Historical

Sahti

BJCP 27

The Finnish farmhouse beer: unboiled, filtered through juniper branches, flavoured with juniper as much as hops, and fermented with baking yeast for a huge banana character.

Vital statistics

Each bar is drawn against the full range of all 98 styles

Original gravity

1.076 - 1.120

Final gravity

1.016 - 1.020

Bitterness

7 IBU - 15 IBU

Colour

4 SRM - 22 SRM

Alcohol

7% - 11%

Colour also 8-43 EBC

What goes wrong

Boiling it. Sahti is traditionally not boiled at all, which is where the flour-like haze and the raw grain character come from, and boiling produces a different beer entirely.

Vital statistics as published in the BJCP 2021 Style Guidelines. Not yet checked against the published guidelines: treat these ranges as a planning aid and read the source at bjcp.org before entering a competition.

The rest of the historical family

Kentucky Common

4-5.5% · 15-30 IBU

Piwo Grodziskie

2.5-3.3% · 20-35 IBU

Lichtenhainer

3.5-4.7% · 5-12 IBU

London Brown Ale

2.8-3.6% · 15-20 IBU

Pre-Prohibition Lager

4.5-6% · 25-40 IBU

Roggenbier

4.5-6% · 10-20 IBU

Plan a batch to these numbers.

Bitterness Colour Alcohol