Viking Brewing Golden Meadow

Formerly brewed at Viking Brewing Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
Dallas, Wisconsin USA

Dull, clear light yellow, miniscule white head, some strings and spots of lace stick. Smell is down right unpleasant, not anywhere near what a hefe should be. Some funky yeast of musky wood and nearly the same barnyard punch Cantillon lambics have, just toned down. Sorry, but save the funky stuff for the funky lambics and not anything else. Smells like a chemisty experiment gone horribly wrong. Taste ain't much better but doesn't carry over much of the stronger characteristics from the smell but yet he yeast is dominant throughout and all over the place and just plain wrong. Nothing fits, nothing balances, its a pure mess. The wheat that is in there is way in the back and barley traceable. Its bizarrely sweet and twingy, strangely vinous and sour. I cannot begin to discribe my cringing as I try to continue sipping this beer, but it just ain't happening. If drinking this blind you wouldn't have a clue what this beer is trying to accomplish besides being bad. It might pass as a lambic, but as a hefe it plain stinks! How can Viking make two fine brews such as Big Swede and Whole Stein even consider that this is at the same respective level of craft? Nasty yuk junk. I was told this was a new batch that had come in; if so...huh? Bad bottle or not, never again. Never!

MABR-Golden color,small white head that faded quickly.Wheat aroma,citrus.Citrus,wheat flavor slightly grassy with little else.Decent but there are better out there.

A light wheat with a light color. There is some citrus in the aroma. Fruit in the aroma and the flavor. Thin and very refreshing. I think viking could do a better wheat. An ok beer, certainly not bold as the description says. Doesn't seem to be a wheat at all, but a good summer be anyway.