Thing I love about this channel: polite rants, cozy sweaters, inclusivity, interesting information. Thing I hate about this channel: not found

Side note: I don't think too many Finns at that era would've poured grain in the bucket and prayed Odin. They would've poured the grain in the bucket and prayed either Ukko, Osmotar or Pellonpekko. Ukko is the leading deity in Finnish Pantheon. Osmotar is "The smith of ale", the ruler of beer making. Pellonpekko is god of agriculture, fertility and, of course, beer.

"...putting grain into a bucket and praying to Odin." -Me in college trying to cook.

Oh YES! I am a Finn and I LOVE sahti so much. Pronunciation is quite right, just change that throat 'h' to soft 'h' like in word 'heat' and you are spot on. Sahti is traditionally considered as festive drink, there is also everyday beer 'kalja' or 'kotikalja'. When you have a party and have some sahti, children drink non-fermented liquid, and there is usually two strengths of beer, less alcoholic for women and stronger for men.

Well dang, now I wanna do kitchen alchemy, too! I can't afford another hobby, Jimmy!

You said "sahti" a lot better than I have heard any foreigner say it. Good job 😁👍

Next you need to try to find a proper translation on the beer brewing spell. Brewing in finnish is "panna", which means to press, likely eluding to the filtration process, but also means vigorous love making. So congratulations, you have now made love to beer.

Jimmy, I SWEAR you've become one of the main ways in which I tell the passing of time. Every week, I'm in my kitchen cooking while on the Youtubz, I see your latest video pop up, and go "Oh, Monday already ?". Every. Goddamned. Week.

Me: "pouring grain in a bucket and praying to Odin" earns instant like. 🤣 Also me: I DON'T EVEN LIKE BEER; WHY DO I NOW WANT TO MAKE THIS

In regards to the yeast, it was also vice-versa, Beer yeast--beer 'barm' for baking! And I bet they used the leftover 'porridge' in a stew or fed it to the hogs. Nothing wasted.

Man bun Jimmy is back!

I'm a terrible Finn, but I think sahti is grim :D Your pronunciation is pretty good, the "h" in the middle isn't quite as strong as the "ch" in "loch" The "sahti" at 5:56 and 5:57 is spot on, actually. Also, I rolled my eyes at the idea that there would have been any length of time between the people in the Nordics discovering the growing of grain and NOT developing a way to get drunk. Our winters be long and dark (also cold, when we're lucky), so getting your drink on is a Thing.

i have tried this before...i had a finnish girlfriend years ago...her family made this stuff. they used a gruit to give bitterness...juniper with a dash of henbane...it was rocketfuel....and then some....they would all sit around by the edge of a lake...cooking over a fire....drinking this stuff....singing and dancing. this ale goes down like nectar....they used a lot of honey to boost it...double fermentation. the yeast they used was a natural high alcohol ...the smell of the wort as they cooked it....that smell will be in my nostrils till i die. they used fresh lake water....if not careful it can go to vinegar.....once settled it was pretty much guzzled....i used to love going over there....they knew how to show hospitality ....they would have something like 30 gallons of it ...they used to ask when we were coming and made sure we never went thirsty...one time...i overheard in english.....ooo...we better make more...wulf likes it!...i did laugh....they knew i was sitting next to Kaija at the time Great times...great folc and i miss them Skal Wulf

Fascinating video - thank you for that - I do love that your enthusiasm for the sahti increased with the number of sips you took (giggle)

Finally finished now and I'm just chanting "my honey just arrived" to keep myself from more bad kitchen science

Me: I don't even Luke beer, why am I even watching this? Also me: Cause it's Jimmy and his videos are always interesting and I might learn something new. Like how to make beer. Thanks Jimmy!

Sahti is the best drink during talkoot! Very easy to drink and very nutritious. Also makes everything more fun to do.

I find your "rants" oddly comforting in this uncertain world, it must be the accent. Your emphasis on the lack of germ theory and what constitutes clean water makes a lot of sense.

*Likes it before even watching because there is "Finnish" in the name* You cant find dried juniper berries where you buy spices? And yes, a box to send you stuff! then we can send you juniper berries so you can do it the right way next time :D

I sewed two button holes, wish I had some sahti while doing it

I love a polite rant, so much more eloquent.

