Hucklejack
Waterloo Brewing
- From:
- Waterloo Brewing
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Adjunct Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.54 | pDev: 5.65%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 20, 2022
- Added:
- Jun 07, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.19/5 rDev -9.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.19/5 rDev -9.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Tallboy from the LCBO; coded Apr 17 2020 and served slightly chilled.
Pours clear golden-blonde, generating more than two fingers of lumpy, soapy white head that withers within five minutes or so. Several rings of lacing are deposited on its way down, with a quarter-inch cap and collar of creamy foam remaining in place afterwards. Looks fantastic, but the nose is another story - gritty, grainy pale malt and berry-scented lip balm are what I'm getting.
It tastes a little bit better than it smells IMO, but I'm still not real big on this one. Grainy pale malts and bready sweetness at first, with the huckleberry flavour - which tastes kind of like a blueberry, crossed with something like a blackberry - coming through by mid-sip and lasting into the finish, which also introduces a touch of herbal, earthy bitterness. The aftertaste is persistent and my least favourite part of the profile - a little bitter, but also astringent, with some metallicity - but the berry flavouring lingers longest of all. Light in body, with very aggressive carbonation at first - I'd almost call it overcarbonated, but it does exhaust itself soon enough, resulting in a crisp, relatively refreshing texture. I finished this can without a fuss, but I wouldn't call this particularly drinkable - though I suppose I did start drinking it faster just so I could move on to something else.
Final Grade: 3.19, a mediocre C+. Hucklejack is a berry flavoured novelty lager, and a thoroughly average one at that - at the end of the day, I don't think the berry flavour helps this beer that much, as I'd much rather be drinking an unflavoured pale lager. That being said, if a berry lager sounds interesting then by all means do try it - I'm not in the business of discouraging BAs from ticking new beers, even the ones that I most likely will not be returning to.
Nov 21, 2020Pours clear golden-blonde, generating more than two fingers of lumpy, soapy white head that withers within five minutes or so. Several rings of lacing are deposited on its way down, with a quarter-inch cap and collar of creamy foam remaining in place afterwards. Looks fantastic, but the nose is another story - gritty, grainy pale malt and berry-scented lip balm are what I'm getting.
It tastes a little bit better than it smells IMO, but I'm still not real big on this one. Grainy pale malts and bready sweetness at first, with the huckleberry flavour - which tastes kind of like a blueberry, crossed with something like a blackberry - coming through by mid-sip and lasting into the finish, which also introduces a touch of herbal, earthy bitterness. The aftertaste is persistent and my least favourite part of the profile - a little bitter, but also astringent, with some metallicity - but the berry flavouring lingers longest of all. Light in body, with very aggressive carbonation at first - I'd almost call it overcarbonated, but it does exhaust itself soon enough, resulting in a crisp, relatively refreshing texture. I finished this can without a fuss, but I wouldn't call this particularly drinkable - though I suppose I did start drinking it faster just so I could move on to something else.
Final Grade: 3.19, a mediocre C+. Hucklejack is a berry flavoured novelty lager, and a thoroughly average one at that - at the end of the day, I don't think the berry flavour helps this beer that much, as I'd much rather be drinking an unflavoured pale lager. That being said, if a berry lager sounds interesting then by all means do try it - I'm not in the business of discouraging BAs from ticking new beers, even the ones that I most likely will not be returning to.
Reviewed by Tony787 from Canada (ON)
3.75/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
I bought this can at lcbo I thought in my mind I would not like it because of the flavor I was wrong the flavor is actually very good and enjoyable to drink it .
A good craft Canadian lager with a nice flavor.
Cheers
Jul 30, 2020A good craft Canadian lager with a nice flavor.
Cheers
Reviewed by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.64/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.64/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Pours nice golden colour and leaves lots of lacing on my glass. The smell is somewhat fruity, probably huckleberry, but since I’ve never tasted a huckleberry, I’m just guessing. Taste is again with the fruit overtop of a nice crisp lager. Just subtle hints of the fruit flavour. Mouthfeel is smooth and mid-to-full bodied. Nice beer
June 10 2020
Jun 11, 2020June 10 2020
Reviewed by pootz from Canada (ON)
3.24/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.24/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
This is a fully gristed malt Canadian craft lager with Huckleberry essence...Can : Pours a pale straw color with 2 finger rocky white cap that lasts....aromas of bready malts and berries...flavor has light maltiness in front, then berry tones kick in...goes to a clean crisp finish dominated with a sour bittering...decent enough patio fare for summer sipping
Jun 07, 2020
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