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We drove along dirt roads through seemingly empty forest for halfan hour, the dust curling lazily behind us. Eventually we turned ontoa road with a sign saying Viherojantie, "Viheroja road." That meant wewere getting close, because we were going to brew with Olavi Viheroja,who lives on the farm with the same name, and the road was named afterthe farm. (This was part of the Finnish sahtiexpedition of 2018.)... Read | 2021-05-22 13:26 | 4 comment(s) There's a lot of excitement over kveik at the moment, but kveik isonly one kind of farmhouse yeast. The other kinds have so far beenvery little known, and so I thought it was time to take a little lookat the bigger picture.... Read | 2021-02-06 20:33 | 14 comment(s) One of the most notable stands at the sahtichampionship belonged to the so-called Sahti Academy(Sahtiopisto), anassociation of sahti brewers in the small town of Isojoki, who havejoined forces to promote their sahti brewing heritage. The day afterthe championship we paid them a visit.... Read | 2021-01-11 19:53 | 4 comment(s) People often lament that we need to pay more attention to the truemeaning of Christmas, but I don't think they mean the same thing as mewhen they say that. In English there are two words for Christmas. Thefirst is the obvious one, meaning "the mass of Christ", thecelebration of the birth of Christ. The second word, yule, derivesfrom the original pagan feast which the church later co-opted, turningit into Christmas. Since it's the original one, of course that is thereal feast.... Read | 2020-12-15 19:50 | 11 comment(s) A large, empty sports field, with some cars parked round the edge.That really was what we were seeking in Karvia, a village way out inthe Finnish countryside. The nearest town of any size was Pori, about80km to the southeast. The field was the site of the annual Finnishnational championship in sahti brewing. We had decided to stop by,because it seemed like a great opportunity to try a number ofdifferent sahtis. (This was part of the Finnishsahti expedition of 2018.)... Read | 2020-09-27 10:21 | 2 comment(s) As farmhouse ale styles go sahti is quite well documented in print,but if you really want to understand a kind of beer there is no otherway than to go there. You need to taste the beer, see it brewed, talkto the brewers, see the places, and get a sense for the wholecommunity of brewers and drinkers. And since I'd never done that forsahti I knew that some day I would have to make a major trip toFinland. In 2017 Martin Thibault and I decided the time had come, and startedpreparing for a trip to Finland.... Read | 2020-09-20 10:56 | 2 comment(s) You know how the Inuit supposedly have dozens of specialized wordsfor different kinds of snow? It comes as no surprise to people whoknow the Finns that they have lots of specialized words for differentkinds of drinking and alcohol. Here is a little dictionary of thesedrinking terms, collected on an expedition through the Finnishcountryside in the summer of 2018, hunting for Finnish traditionalfarmhouse ale, sahti.... Read | 2020-08-16 12:22 | 2 comment(s) I had been googling "land l" to see if it really was the name forDanish farmhouse ale, when I stumbledon a recipefor it. The recipe came from Olga Hansen at the farm N ddebjergg rd onM n. "Huh", I thought. "That's very specific. Let's try tracing her."I tried googling various combinations and suddenly found that they'dbrewed farmhouse ale onthe same farm in 2017. So of course I called them, and asked if Icould come visit. (This was in July 2018.)... Read | 2020-08-09 14:38 | 11 comment(s) The most common question I get in interviews is "what do youconsider to be a farmhouse ale?" and since the answer is a littleinvolved I decided to write it up more fully. There is a fairlyclear-cut definition, but it takes a little explaining.... Read | 2020-07-26 14:52 | 15 comment(s) The title makes it sound like I've lost my mind, because of coursebread yeast exists. You've all seen it sitting on supermarket shelves.But I've started to wonder whether what's sold as bread yeast reallyis a separate kind of yeast, or whether they're just brewer's yeaststhat have changed profession.... Read | 2020-05-04 16:15 | 22 comment(s)

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