Mika Laitinen lives, writes, and brews in Finland, just a
stone's throw from the traditional sahti heartland, where
traditional farmhouse ale culture still thrives. His articles on
sahti have appeared in several beer magazines, including Brew Your
Ownand Zymurgyand he writes about local Nordic beer culture onhis
website Brewing Nordic (www.brewingnordic.com).Randy Mosher
is the author of Tasting Beer, Radical Brewing, Mastering Homebrew,
A Beer for All Seasons, and The Brewer's Companion. He lives in
Chicago, Illinois.
“An invaluable resource. . . . Mika Laitinen’s exhaustive research
and experimentation has resulted in a fascinating, highly readable,
and eminently
accessible guidebook for brewing like a Viking.” —Jereme
Zimmerman, author of Make Mead Like a Viking and Brew Beer
Like a Yeti
“Just when you think the canon of beer literature cannot grow any
richer, a book like Mika Laitinen’s comes along. This is a
fascinating and substantive account of a typically overlooked
corner of the brewing universe, and is sure to stand as the
definitive word on traditional farmhouse ales for quite some
time.” —Tom Acitelli, author of The Audacity of Hops
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