Small Beer time! It means my own homebrew. Made of the second runnings of our Christmas Sahti, always flavored with a Finnish natural herb, berry or plant. I have produced 27 varieties so far and two unflavored ones (I think..., the search function of this app sucks at the moment). Three new editions are awaiting tasting. This is the first one of those three. The herb is this time large-flowered hemp-nettle. Or by its scientific name Galeopsis speciosa. Common on the roadside, fields and meadows. No idea what it tastes like, all I remember from the summer when I picked a small bag of this is that the taste didn't thrill me. But maybe it's a flashback from the summer? The beer looks lucid copper. Like malty. The carbonation is still relatively underdeveloped but, over time, it will gain strength. I apply fairly modest priming sugar nowadays although it prolongs the time needed for carbonation to develop properly. However, if a beer is stored for more than a year – yes, I have a load of homebrews that are one or two years old – the carbonation becomes excessive and the content of the bottle erupts like a volcano when opened. Now, a marginal lacing only. What do I get in the scent? Well, a floral slam. Unsurprisingly. Like a summer morning in a meadow. Not unpleasant but not recognizable either. Malt and biscuit whirl into the floral cocktail. And the taste profile then? Malt, faintly worty as if still modestly unfinished, bread, black tea and grass. That's the package at the moment. A floral touch but much less pronounced than what the fragrance suggests, unidentifiable to me though. The body is light or light minus. Not thin though, which is more than welcome at 2.8 %. The finish doesn't give any new elements, short-lived though. The sensation left on the tongue is light minus, floral, herbal, still quite flat but it will develop. Slightly dry and moderately drying. Quite pleasant for a herbed beer whose primary flavoring I didn't even know.