Montana Trout Slayer Wheat Ale | Big Sky Brewing Company
Brewed by:
Big Sky Brewing Company
Montana, United States
bigskybrew.com
Style: American Pale Wheat Ale
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 5.00%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
Trout Slayer is a filtered wheat ale, fermented at cool temperatures, making it a smooth drinkable session beer. Brewed with Palisade, Glacier, and Mt. Hood hops, this straw colored beer is sure to please any craft beer drinker.
Added by Bitterbill on 09-12-2007
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Ratings: 773 | Reviews: 320
3.75/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.65/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
The appearance was a nice clear golden yellow color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipates within about a minute. There’s not really any lacing. The smell had a good combination of sweet citrus hops to sweet caramel malts. There’s even a small dose of honey. The taste had a nice sweetness all around. There isn’t an aftertaste but it has dry finish. On the palate, this one sits about a light on the body. There’s a decent sessionability about it. Overall, well it’s a pretty good beer. There just isn’t much with the wheat. Still, this one shows it’s worth in the Summer months.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
The appearance was a nice clear golden yellow color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipates within about a minute. There’s not really any lacing. The smell had a good combination of sweet citrus hops to sweet caramel malts. There’s even a small dose of honey. The taste had a nice sweetness all around. There isn’t an aftertaste but it has dry finish. On the palate, this one sits about a light on the body. There’s a decent sessionability about it. Overall, well it’s a pretty good beer. There just isn’t much with the wheat. Still, this one shows it’s worth in the Summer months.
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1.79/5 rDev -50.3%
look: 2 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.75
12 oz bottle. Did someone pour a Budweiser into this microbeer bottle? This is the blandest micro I’ve ever had, without a doubt. This is a wheat ale? What the hell went wrong here? Addendum: the last quarter of the glass is better. Some flavors emerge that I can’t quite identify. Still, I’m sticking with my original statement: blandest micro ever.
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look: 2 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.75
12 oz bottle. Did someone pour a Budweiser into this microbeer bottle? This is the blandest micro I’ve ever had, without a doubt. This is a wheat ale? What the hell went wrong here? Addendum: the last quarter of the glass is better. Some flavors emerge that I can’t quite identify. Still, I’m sticking with my original statement: blandest micro ever.
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3.75/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.76/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a clear golden color with a medium head. Has a hoppy smell but not an overpowering hop flavor like an IPA. Not overly carbonated nice mouth feel but a slight hop aftertaste.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a clear golden color with a medium head. Has a hoppy smell but not an overpowering hop flavor like an IPA. Not overly carbonated nice mouth feel but a slight hop aftertaste.
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3.66/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.74/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
12 oz can poured into a pint glass, hazy gold color with medium white head. Smell is floral and citrus. Taste is smooth wheat with a crisp finish, very mild compared to other German wheats but also hoppier than I expected. Nice mix of wheat, grain and lemony flavor without being overpowering at all. I found a six-pack on clearance at my local shop for $6.99 and will be going back to ask if they have any more. My first sample of Big Sky makes me want to try their other offerings.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
12 oz can poured into a pint glass, hazy gold color with medium white head. Smell is floral and citrus. Taste is smooth wheat with a crisp finish, very mild compared to other German wheats but also hoppier than I expected. Nice mix of wheat, grain and lemony flavor without being overpowering at all. I found a six-pack on clearance at my local shop for $6.99 and will be going back to ask if they have any more. My first sample of Big Sky makes me want to try their other offerings.
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3/5 rDev -16.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.85/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
355ml bottle poured into tulip.
Pours a slightly hazy golden yellow with one finger of white head that leaves dripping sheets of lace as it recedes.
Smells of rising white bread dough, orange peel, cut flowers and summer grass.
Tastes of grainy wheat malt, citric sharpness, white bread crust and more grassy hops.
Feels soft and fizzy. Light bodied with perky carbonation. Finishes dry.
Verdict: Recommended. Pretty good thirst quencher.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
355ml bottle poured into tulip.
Pours a slightly hazy golden yellow with one finger of white head that leaves dripping sheets of lace as it recedes.
Smells of rising white bread dough, orange peel, cut flowers and summer grass.
Tastes of grainy wheat malt, citric sharpness, white bread crust and more grassy hops.
Feels soft and fizzy. Light bodied with perky carbonation. Finishes dry.
Verdict: Recommended. Pretty good thirst quencher.
