Today some Christmas preparations before tomorrow's festivities. 🎄🎁 Sahti is an integral part of both. I have actually four different Sahtis for the Christmas time, three homebrews and one commercial. The first Sahti is a homebrew by a friend who is a recent sahti homebrewer. He has brewed several batches, this is the first edition I have a chance to taste. The color is murky, dark brown. Carbonation is virtually negligible as the style qualifications go. Just a few bubbles emerge for two seconds on the surface. The scent is malty and slightly tangy. I'm getting bags of malt, rye flour, a load of juniper twig and berry, a woody vibe and faint dark cookie. Characterful. Nice. The tastebuds receive sweet rye malt, dark barley malt, rye flour, banana and banana peel, a whisper of dark cookie and less ample juniper twig and berry than in the air. Still, the juniper is distinctly recognizable. The body is light-medium to medium. The finish gives juniper and rye, first and foremost, but also raw cacao powder and cookie right in their footsteps. The end remains for some time in the mouth. The mouthfeel is light-medium, quite soft and smooth as well as medium-strong. It's also rustic, mouthcoating and lip-glueing. This is a good example what the temperature does to the drink: I started with 3.5 because of the marginal sharpness but end up with 3.8 as the sensation rounds neatly over time.