Viking Brewing Abby Normal

Brewed by Viking Brewing Company
Style: Abbey Tripel
Dallas, Wisconsin USA

Pours cola color with little head. Sweet smelling apple, fruit, caramelized. Sweet flavor, boring. Watery.

12 oz bottle, from Blue Max in Burnsville, MN (Dec 2005. Deep molasses, somewhat thin-looking with lots of small bubbles creeping up the glass towards the smallish, lasting wisp of tan head....caramelized/baked apples, brown sugar and banana in the overtly sweet nose, berries and cream, quite lovely....the body is quite sweet at first, sticky but not syrupy, somewhat lactic/sour (growing towards the finish), with doughy yeast prominent, and a sort of cottony quality to the drying mouthfeel at the end, not enough to ruin it but a bit problematic....anise & grapy flavors throughout....above average for this brewer and drinkable enough, though not necessarily something I’d seek out again.

deep reddish amber, beige head. aroma is of mild chocolate and strawberry. flavor is dominated by sugar, strawberry, no chocolate present...has sort of a plasticy finish..the only real flaw i taste.

Clear mahogany. Nose sour with chocolate and sugars. Chocolate, plums, and bread. Alcohol a mite noticeable.

BLBF. Light raisin aroma. Dark murky pour, sans much of a head. Sugary, bready and yeast, but without much depth. Almost some rich olive oil notes. Finishes cloying and clingy.

(Bottle) Pours a medium brown body with an average-sized off-white head. Aroma of raisins, pear, white grapes, and lots of Granny Smith apples. Flavor is fruity (mostly apples) and malt. Dry finish.

Pours amber brown with a dissipating head. Big aroma of pear and apple. Flavor also of pears and apples. Enjoyable beer to drink, but seems to have no relation to the style is purports to be.

Bottle. Nose-lots of apples and taffy candy. This tastes like a thin dry cider. I liked this very much when I considered it as a cider. As an Abbey Dubbel, it is severely lacking.