Viking Brewing Vienna Woods

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

One solid looking Vienna with the color resembling a cloud of rust, thin off-white head with bigger bubbles on the opposite side from the pour, lace is in light stringy patches all over the glass. Smell is quite nice of sweet roastyness and playing with a crispy biscuit tone and a pleasurable light dry hop and citrus likeness in the backing of dull orangey grapefruitishness, quite a nice little nose. Taste is a subtle complex layering of roasty crisp but softish malts with nice sweet twingyness, very fresh, with a sweet yeasty bread dough coming through in the middle and entering into a very easy calm bitterness with a light smokey, deep woodish tang hovering over a very dulled orange and grapefruity easyness with a light crispy smooth, lightly creamy drying finish. Solid. Feel is near perfect for a Vienna, solid medium body, a few missed areas in front but still chalked full of easy smoothness and a partially creamy drying finish lingering. The drinkability is quite nice and easy, a nice surprise and one heck of a decent Vienne(non-Oktoberfest) Styled brew. Top notch and highy recommendable.

Bomber. Poured a medium golden with a two-finger white head... nice lacing followed the brew down. Very nice toasty, malty aroma of caramel and toffee... just a tad weak. Smooth, malty flavor profile with a very pleasant caramel component... the other side comes from crisp floral hoppage. Definitely nothing too crazy or special in this one, but it was very smooth and quite enjoyable.

Pours a clean white head with a slight tannic tinge. Aroma is strikingly pleasant - fruity, malty and also quite "woodsy", much like the aroma right next to a large sequoia. The malts are decidedly high quality. Lots of little bubbles by sight but still not enough carbonation in the mouth (as with some of the other brews from this source). This lager is quite smooth but also somewhat thin and watery. Flavor is dominated by malt, with a good hop balance and a really nice "old tyme" flavor overall. A smokiness comes through in the aftertaste, as does a touch of Campari. As an American Heartland brew, this is a quite impressive clone of a Vienna lager.

Pale amber with a quickly dissipating head. Attractive noble hop aroma. Sharp carbonation hit the tongue but then the malt envelops it. There is a little bit of sourness in the malt that actually lends to its being quite crisp. Not quite as dark as I expected, but a very nice vienna.

Bottle. Brown-tinted amber body. Taffy-sweet aroma with notes of brownie chocolate along with light floral potpourri. Nice pale malt sweetness in the flavor but with an unexpected stemmy hoppiness. Finishes with a lingering grassy bitterness. Butter, biscuit-dough malts. Dry mouthfeel. Nothing terribly complex here just an enjoyable take on the style.

Copper color with little head. The aroma seemed to be of very dry hops, if that makes any sense at all... More hops in the taste than I was expecting. This seemed almost like a mild pale ale. Slightly bitter and dry. Nice take on the style.

Copper Coloring. I don’t care for alot of Hops, and although that was the domineering flavor...it was mild and balanced...midly bitter, but very enjoyable.

12oz bottle.
What’s this? A recent Viking beer with no quality problems? No overwhelming metallic tartness? You actually hear a "tsst!" of escaping carbon gas when you open it? Be still my twittering heart! Pours a medium-light straw color that is a bit light for the style with smallish-medium white head with decent retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of delicately toasted malt and spicy floral hops. Flavor mostly the same with restrained malt sweetness and a tiny bit of tart fruitiness that is not consistent with the style and results in a ding in the "flavor" score. Medium, average palate. Not too bad.