Viking Brewing Vienna Woods

Brewed by Viking Brewing Company
Style: Vienna
Dallas, Wisconsin USA

12 ounce bottle. Shaker glass. Amber with a thin head. Aroma was roasted malt. Flavor was sweet roast malt, caramel and sour apples. Watery mouthfeel. I couldn’t get past the sourness, which seemed a little too dominant for this style.

Bottle. Hazy orange body, thin off-white head. Sweet, sugary aroma, cerealy. Thin, cloyingly sweet body, with brown sugar and some earthy fall leaf characteristics. Nutty, tangy, and strange.

Picked up a single bottle from Blue Max in Burnsville, MN. Pours a hazy orange amber with a slowly dissolving white head. Leaves behind a fine film and good lacing. Aroma of citrus, roasted almonds, toffee, and a little grassy. Taste is average with herbs and citrus aftertaste. Palate is clean and smooth. Maybe a hint of lactose. Interesting brew for a Vienna, though a little on the sweet side.

12oz bottle, no date. Pours a clear copper with some tiny black floaties and a minimal film of off-white head. Aroma of dirt, toasty malts, toffee, nutmeg and a bit of nuts. The dirt is strongest and it isn’t dirt in a good way. Flavor is a little bit better with a bit of tang I had in their last beer, toasty and nutty malts, and a dirt nut finish. Medium body with minimal carbonation. Better than the last Viking brew, but still kinda sucky.

Pours to a golden orange with a very off-putting vinegar and soy sauce aroma. Tastes of salty biscuit cookies,iron, lemonish chemicals...too much steak sauce tang. Very strange. A new and unexciting episode of ’unpleasant brew meets the kitchen sink.’

From a 12 oz. twist off stubby bottle with no freshness date. Poured a hazy golden hued dull orange with a frothy, rocky, foamy head, good retention, maybe too much, small amount of sticking. Aromas of apple and green grapes, lager yeasty and a light caramel with some honey. Fizzy carbonation and a crisp, carbonated smooth medium-light bodied mouthfeel, for me, a little over carbonated. Sweet and sour fruity tasting. grapes with sour lemon squeezed over them, a subtle graininess and caramel, a bit sugary as well, herbal tea-like hops, and a dry toasted grainy finish with some salty mineral, metallic edges. I’m afraid that I didn’t care for this, when compared to other Vienna Lagers, like from Great Lakes or Bohemia, this really falls short in the taste and drinkability departments.

12oz bottle-Aroma of sweetness, honey and hops on an amber body. Tastes of about the same as arom with a hint of caramel.

Hazed and dull amber in color with sediment floating freely under a thin grey ice sheaf. Cardboard and caramel systematically assault the nose, followed by toasted chestnuts, sandalwood and praline nut fudge matter. Aromatically strong and forceful. Flavor spews forth water chestnuts and maple fudge pressed on cardboard out of want for wax paper. Somber carbonation gains a cinnamon-heavy gingerbread man manner. Rubbery pecans get plucked out of maple oat pools. A fairly sweet treat that alludes to maple flavored Pillsbury cookie rolls on a forgotten test mission, falling into a finish of frail maple wood shavings, chalky toffee nougats and mild malted chocolate milk balls.