Draught@skolan. I couldn’t resist this brew when I saw that rsmeds and oh6gdx had tried it out. I took a pitstop on my way to the Aland islands myself. Hazy brown in colour. Minor brown head, lacings. The aroma wow, a banana like aroma with hops. Very filling and appealing. The flavour is refreshing hops, wheat and something that reminds me of banana. But it’s quite watery though. There is a wheaty and refreshing aftertaste.

Draught. Thanks to rsmeds for giving me a clue on this beer before my short 1 day trip to Rauma (a bit north of Turku) during Xmas day. So, rsmeds did warn me on wonderful aroma but quite crappy and empty flavour. I do have to agree on that one. Indeed it pours up enormously cloudy, and a weird brownish colourm the head was a very huge one for me though, slightly off-white (they even had to let the glass stand a while due to the foamy head). Aroma is yeasty, bananish, wheaty and also has some other berries and spices in it. Kind of Christmas meeting dunkelweizen. The flavour is wheat, yeast and dark fruit with weak banana. It somehow feels empty and watery. The typical "kouluish" nyance is also to be found in this one, though more hidden than in some others. Apparently this is a new "winterseasonal", which they decided to test out now, as their Christmas seasonal got sold out before their Portteri was ready. There may be another batch of this along with or after portteri again.

Draught from one hour old keg of the first batch of this brew since 2001. (Whoo!) Super cloudy -- opaque, frankly -- brown color (exceptional cloudiness probably due to keg freshness). Small, off-white head. Vaguely resembles a dark sahti... Spicy sweet and fruity aroma of yeast, wheat, and the typical banana. Hint of of nutmeg and cinnamon. The sweet, musty aroma is, surprisiginly -- and I believe most would agree, disappointingly -- followed by a fairly dry, wheaty flavor with a hint of the typical hefe-banana detectable. The aftertaste is even dryer, with a slight hoppiness to boot. Medium body, mild carbonation, dry palate, and vaguely creamy mouthfeel. So, the resurrection of a hefedunkel from my local microbrew, promises a whole great lot in appearance and aroma, but sadly fails to deliver in way of flavor. A decent but annoyingly uneven beer that obviously needs some fine-tuning in the flavor department. Nevertheless an enjoyable enough winter-wheat as it is.