Huck It
Big Sky Brewing Company

Favorite Montana beer!

 

From a12oz can. I am guessing it was made on the 210th day of 2025 based on the bottom.

This beer looks pink while pouring it into the glass. In the glass it has more of an amber color. There's a nice steady stream of carbonation bubbles that slowly rise in the glass. There's a 2 finger off white colored head that has a pink hue to it. The head retention is decent, and there's some lacing on the glass.
The aroma is just fully influenced by the huckleberries. There's just a faint hint of grain in the aroma. There's a nice hint of grain that shows up right away. It has a honey like sweetness to it. The huckleberries do kick in after and they are quite strong and pleasing. I can tell that it is a real flavor and not artificial. It is a pleasing flavor to my throat.
The beer feels quite refreshing. It has a nice feeling to it from the huckleberries. Smooth feeling and nice depth.
Overall, this is a tasty and refreshing beer. Glad I bought it.

 

 

 

A- This pours a beautiful purple amber color with a super white head that retains quite well.....it leaves only a thin white layer that is thick yet only receedes on the one side providing an interesting layer over the brew. The lacing is good, but not great, only leaving behind a thick layer that skews from thick to thin over the layer itself. Lacing is also not great, but it does provide a thick layer that quickly gravitates back towards one side to a thin patchwork.

S- I smell plenty of Summer berry, with some tart Huckleberry aroma with after notes of blueberry, red berry, light malts and a finish that is somewhat bitter and fruitlike , which suggests a hop presence....there is a little funk here but overall it seems like it is in character for the style

T- The tartness of the berries is not as tart as I would have expected and the malt sweetness is more than I would have guessed, and overall this would be a balanced fruit forward brew on the palate...with slightly tart huckleberry, raspberry and blueberry flavor, with malt sweetness to counter the sour, this area is very pleasant, contrary to what I thought it would be like

M/O- Thin in body and surprisingly the carbonation is much more mellow than I would have thought. this one is a rather easy drinking blonde ale that is much creamier than I would have thought in the beginning, as per a majority of Montana Huckleberry ales are. I would definitely enjoy this one again and recommend it to anyone who wants to enjoy something that isn't the norm yet is easy enough to enjoy on a casual basis.

 

Bottle from Albertsons. Golden body with some violet hues, a few bubbles fade to flat. Aroma is berries, pure and simple. Taste continues with more fruity flavors, huckleberry jam. Light and slick.

 

 

I got a can of this beer off a single shelf from the Tower Falls General Store in Yellowstone National Park. The beer poured a clear rose color with thin white head that is not leaving much lace. The scent had huckleberry notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with crisp stelzerie malt base with huckleberry presence. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall it is a great beer.

12oz can. Stamped on can bottom is '074235'.
Clear, red berry tinted pale gold colored body. Brief off white head yields to a partial island and ring. Just a few scattered spots of lacing.
Aroma of golden malts and sweet/tart berry.
Taste is sweet/tart berry (huckleberry) added to a golden ale (pale malts and grassy/earthy hops).
Medium mouth feel. Crisp and tingly on the tongue. Good carbonation.
A golden ale that can both quench the thirst and cleanse the palate.

 

Pale pink in color. Looks like a shandy. Fruit-forward nose. Weak head. Labeled by the brewer as a "Huckleberry Blonde Ale" but tastes only of huckleberry, and nothing of blonde ale. In short, very badly balanced.

This might as well be a spiked huckleberry seltzer. Bought in cans at a retail outlet when a North Idaho brewer's Huckleberry Cream Ale that I came in to buy was sold out. If Big Sky Brewing is going to keep labeling this a blonde ale, a drinker should be able to tell that by taste. It tastes of huckleberry and nothing else. Definitely not recommended.

 

 

Some over-carbonation issues but really good for what it's supposed to be. Like the fruit character a lot for this beer - it's a nice blonde ale with augmented flavoring from a fruit that doesn't dominate but is there.

Can poured into a Big Sky Brewing Co pint glass

A: Pours faintly hazy with a frothy off white head that settles to a firm layer and laces nicely. Very happy to see it's not some weird pink purple color like some other berry beers I've tried.

S: Sweet huckleberry dominates, a little floral, slight tartness, wheat, bready malt, and honey sweetness.

T: Solid hit of sweet huckleberry, slight tartness, floral notes, slight earthiness, chewy wheat, doughy bready malt, and honey sweetness.

M: Light to medium body, moderately lively carbonation.

O: Huckleberry flavor comes through loud and clear. It can get a bit sweet, but it's definitely a fun one to try.

Aroma is huckleberry/blueberry and pale malts/grains. The flavor is huckleberry, pale malts/grains, fruit and a slightly nutty/almost pastry/smooth finish.