Crosby's Kitchen & CocktailFinnish Sahti - Farmhouse Ale

The flavor profile is interesting and very complex due to the unique ingredients that go into it. Primarily among these is the juniper, which lends a pinous, “Christmas-y” flavor to the ale, which is somewhat reminiscent of hops, and helps balance out any residual sweetness from the malts. A juniper-infused ale with no hops that is not boiled. The second primary flavor contributor to sahti is the yeast. It is brewed simply with Finnish baking yeast. It’s very unique, and certainly is a powerful fermenter, shredding through sugars like it’s nothing. The lauder tun is a hollowed white birch log called a “kuurna”, the mash is ladled over the juniper branches and hay, then drained into a creamer container, just like they did in the dark-ages before steam and metal were used in the brewing process.