Haha, Finns are always cracking jokes about the absurdity of the European Commission's protection list, so I think it's fine to just casually call it sahti, no matter where it's made. It's the freedom of making your own beer at home that's most important! xD

Damnit Jimmy. I need to start keeping a kitchen to do list. I also need to check if the tree in my yard is juniper...

Ales, perhaps not coincidentally, were brewed in the home, in small batches as they have to be. They were also sold from the home by women, hence ale-wives, the precursors of ale houses(which actually were houses....just houses that sold ale in their main room) and taverns. However as the use of hops became more popular this shifted. BEER, as opposed to ale, can be brewed in much larger quantities, and because it kept better, could travel, and keep far longer. This meant there was a chance to make more money out of it and that’s when more and more men started to brew, and eventually took over the craft. Funny that. Oh and the running water thru the mash I was always told was called “sparging”? Maybe that’s an English term specifically? Dunno. Oh and to borrow a phrase from “CS Brewing”.....”yeast don’t read”, so if you don’t tell your bread yeast that it’s bread yeast, you should be good ;).....yeast is yeast, and bread yeast is as good as a wild yeast, or you could buy ale yeast(it’s just a selected yeast that works best in “ale” conditions) if you wanted.And you can tell it’s good due to the fact that the grin gets bigger the lower the level goes in the glass lol.....did the Finns come for you? Lol

I can't believe I just watched 25 minutes about beer. I care nothing for the substance. Well done. :}

Aw man, im so glad i found this channel again, im a huge history buff and I was actually looking at mead recipes and stumbled across this. Love this guy, subscribed now, won’t lose the channel again

This really makes me miss the brewing parties we had in college. A group of us would gather every week and brew/bottle/drink beers and play games till the wee hours. Nostalgia.

That rant was so polite I didn't realise it was a rant until you said :D

I’ve made cherry wine with bread yeast before, It was fine!

'Dangerously drinkable', perfect!

The “off camera” remarks mumbled at the end of your video presentations are absolutely mirthful, zany, whimsical wacky fun. On this video you should have kept the camera running while you enjoyed this full bodied ale until you hit the bottom of the bottle just to see how enjoyable the video would turn. 😂

It tastes like the smell of a Christmas tree. I could see that being rather interesting. Thanks for sharing your sahti-making adventure. Glad it worked out so well. (amused that Jimmy starts talking faster the more he sipped) Take care.

...it's probably for the best that my big pots got used for dyeing, because I really don't need any more rabbitholes. Probably going to regret the bottle of Hen this prompted me to open, because I'm spinning, but meh, have spun so much the last few days that I can't feel my fingers anyway so I don't suppose it'll make much difference. :D

The smile got wider and wider at the end...yeah...we were all at that place XD

Your talking about the boiled beer just reminded me about wine seasons, which I really only vaguely know about.... How dare tangents taken from your videos continue giving me things to research

This was fascinating, thanks!

"Mmm! Them is vitamins!" LOL AWESOME!!

I really liked how your enthusiasm grew the more you drank,glad you didn't fall off your chair

The friend who taught us to brew was of Swedish heritage & made birch beer every spring :) Also, I have baked bread using the leftover yeast (troob) from a batch of beer, so it makes perfect sense to me to brew using baking yeast. Funnily enough, my son & I were discussing historical beer/mead brewing at lunch today. We decided that all honey is just mead waiting to happen... 😁

My beer making son will be having his 40th in May. I'll be brewing this medieval raw ale for him , compliments of this channel. Thanks, Jimmy.

@TheWelshViking Ahhhhhh! Thanks to you I am now completely obsessed with brewing Sahti! I bought an online book, I ordered juniper from across the country, I have my malts ready and I’m toasting rye in my oven! I’ll let you know how it turns out if you’re interested. Wish me luck! Cheers!

'I don't want to get sick' PC gone mad

Another fascinating chapter in the history of humans making booze! It's so interesting how many cultures made it, and how they did it.

