Viking Brewing Berserk Barleywine

Brewed by Viking Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Dallas, Wisconsin USA

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of boboski. Hazy and opaque orangey brown with a small, off-white head. Sweetish spicy aroma with burned caramel and overripe fruit. Quite full-bodied, a little low in carbonation, plenty of overripe fruit and caramel. No actual bitterness. 201008

12 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown with a with a fully diminished off-white head. Smooth fruity and dense aroma. Dense fruity with a solid malty base and a mild wineous note. Ends wineous and smooth.

Hazy brown with no head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel, plums and prunes. Sweet flavour with dark overripe fruits, caramel and toasted malt.

(12oz bottle) Small tan head atop opaque dark brown body. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, raisin, some roast/burnt molasses. Taste is medium sweet, hollow raisin/caramel, some alcohol burn, medicinal. Medium-full body. Too bad the flavor didn’t keep up with the aroma.

12oz bottle acquired in trade with DavidP (thanks!). Poured a darker and muddy mahogany color with a very small sized off white head. Aromas of toffee, caramel, with some dark fruits. Tastes of caramel (lots of it), dark fruits (raisins, plums, and dark cherries), toffee, and lightly earthy. Alcohol content hidden.

(Bottle) Pours a hazy reddish-brown body with a small beige head. Aroma of toasted malt, dried fruit (dates, cherries), and molasses. Flavor of dark fruit, toasted bread, brown sugar, and spices.

Rich dark brown color with a light tan head and an almost green sheen to it, which leaves a thin lace behind as it subsides. Thick hoppy caramel and bready malt, cherry aroma combine with an earthy chocolate maltiness and molasses. Sweet viscous malty body has a sugary sweetness and good dark malt complexity with a nice roasted chocolatey finish. It could use some more balance, but it seems to mesh together better about half way through the bottle. Nice fresh hop presence throughout. Hides its alcohol very well. Probably the best Wisconsin barleywine I've had.

Pours dark brown with some sparse carbonation. Smells of chewy caramel, raisins and cognac. Tastes sweet and very English with lots of sugar, syrup and molasses. Decent for an English style barleywine.