Meripihkan väri. Pullon pohjalta hiibat. Pehmentää ja sameuttaa.

Tummat oluet ei vaan maistu itselle. Tämä kyllä silti yllättävän hyvä...Tummaksi olueksi.

This is my local brewery's annual release of freeze-distilled beers. The previous ones were Eisbocks, this one seems to be a wheat-based brew. Like a Dunkler Eisweizenbock. (...yeah, I know... 😁) The can says Vintage 2023, it was published just a few weeks ago. The beer is veiled in turbid, dark sludgy brown. The carbonation behaves in a very correct manner. A latte-hued dense foam appears on the surface and shrinks quickly to the sides. The olfactory sphere is relatively rich: generous banana is the monarch! A long list of subordinates includes oat biscuit, milk chocolate, cacao nibs, raisin, brownie, date... Those come in varying intensities, some bigger, the others subdued, almost negligible. Could actually well be a wheat-based Sahti with a bit of chocolate malt added. Lovely!  🤎🤎 The taste profile lags a bit behind the rich multifaceted olfactory constellation. I'm picking here strong malt, fermented banana with black bruises, raw cacao powder, rye dough and a grassy hoppy touch. Raisin pops up occasionally and then goes hiding. The versatility dwindles on the tongue compared to the nose. It's also slightly sharp, I guess this would benefit from keeping for a while. The body is medium-full. Not substandard but not phenomenal either. The beer ends pretty identically to the previous experience. Not sure if anything changes. Probably marginally narrower but otherwise similar. Minus 20 in the soul, fog in the head; gained something, lost something; someone there on the shore switched the aftertaste; many different thoughts, like a carnival. The mouthfeel is medium-full, mellow, somewhat intense and marginally drying. It also portrays thick, sticky and even chewy characteristics albeit not to the maximum. An interesting slow sipper anyway.