Suomi mainittu! Btw my grandpa makes sahti every year for yule. It's great! My recommendation is that the less you move sahti around the better it tastes. And you should give the yeast more time to settle because otherwise you can feel that in your stomach 😂

Could you make a video about the Viking god of beer? And if anybody knows what ceremonies might have been held in his honor. Thank you

We finns really like our rye and rye products. Just minor correction, we started growing rye allready in about year 500 bce so waaaay BEFORE viking times LOL.

Science-y bit: Brewers yeast and bread yeast are different strains of the same species of yeast.

As a matter of fact, bread used to be made from sourdough starter until the 17th century, when bakers started to add brewing yeast to their leaven. In the mid-19th century, bread made from yeast as the sole leavening agent were introduced to western Europe via Vienna, after its development in Poland. The two strains of yeast have since been selected for different characteristics, but both belong to the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Very interesting! Everything including you being sanitized sounds appropriate for this year. Nice yeast only! Glad your neighbors didn't run off with your hallway beer. Putting stuff in a pot and praying to Odin sounds a lot like my wine making. I always love your content. Cheers!

"Drink this stuff fast"... words to live by!

Always learning something new every week! Love your videos!!

That was a fun watch.🎄🍺Christmas Ale!

I like the way you say that it is refreshing. At that ABV you'll end up as refreshed as a newt. I prefer my beer to have some nice hops but I do get it from a farm brewery and it has a Viking sort of name despite the American hops. :) shop.fyneales.com/jarl-mini-cask.html I'll happily watch a series of you showing the development of brewing.

WEll, that was fun/ Just the pick me up i needed today

This was so fun!

Great video very interesting, and I love how pleased with yourself and your beer making

Hey this is off topic, but I would love to hear your take on some of the Viking style music out there. Specifically Wardruna. I've been using them for lullabies and let me tell you those are some good dreams.

Absolutely fascinating and very exciting! I will definitely be making this! My mouth is watering!

I love your rants just as they are. Never stop being nice!

Educative - and enjoyable! Well done fella. The background music also sounded a little eerie and mysterious! 🍻👏👍😀

My eldest daughter spent a couple of years calling me Captain Ranty. It's a skill 😉 I've passed this video on to Finnish friends for them to savour. (The 'h' in Sahti is more like the beginning of "Hello" or "Hi")

Wish I could send you some juniper and berries. Have a huge tree (not a bush) here. Meanwhile, maybe we will try some of your ale. Cheers!

This was a fun watch, thank you! I've only ever had one experience with sahti: my friend made a batch that went horribly wrong. BUT I'm glad you had more success with it!

Thanks for the information and love the rants. Love the history you add to your videos and the added pictures of the wood barrel of juniper branches. Even though you used spruce I am sure it was great 3 day booze. 🍺 Thanks for all the hard work you do to present these videos.

I wonder how they managed to be so precise on the temp, back in the day, with no thermometer or stove top. Their fingers must have been very sensitive to heat differences back in the day and very good at monitoring their fires. Impressed!!!!!

Love the channel , thanks to the algorithms It came up on my home page. All very informative and very watchable. I really should invest in some beer making equipment!

Really enjoyed this vid,love your content

This is fantastic. I make mead (9 months old or older) and I can’t wait until I have a chance to make this. 😂😍❤️

Very cool!

beer without hops with low alcoohol is the best thing i discovered... its extremely energizing

Continue with the polite rants. They are really enjoyable, educated and sometimes sassy. I am from Finland but have no idea what Sahti is. That could either be because I speak Swedish (Finland is a biligual country) and we call it something else is Swedish. Or because I do not drink alcohol and have no idea about any of this stuff. (I do not even know the difference between ale and beer. In my mind there is just strong or less strong alcohol) Probably the latter. And the rye, we love rye here. There is a story of when people from here move to Sweden to work, one of the things they bought when coming back home or visting was rye bread, because Swedes do not have proper rye bread in the eyes of someone who has been brought up here. Using juniper in different ways (like when smoking fish) for taste is also quite common here, so it makes lot of sense for me that they used that... aand because it grows everywhere around here.

Quite interesting! I haven't done any home brewing in about a decade, and it never went that well, but now I'm tempted to try it again.

