Time to embark on an adventure that I've been waiting for like a kid for his first visit to a candy shop: we produced five different flavored stouts as byproducts of our third sahti batch. This is the first one: raspberry licorice stout. The beer pours bright black. The carbonation is just perfect, nicely extrovert and keeps producing seeds for the fawn head that grows two fingers tall and retains on the top for significantly long; as a matter of fact almost till the end of the drink. I inhale the fragrance cautiously: oh mama! Delicious! Powerful natural raspberry mash emanates to the nostrils. The raspberries grow wild on the sides of our summer cottage yard. Couldn't be any more local, neither more organic. Soft licorice powder seasons the raspberry nicely. Vanilla rounds the package further. Beautiful! I take a deep sip. Nnnnnice! Licorice is soft and relatively sweet. It sits on the driving seat and determines the direction. It's even somewhat dominant but the raspberry mash manages to keep its head afloat. I would have appreciated still a bit heftier raspberry and less massive licorice but I'm still glad about the palette. Vanilla is modest but detectable. It's probably more like a softener there than a nuance in itself. The body is light-medium, perhaps a whisper more. It could be more robust, of course, but this is fairly successful though. Raspberry and sweet licorice feature first in equal proportions in the finish but the licorice starts to run the show after a while. Yet, intriguingly balanced. The aftertaste drops candies for the tastebuds for a long time. The mouthfeel is nicely soft, truly smooth, balanced and moderately lip-glueing. It's also reasonably rich in berries, desserty and candy-like. Astonishingly tasty for our third beer ever.