Comment on Snuck a taste of the new sahti x stout
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 6 days ago
Inquiring minds, they just gotta know:
Sahti is a Finnish type of farmhouse ale made from malted and unmalted grains including barley and rye. Traditionally the ale is flavored with juniper in addition to, or instead of, hops; the mash is filtered through juniper twigs into a trough-shaped tun, called a kuurna in Finnish. Sahti is top-fermented and many have a banana flavor due to isoamyl acetate from the use of baking yeast, ...
Yes, that’s the stuff :D Making sahti is very much a regional thing, it’s not in the tradition everywhere in the country. However, my area is very big on sahti tradition, we have 25 kg bags of malt in many supermarkets to serve the need.
Juniper is supposed to help the sahti keep for longer, as it’s not usually boiled at all. I do a full boil though.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 days ago
Very interesting. And I have a ready source of juniper. Thanks for sharing!!