Why be happy with one Sahti when you can have two? Yes, TWO! Our beloved summer cottage neighbors have also another Sahti to try out: this one is a local brew, from the local sahtimaster whose brews I have enjoyed so many times before. The problem with this Sahti is that it's a bit aged. It was brewed for Christmas, and it's now early February. Age doesn't usually do good to Sahti. Sahti is a living product that evolves all the time. Sometimes a Sahti is at its best at two weeks, more often at three to four weeks. Our own homebrewed Sahtis have sometimes been very good as late as at six to eight weeks but sometimes six weeks has proved to be too long, and the remaining Sahti pours to the ground. I once tasted a commercial Sahti that was six months old and it was still drinkable, if not perfect. You'll never know when you play with Sahti. Ok, this Sahti shows a cloudy, medium-brown gown. A very amber tint shines in it, too. Carbonation is still alive albeit phlegmatic, and a thin ring of grayish-beige bubbles forms on the top. The scent is weak: I can solely pick distant fermented banana. It's slightly sweet. Maltiness is absent. 🤔 I have to mention here that the drink is really cold, it's off course a good sign for preservation but may flatten the nuances to some extent. The taste gives first the same fermented banana with a faint yeasty tang. Medium-sweet malt accompanies and invites a bit of flour to the palette. Unfortunately, I also encounter recognizable alcohol on the tongue. The palate is somewhat tangy, especially when the Sahti is ice cold but it levels off a bit together with the rising temperature. The body is medium-full. The finish offers too distinct alcohol that renders the package sharp. Not really appealing to my taste. Banana is there but not particularly nice. Malt seems to disappear somewhere. The end dies fast. The mouthfeel is sharp, slightly tangy and a tad alcoholic. It's medium-full but missed many good characteristics of Sahti like softness, smoothness and stickiness. Well well... this Sahti starts unwelcoming but improves with increasing temperature. Still, it never reaches a point of true enjoyability. This is obviously too old at this point. I give first 2.5 for the edgy experience but I raise the final verdict to 3.3 as it improves reasonably.