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3.25/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
4.68/5 rDev +30%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
3.5/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.67/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
From a can into a glass on a table on a deck in a backyard in eastern Nebraska in the evening.
Pours a fabulous yellow gold color with tons of head to start, and the effervescent bubbles DO NOT STOP, it just continues, like a show or a movie while you drink the beer. I can't stress how cool this is...it's like watching a fishtank. Or fireworks.
Aroma is faint, but of caramel malt, pale malt, orange peel, and wheat chaff. Maybe a hint of barley and coriander.
Flavor is more upfront with a piney bite and lingering orange peels, not much for malt here, just dry barley and wheat powder.
Feel is rather on point with some heavy carbonation and easy quenchability.
Overall, a short review indeed, but nothing really stuck out to me here. More bitter than I'd have liked; no nose, best part was the appearance. I'll pass next time.
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look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
From a can into a glass on a table on a deck in a backyard in eastern Nebraska in the evening.
Pours a fabulous yellow gold color with tons of head to start, and the effervescent bubbles DO NOT STOP, it just continues, like a show or a movie while you drink the beer. I can't stress how cool this is...it's like watching a fishtank. Or fireworks.
Aroma is faint, but of caramel malt, pale malt, orange peel, and wheat chaff. Maybe a hint of barley and coriander.
Flavor is more upfront with a piney bite and lingering orange peels, not much for malt here, just dry barley and wheat powder.
Feel is rather on point with some heavy carbonation and easy quenchability.
Overall, a short review indeed, but nothing really stuck out to me here. More bitter than I'd have liked; no nose, best part was the appearance. I'll pass next time.
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4.25/5 rDev +18.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
3.79/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
I poured this from a bottle into a clear teardrop a glass. It pours a straw yellow with a two finger white head. It seems to be moderately hopped with a slight gapefruit taste. Really good beer!
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
I poured this from a bottle into a clear teardrop a glass. It pours a straw yellow with a two finger white head. It seems to be moderately hopped with a slight gapefruit taste. Really good beer!
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3.79/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
Hmmm. Montana is not known for its wheat beer. I don't know why but most are mediocre to terrible. This one is good. Not Midwest great.... But good especially compared to the other local offers.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
Hmmm. Montana is not known for its wheat beer. I don't know why but most are mediocre to terrible. This one is good. Not Midwest great.... But good especially compared to the other local offers.
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3.55/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Refreshing after summer sun.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Refreshing after summer sun.
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3.59/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
APPEARANCE: A hazy yellow/golden. Half finger of quickly dissipating head, spotty lacing. Fair carbonation when rocking the glass.
AROMA: Wheaty, slightly skunky, grainy, citrus.
TASTE: Soft on the palate. Light lemon/citrus, and a little spiciness. Kind of an off putting funk.
FEEL: Medium thin body, soft but adequately carbed, drying on finish.
OVERALL: Kind of one note, and blah with an odd little aftertaste/funk.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
APPEARANCE: A hazy yellow/golden. Half finger of quickly dissipating head, spotty lacing. Fair carbonation when rocking the glass.
AROMA: Wheaty, slightly skunky, grainy, citrus.
TASTE: Soft on the palate. Light lemon/citrus, and a little spiciness. Kind of an off putting funk.
FEEL: Medium thin body, soft but adequately carbed, drying on finish.
OVERALL: Kind of one note, and blah with an odd little aftertaste/funk.
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3.37/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Yellow beer, pretty light colored, 1/2" white head. Aroma, seemed like a kolsch almost. This is an ale?
More bitterness than expected, taste looking up. Very like cracker barley and winter wheat kind of softness here. Carbonation helps with the beer, keeping it light and seeming from letting the bitterness stomp all over everything else, that isn't there in terms of quantity.
I wouldn't say this really showcases the wheat, but the somewhat unusual hop bill seems of the higher alpha acid variety, either that, or the malt bill is super light.
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look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Yellow beer, pretty light colored, 1/2" white head. Aroma, seemed like a kolsch almost. This is an ale?
More bitterness than expected, taste looking up. Very like cracker barley and winter wheat kind of softness here. Carbonation helps with the beer, keeping it light and seeming from letting the bitterness stomp all over everything else, that isn't there in terms of quantity.
I wouldn't say this really showcases the wheat, but the somewhat unusual hop bill seems of the higher alpha acid variety, either that, or the malt bill is super light.
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Montana Trout Slayer Wheat Ale from Big Sky Brewing Company
3.6
out of 5
based on 773 ratings.
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75