The final competition has three rounds. Each group tastes the same eight or so sahti samples. After first round we have 12 samples left, that is the three best samples from every round will go to the next round. In the second round the judges are divided into two goups, each will judge six samples and again three samples from each group will go to the final. The first Haarikanhaltija in the year 1994 was a finnish TV-person and a chef Jaakko Kolmonen .
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