Always a great time with Jimmy, even if I don't drink alcohol.

Greetings for Finland! Sahti is a great drink.

I have to try this, it looks so good - and easy. I prefer the darker beers and ales, they have a better flavor. Guinness Dark is definitely a good modern choice. :D I love that you used baker's yeast. And, speaking of Finland, I would love to see you do a video about the Rus Vikings and how they differ from the Norwegian/Swedish/Danish Vikings. I think it would be a very interesting subject. Is such a video a possibility for you? Thank you for all of the time and effort you put into your videos. They are a ray of sunlight in our currently cloudy world. Have a great week.

Awesome! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻🍻

Loved how you pronounced Hefeweizen...and the video, even I do not drink alcohol. But I might try to do this for friends...

Searching web for old world beer and ale how tops and where they came from. Found this dude. Got caught up in video. Now a subscriber. Very cool...

Such a fun way to live out history. My mom makes wine, so I really enjoyed this. Will you try this again if you find some juniper?

Noticeable change in demeanor following 22:46 It's quite full bodied. OH wow. It's really full bodied oh my goodness.😋😋

Cool! I didn't know brewing ale was that easy! My Norse persona would much rather drink Mead, but I've yet to try making that either. :)

I would love to invite you for a Viking beer drinking beside a fire!

That's so cool....I really wanna get into brewing sometime (once I have my own space, I will!) and I'd be so curious to try this out. I'm not normally one for ale or beer, but I'd be so curious if I'd like this style if there's not much of a head or fizziness to it...

I don’t even like beer/ale and this video was fascinating!

On bespoke they have cheap little barrels for drinks that are cute and pretty cool looking honestly

Surprisingly good pronounciation!

TIL: the meaning of half the title of a Turisas song 😂 I've only been wondering for the last decade

Oh my goodness, the Welsh bit sounded like "*something something* tits off" I. am. dying. xD Heipparallaa (very unmanly form of hello) from Finland!

I don't even like beer, but I do enjoy the nice cosy content. Also I'm fascinated by the welsh language :)

The Joy is real :D

Thank you for pointing out what the note was for - I was going out of my mind trying to figure out what was up. On the beer-ale - I wonder if the Vikings drank it at 6.5% - is that a lot? I'm not much of a beer drinker - so I'm not sure. Winters would have been much more merry for the fellows at least if everyone was drunk on their Sahti.

Time to get some sahti! If it's anything close to "gotlandsdricke", I want more of it in my life. Gotlandsdricke is the best there is.

I loved this video and I can’t wait to make some sahti. In the video you said you used 10 grams of yeast for your brew of 1 gallon but the recipe on brewing nordic says to use 10 grams for 20 liters. Do you recommend still going with 10g yeast even for 1 gallon of sahti?

Loved this! I really want to faff about with making the heather ale from the legend about the father and son from [wherever] protecting their secret recipe from [choose your raiding king]. It's folklore, but I'm curious if it's really possible to brew something (with techniques from, at least, the time and place where we start to hear the story being told) that I'd be willing to get into a mild scuffle over. . . . P.S. I cannot work out how to DM so I will use subtle code instead: There may or may not be a couple of juniper trees in the place that rhymes with "Braigmillar Bastle Bark". Look for the area of pine and birch. (And anyone going: definitely double-check the ID in case I'm wrong, and also DEFINITELY check your ID so nobody mixes it up with all the yew over there.)

Nice. Last time I brewed it was not great. Maybe one day.

Lautering (?) sounds like a pour-over coffee technique. I may have to try this... as soon as I can talk my partner into letting me prune his juniper for it.

I haven’t liked the taste of any beer I’ve ever tried but I still really want to make this! I see I’m far from the only one so answer truthfully, did you put a spell on us Jimmy??

This is very interesting. I've only made beer once in a very modern way with a beer kit. I might have to try this. I can't use rye because I'm allergic to rye beer. Just beer though, I can eat rye bread no problem. It's a mystery to me why when it's made into beer it gives me hives.

You don't have the exact measures you used handy perchance? I just want to make sure I don't miss calculate the ingredients.

I wonder if dried juniper berries added to the mash would have provided the flavor profile of the original recipe?