Lang Creek Huckleberry N Honey

Formerly brewed at Lang Creek Brewing Co.
Style: Fruit Beer
Marion, Montana USA

Say what you like about liking fruit beers, but this might be my favorite. The honey helps to bring out the taste of huckleberry.

Pours gold with some haze and a nice white head. Smells of huckleberries, some tarte hints, apples, subtle honey and wheat. Tastes of huckleberries, some tarte lemony tinges, earthy and has a mellow bitterness and tangy finish. Refreshing and palatable.

Bottle: Light golden color with a large creamy white head. Aroma of berries, but somewhat off, sort of a lambic tartness to the smell--not like fresh berries. Fresh huckleberry flavor is nice, in a very light bodied ale with minimal hop presence. Finish is crisp and light. A summer session beer. Lang does a nice job of crafting an interesting fruit beer from Northwestern Montana's trademark berry.

In the bottle from 99 Beers on federal Way in WA. Pours a slightly cloudy waxy gold with a medium fleeting white head. Incredible aroma that emits honey sweetness and huckleberry pie right out of the oven. Flavor is tart and dry, not sweet. The finishing berry taste is quite nice, but the aroma is out of this world. I like. This beer is woefully underappreciated right now with an overall rating of 2.4!

An interesting, fruity, light beer. It has just the right amount of sweetness and fruit. good stuff.

I really enjoyed my fresh sample obtained less than 50 miles from the brewery. It is a light friuty and with a bit of sweetness. Think of this beer as a summer dessert sipper. I like this better than any of the other huckleberry beers I have had.

Straw yellow color, lightly misty, retentive pale yellow head, moderate lacing and very balanced carbonation. The nose is sweet with some berryness and an off wheatish note that really steals the spotlight and ruins the show, this had some promise from the berries. The flavor is lightly sweet, almost no hops and a creamy mouthfeel. Watery body and almost no aftertaste. A decent fruit beer but it stumbles in several areas.

12oz bottle notched on October (purchase before date), thanks to riversideAK (Alex). Hazy golden with a one finger fading off-white head. Aroma of grape jelly, raspberry preserves, and some Trix(R) cereal. The flavor is still fruity, but less sweet and a bit more tart--I get a hint of lemon acidity. Plenty of sweet wheat in the finish. Bitterness is minimal. I got a bit of a Cherry Luden’s cough drop in the aftertaste on a couple swallows. Low prickly carbonation with a light body. Not too bad, actually--though I don’t think I could make it through more than one or two in a night.