Sorry, I didn’t mean combining Kvass and Sahti. I was referring to how Sahti is combined with the Swedish and Estonian brew (the names of which escape me). I.e. is Kalja is Finland similar to Kvass?
One of Joe’s guidelines for these changes is that he wants things to be available in the add beer menu that people would be looking for, even if they are folded together on the site. At the moment the style is Kvass but Gira would be in the add beer list and anything added under that would be defaulted to Kvass everywhere after the add beer page. I know very little about Kvass, so feel free to list other European styles that are very similar (or tell us if we’re wrong) and we can update the list.
People have been throwing around all of these words but they all mean the same in different languages. Differences can obviously exists but there is no clear-cut differences across countries to justify splitting them.