Finnish Beer...

...all tastes the same. After working in a Belgian restaurant for a few summers and getting to know all the wonderful Belgian beers (Hoegaarden, Leffe, Chimay, etc.), I can never go back to Finnish beer. However, there is one event that specifically calls for cold, bland Finnish beer: the sauna. Beer enjoyed before/during/after sauna cannot be rich in flavour or semi-cold: it has to be cold and fizzy to be truly refreshing. Nothing beats grilled sausage and meat and a cold beer. And during summer time, the best way to keep beer cold is (of course) throwing the case into the lake. Like here, at our summer cabin in central Finland.