
Beer
Beer is the world's most widely consumed andprobably oldest alcoholic beverage; it is the third most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of sugars, mainly derived from malted cereal grains, most commonly malted barley and malted wheat...
. Koff, alongside Karhu
Karhu
Karhu is a Finnish beer brand brewed by the Sinebrychoff brewery in Kerava. It is a pale lager with a strong taste. The brewing of Karhu began in 1898 and in terms of market share, it has become the most popular beer in Finland in the last few years. Currently there are three beers with different...
is one of the most sold beer brands of Sinebrychoff and Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
. Sinebrychoff's beers greatest market rivals are the products of another large brewery Hartwall
Hartwall
Hartwall is a beverage company based in Helsinki, Finland. It was founded in 1836. Its soft drinks range includes Hartwall Jaffa and Hartwall Novelle water. The company also owns the license for manufacturing and selling PepsiCo's Pepsi, 7 Up and Mountain Dew brands in Finland...
, namely Lapin Kulta
Lapin Kulta
Lapin Kulta was a brewery in the Lapland town of Tornio, Finland. As of August, 2010, it is only brewed in the southern Finnish town of Lahti. It was founded in 1873 under the name Torneå Bryggeri Aktiebolag...
and Karjala
Karjala
Karjala is a Finnish lager type beer that is manufactured by the Hartwall brewery. Karjala beer was manufactured by the cooperative shop Osuusliike Itä-Karjala owned Sortavalan panimo Oy brewery from 1932 until 1944. Production was resumed in 1948....
, as well as the beer of Olvi
Olvi
Olvi is a Finnish brewery and soft drinks company founded in 1878. It currently holds 18.7% of Finland's market share in beverages, making it the largest Finnish-owned business in its sector. Its subsidiary, A. Le Coq, is the second largest beverage company in Estonia...
brewery: Olvi.
The Koff brand name is used on the shirt of Finnish SM-Liiga Ice Hockey clubs Ilves
Ilves
Ilves is a Finnish sports club nowadays mostly known for their youth work. The ice hockey team plays in the SM-liiga at the Tampereen jäähalli in Hakametsä...
, HIFK
HIFK (ice hockey)
HIFK is an ice hockey team based in Helsinki, Finland. The team plays at Helsinki Ice Hall. It was founded in 1897...
, TPS
TPS
-Math, science, and engineering:*Theorem Proving System, an automated theorem proving system for first-order and higher-order logic*Twin Prime Search, a distributed computing project that looks for large twin primes...
and Espoo Blues
Espoo Blues
The Blues are an ice hockey team in the SM-liiga. They play in Espoo, Finland at the Barona Areena.-Team history:The club was established in February 1984 as Kiekko-Espoo and played their first season in 1984-1985 in the Finnish Second Division...
as part of a marketing sponsorship deal.
In 1995, the Spårakoff
Spårakoff
Spårakoff is a HM V type tram converted into a bar in Helsinki, Finland. Known as the pub tram, the bright red vehicle does circular tours of Helsinki picking up passengers for an additional fee during summer months....
pub tram started operating in Helsinki just after the 175th anniversary of the brewery, that occurred in 1994.
Beers
- Koff I (2.5%)
- Koff III (4.5%)
- Koff IVA (5.2%)
- Koff IVB (7.5%)
- Koff Extra Brew III (4,5%)
- Koff Extra Brew IV (5,2%)
- Koff Lite III (4,4%)
Discontinued beers
- Koff Amber (Amarillo-strain hops beer which was first sold in 2001)
- Koff Draught (a beer sold in red 50cl cans starting from 2004)
- Koff Jouluolut ("Jouluolut" meaning Christmas beer, known later as Sinebrychoff Jouluolut)
- Koff Red Lager Beer (copper red lager, made using caramelized maltMaltMalt is germinated cereal grains that have been dried in a process known as "malting". The grains are made to germinate by soaking in water, and are then halted from germinating further by drying with hot air...
) - Koff Velvet (dark lager, later sold as Velvet)
- Koff Weizze (wheat beer)
- Koff Vienti AIII (export variety)
- Koff Åland Öl (blond lager for the Åland market)
- Koff Wild Indian (4.4%, made using corn syrup)