Sandels is a Finnish beer brand manufactured by the

Olvi Olvi plc (, ) is a Finland, Finnish brewery and soft drinks company founded in 1878 by the brewer Williams Gideon Åberg and his wife Onni. It currently holds 18.7% of Finland's market share in beverages, making it the third-largest producer of b ...

brewery since 1973. It is named after the Swedish

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and war hero of the

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Johan August Sandels Count Johan August Sandels (31 August 1764 – 22 January 1831) was a Swedish soldier and politician, being appointed Governor-general of Norway (''Riksståthållare'' in Swedish, ''Rigsstatholder'' in Dano-Norwegian) 1818 and Field Marshal ...

(1764–1831). The cans and bottles of the beer contain anecdotes and sayings from Sandels's life, many of them related to beer. The regular Sandels is a pale

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, but other versions of the beer exist as well, such as a darker beer, and a wheat beer. Sandels was named the top rated beer brand in Finland in a 2015 study. Sandels is available with three different alcohol percentages: 4.7%, 5.3% and 7.5%.

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{{reflist Beer brands of Finland Finnish brands