Bottled ay Monk’s Café Wallingatan, Stockholm. Lightly hazy amber, rich firm head. Floral strawberry aroma. Mid-sweet and fruity with toasty, lightly caramelly grainy malt providing a fairly soft mouthfeel. Finishes with low bitterness. A harmonious floral and aromatic beer with good balance.

Pours caramel color with off white head. Aroma of lightly toasted malts. Sweet, nutty flavor with some toasty maltiness, and mild hop bitterness. Medium body with moderate carbonation and a creamy mouthfeel. Better than expected.

Rating #1000.

12 oz. Bottle purchased at Metcalf Discount Liquors on 91st St in Overland Park, KS. Mar WK4 notched on side of the bottle. Pour is clear copper ruby with a two inch dirty white head that fades to reveal nice lacing. Aroma of sweet caramel biscuit maltiness and some nuttiness. There is also some faint chemical dirtiness present. Taste is muted sweet hazelnut and maltiness. The palate is slick, thin and quite drinkable. The aftertaste lingers a bit long, once again with the chemical dirtiness. Nice, quaffable beer.

Why did I choose this beer for #1000? Simple, it was the first craft beer I ever tasted, and it had a profound impression on the way I looked at beer. Previous to sampling this beer at one of the early Lakefront brewery tours in 1991, I thought beer was pissy yellow stuff that was consumed solely to remove sobriety. This beer was different, and the approach of the brewers was different. The Lakefront guys taught us about what beer was, and how they, as an extremely small brewery at the time, had gotten to where they were. I was completely consumed by the story, and the beer was fantastic. Granted, Lakefront was far from the first to do this, they were just the first one I noticed. Would I have become a craft beer enthusiast without this beer? Of course, I think that was inevitable. However, this beer is singularly present in my mind as the beer that showed beer could be something more, and something important. In a not so small way, this singular experience opened my mind to exploring food, wine, coffee, etc, the list could go on and on. Thank you Jim. Thank you Russ.

Thanks to buckybeer for this one. Clear dark amber over a choppy off-white head. Sweet, ,fruity, malty. Some diacetyl maybe? Easy drinking.

Bottle from a sampler from Whole Foods Charlottesville. Looks nice... a deep copper color with small but stubborn head. Aroma is caramel and hops. Taste too has a nice bitterness balancing out the hops. All-malt this is not, but it does taste quite nice.

Bottle. Copper beer with an off-white head. Mineral. light spice, malt aroma. malt flavor with some spicy noble hop backing. Lingering malt sweetness, spice, and grass. Medium bodied.

Mild caramel aroma. Amber color. White head. Near medium body with creamy carbonation. Flavor is a balance of caramel and resiny hop. A rather hoppy Vienna. The finish is reasonably dry, with a decent amount of bitter. Lager or ale? Hard to tell. If you know, send me a message! Or should I trust the label? A damn decent lager. If AB adopted this recipe, profits would go down, but America would rule.

Bottle. Pours a coppery color and supports a one-finger khaki head that is not going away. Aromas are of sweet malt and floral hops with a little bit of a spicy edge to it. Flavor is decidedly malt heavy... a nice caramel presence with a thick mouthfeel and a bit of a creamy contexture. Hops are present and help round out the finish, but are secondary to the malty body. Very nicely balanced.

12 oz bottle; nose of caramel malt and sweetness; dark copper with a big long-lasting, glass-lacing beige head; flavor of caramel and some fruity sweet notes, with a tiny bit of lingering bitterness for a finish. Very good vienna!