Golden Meadow
Valkyrie Brewing

From a 12oz bottle purchased at the brewery.

This beer is actually fairly clear looking and straw colored. A decent amount of small carbonation bubbles rise in the glass to form a 1 finger white head. The frothy looking head has decent retention, and there's just a tiny bit of lacing on the glass.
The aroma is quite strong and pleasing. There's just a ton of clove aroma in here backed up by a pleasing banana aroma.
Taste - Taste is the opposite of the nose to me. I just get a ton of banana that just doesn't let up. This banana is backed up by a pleasing clove undertone. There's also a slightly grassy flavor that also comes into the mix, that works well with the main players.
The body is quite soft feeling, which, considering they have naturally very soft water at the brewery, is not surprising. Slightly bubbly feeling, and quite smooth also.
Damn solid beer overall, and I'm glad they're brewing it again.

I always prepare to be surprised each time I pop open a Viking brew. You just never know what it's gonna taste like...
This "hefeweizen" poured a slightly hazy--mostly clean--golden straw with a very small, wispy white head. Smells of sweetish Belgian malt, honey, and weird yeast. Interesting? Funky? Yep. Taste starts with tangy, crisp wheat malt. Then there's a bushel of granny smith apples. Okay...Finish is wheat bitter with lingering apple-wheat malt. Confusing, but refreshing. Mouthfeel is a little thin and bubbly. See, I told you; you never know what you're gonna get!

Golden it is, clear at the bottom, hazy all throughout, smallish ring of whitish foam.Aroma: not nice..overly sweet, spoiled...orange rinds, banana peels, left rotting in the sun...not good at all.
Taste: bluh, blah, blech. Flat, lifeless, lightly fruity, lackluster in extremis. Same off flavors scented in the aroma return to haunt the flavor, it's a shadow of a shell of a taste. Thin, wet cardboard, rimmed with lemon and banana, tepid at best, bordering on offensive at times.
Really didn't want to say these things, but have no choice, it's a huge mistake. Don't know how they can taste this stuff and still give it the go ahead.
Avoid, one and all, ...Viking makes good beers, but this ain't one of them!

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!

The color is golden orange. Not much of a head to talk about. This is really a sad excuse for a bavarian weissbier. There is almost no carbonation. The mouthfeel is very flat and syrupy. The taste isn't bad, but it is nothing near what a weissbier should taste like. I'm not sure what it tastes like exactly. No weizen characteristics are present. I taste more of a sweet malt taste, a little like a vienna or octoberfest. This one is bizarre. I will finish all 22 oz, so it's not a bad beer.

This little brewery in WI makes some pretty solid beer, but this is definitely not one of them. I will try to figure out a date code for this bottle and be sure this is not a bottle from last summer.