Mika Laitinen

[excerpted from author's Brewing Nordic website]
Since 1998, I have crafted hundreds of homebrew ales, many of them to test how various farmhouse methods work in practice or to explore the ways people brewed in ages past. Through a plethora of brewing successes and failures, I have gained hands-on awareness for guiding others in how to brew ancient ales.

I'm privileged to live right on the doorstep of Finland's sahti heartland, where traditional farmhouse ale culture remains strong. My favorite way of passing the time is by chatting, brewing, and drinking with farmhouse brewers, all the while collecting stories, recipes, and photos from a beer culture that has disappeared from most parts of Europe.