Viking Brewing Dim Whit

Brewed by Viking Brewing Company
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Dallas, Wisconsin USA

12oz bottle.
Pours a cloudy, hazy orange-yellow with poofy effervescent white head that gradually settles. Aroma gives off nice bits of coriander, orange, and perfumy hops, plus a sharp citric note which is cause to worry given this brewery’s notorious signature tartness found when one of its batches has gone wrong (which happens too frequently, I’m afraid). Flavor is strange and soapy -- all that tart citrus I worried about in the aroma was absent in the flavor where at least some of it would have been welcome. Maybe the tartness got lost and accidentally found its way into a batch of the Viking Blonde or Sylvan Springs? Coriander was there and colluded with the hops to provide the dish-soap bitterness that should have been offset by the citrus. Light to medium-bodied with a strange, chalky palate. What a truly odd little beer. <P>I’m starting to think I should stick to the Big Swede impy stout and the Bereserk Barleywine and just forget everything else from this brewery. I’ve tried hard to like this place; the brewer is a great guy and Viking represents everything else great about the small-town Wisconsin brewing tradition. If only the beer quality would live up to the tradition...

Cloudy dark straw color with a taller white head. Light aromas with mild spice and floral scents. Has a real facial cream smell that I have a hard time getting past. Flavors are nice with plenty of spice - Coriander, ginger, mace and orange zest. Quite zippy in feel, nearly too much so. Seems a bit watery when looking for some depth past the spices. Middle and finish have some faint berry flavors. I could use a touch more malt backbone.

Very unusual aroma of ginger ale, like a spiced candle, sweet and honeyish. Golden color with small white head. Flavor is 1/2 ginger ale mixed with light beer. Citrus flavors, honey, soapiness. Very unusual lacing. Fizzy in the mouth. Interesting brew.

12oz bottle acquired in trade with robertsreality (thanks!). Poured a light to medium and hazy yellow color with a huge, huge sized white head. Aromas of yeast, ginger, spicey, light citrus, and cloves. Tastes of lemons, ginger, wheat, other spices, and citrus. Tart (almost lip puckering tart) finish.

Pale yellow with an average head. Flavor is light grain, citrus fruit, coriander, with a slight ginger finish. Body is light for the style. Solid beer from Viking.

12 ounce bottle. Shaker glass. Very pale golden with a huge soapy head. Aroma was all ginger ale. Taste was tangy and heavy on the ginger with some notes of citrus. A bit watery. Not for my taste.

Picked up a single bottle from Blue Max in Burnsville, MN. Pours a very, very light gold brew, almost as clear as water. One of the lightest brews I’ve seen to this date. The brew also forms a very fizzy white head, even at cold temperatures. Slowly dissolves after five minutes with a terrific lacing. Aroma is like P&G Ivory soap. No kidding! Maybe some orange peel, a twist of lime, but that Ivory soap knocked me off my seat. Taste is high citrus, spices and wheat to the extreme. Palate is a bit acidic, then sweet with a blast of ginger. A definate summer beer, but not while cutting the grass. Also, this is not the type of beer I would recommend drinking while play a couple rounds of billiards, but it is an interesting beverage to sample.

Transparent, pale and bright yellow in color with laundry suds floating on the top for some time. Fierce aroma recons with lime juice, beaucoup de coriander, aged peppercorn, buttered corn stalks and ginger salve. Flavor holds true to a Sierra Mist with Splenda tasting surplus. Ginger hugs lemon cream for a soapy, stagnantly bare composure. Fluffy effervescence hides the flavor’s shortcomings. Mineral water sparkles with lime juice parallels. Coriander downplays for a lime flavor that favors corn flakes, singing predominantly with lemon-lime into the night.