Laughing Dog Huckleberry Cream Ale

Tap @ Piper Pub - Pale golden color and clear with a very nice frothy egg white head. The nose is lovely with real fruit as opposed to that artifical fruit extract sweetness. Huckleberries and hints of spice. Unfortunately this one falls short on the palate and is quite lackluster. A very weak cream ale with biscuity pale maltiness, and finishes kind of flat and watery.

Slightly hazy golden yellow, average white head. Very robust aroma of blackberries and blueberries (which, I take it, is what huckleberries smell like?). The palate is similarly dominated by the fruit. This beer is saved by two things: the nice creamy mouthfeel and the more-than-usual bitterness in the finish. I enjoyed it.

Bottle: Pours a gold color with spotty lacing and decent head. The nose is bright and fresh with nice sweet huckleberry and sweet malts as well, like a fruit sorbet or a fruit pie, nice smell. The flavor is tasty, the hop bitterness stands out a bit more than I usually like, but it has a decent body and plenty of clean malty flavor and fruity accents that keep coming up. Finishes smooth and creamy. Delicious huckleberry beer

On tap at Henry’s 12th Street Taproom in Portland, OR--Cloudy golden body with a fluffy soft white head. Fruity, artificially flavored Flintstone Vitamin Chewables nose. Finished like the flavor of sweet Cool Aid after brushing your teeth. Eh.

bottled, pours medium yellow with minimal white head with good carbonation, aroma of strong berries but nothing scary, cider like citrus up front on palate with nice berry flavor in the middle followed by lingering yeast, very smooth and not artificially fruity tasting.