Big Sky Montana Trout Slayer Ale

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.

SRM 5

2.9

470 reviews

Missoula, United States

Community reviews

2.7 Bottle: Almost clear gold with a small white head. Wheat, lemon, grassy aroma. Taste is rather bland....wheat malt....the hop mixture seemed to imitate that of a conglomo-lager.....just amped up a bit.....not great.

4.0 Battle poured into dof tumbler, pale, sparkling, small amount of head. Aroma in malts include: bread. Hop aroma is floral. Soft, almost flat carbonation. Flavorful, light bodied. Very good.

3.1 sample at brewery, very light and moderate wheat aroma and flavor. Moderate drinkability. Its ok, rather have the lager though.

2.4 12 oz. can. Pours clear golden, good foamy lasting white head. Aroma was fruity, sweet fruit juice, citrus. Taste wheat, more bitter than expected after the aroma was so sweet and fruity. Dry finish.

2.2 Lazy straw color. Mild wheat taste but too hoppy for me. Much better than the big sky moose drool though. This one is nowhere near the gold standard boulevard wheat. Hey Montana, i love ya but stick to the beef jerky game.

2.2 Bottled. Pissy color. Has no aroma. Has a big wheat flavor. Florally hops with a sweet spicy finish.

3.4 Refrigerated 12 oz. aluminum can, March 28, 2015, from slowrunner77, poured into a weizen glass. Hazy golden with medium white head. Aroma is light hops, medium/light body, medium carbonation, and some big-bubble lacing. Taste is light herbal hops. Seems past its prime.

3.5 Pours a clear golden color with a small white head that leaves plenty of lacing around the glass. The aroma is sweet, bready, very malty. The taste is lightly roasted malts, bready, wheat. There is a slight hop kick at the end to round it off.

3.0 355ml bottle. Pours a hazy golden with a small, short lived, white head that laces. Sweet aroma of citrus, wheat and yeast. Sweet citrus flavour with yeast, grass and a slight resiny, bitter, dry, hoppy finish. Light body with a watery texture and soft carbonation. Average.

3.1 Pours a clear straw from a bottle. Wheaty aroma and flavor. Rather light tasting. Good beer.

2.8 Appearance: Clear yellow, some fizzy white head. Aroma: Strong fruit. Mango? Papaya? Taste: Wheat, citrus, good amount of fruit. Dry mouth feel. Bought: France 44, 355 ml, $1.42 Info: 16/9-2015

3.5 From a 12 oz can. Pours a clear pale gold with a creamy white head. Light toast nose. Flavors of lime. Bitter finish. Refreshing summer ale.

3.0 355ml brown bottle. Clear and yellow coloured with a small white cap. Patchy lacing. Aromas of toasty wheat, straw. Taste is bready, wheat, some sweetness, soft citrus, grass notes. Light bitterness in the finish with a trace of malt. Refreshing and light in body, ok hot weather brew, but something I probably won’t revisit after this sixer is gone.

3.3 12oz bottle poured into a Hefeweizen glass. The aroma is sugary sweet with candy fruit notes, and tropical up front, but this settles into more stone fruit and a faint herb hint with a graham cracker note. It pours a brilliant, oily and effervescent pale with a soapy white head that has good retention and somewhat messy, scattered, crystal lacing. The taste is a medium bitter and sweet, although unbalanced. The medium body is slick with a light fizz carbonation, flavored by grain, light lemon citrus, and a light hint of banana. It finishes grainy with a light solvent, and some nectarines that turns to an aftertaste that?s lightly astringent with notes of a light solvent and grains.

2.8 ウイートビール白の飲みやすい感じ

2.8 Bottle. I think this has been dwelling in my fridge way past its ideal drink-by date. So, there’s that. Smell is overly sweet malts, cooked veg, and really sweet fruit. Pretty looking, though with a nice clear dark golden color and decent white head. Taste is out of kilter. Too sweet then a sharp bang of hops. Light hop finish. If I ever run across this fresher, I’ll give it another go

3.4 Refreshing wheat ale. Some mild, grassy characteristics. The aroma of the beer gave me a great first impression of the beer, but it was lacking with flavor in my opinon. Overall, a refreshing mediocre wheat ale.

2.6 Rated based on notes taken 19 April 2013 -- This beer, it’s ok. Not that great overall.

4.0 An excellent wheat ale very drinkable just what I expect from a wheat beer. Pours a nice hazy creamy color. Would recommend.

2.9 12oz from refrigerated bottle into a shaker pint. Moderate pours a pleasant one-finger white head with moderate retention and decent lacing. Golden and clear with moderate carbonation. Nose is fairly weak. Wheaty. Moderate body. Appropriate for style. Taste is very straight forward. Moderate bitterness with a wheat and malty taste. Not too much going on, but an alright hot-day beer, I’d say.

3.4 Clear, golden pour with a frothy, white head. The aroma has wheat and some mild, grassy hops. It has a light body with smooth texture and average carbonation. The taste is slightly sweet with a dry finish.

2.9 Bottle. Aroma of malted wheat, and some citrus. Pours pale straw yellow with a thin white head. A hint of grassy hops on the palate. Medium bodied with high carbonation. Smooth and quite drinkable, though nothing special.

3.0 Not a lot going on. I feel like this is barely more than a blonde ale. A hint of spice and a little wheat. Quite refreshing, which is it’s redeeming factor.

3.4 It’s always oddly rewarding to drink refreshing wheat ales in the cold months, so I couldn’t resist the urge to crack into trout slayer. I must say, in more appropriate weather, Trout Slayer might be a god send. It’s an approachable thirst quencher with a fair amount of hop character. I liked the pale yellow color, the spicy aroma, and the somewhat creamy mouthfeel. In all though, I wished Trout Slayer was headier and more flavorful. Still, this is a sweet, smooth wheat ale. Though it did not slay my trout, it certainly gave it a nice tickle. That has to be the weirdest euphemism I’ve ever given on this site.

2.9 Hazy straw/gold color; Light to medium body; Aroma of wheat, floral, citrus, & some spice; Flavor of slight sweet malt, wheat, hops, and citrus; Ok wheat ale.

2.5 Meh. Not my most favorite kind of beer to begin with. Great brewery from Montana though.

2.8 The color of this beer is a very clear brownish orange with a medium white head that fades quickly. The aroma blends wheat, yeast, earthy hops, and orange peel, and the taste is mildly sour, slightly bitter, and a touch sweet with a purely sour aftertaste. The palate fuses a light body, slick and thin texture, and a soft carbonation.

4.0 Pretty drinkable, has some hops on the nose but mostly get the wheat in the taste. Having this again and am really liking the clean seas able wheat beer.

3.2 Glass, 16 ounces, draught, trip to Chicago, savoured on September 29 2014; eye: hazy, tiny sheet of off-white head, light lacing; nose: hops, fruity, grain, citrusy; mouth: hops, fruit, grain, citrusy, semi-dry finale in hops with fruity presence, medium body, good carbonation, mildly bitter, slightly sweet, lightly harsh texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Verre, 16 onces, en fût, voyage à Chicago, savourée le 25 septembre 2014; œil : trouble, petite couverture de mousse blanc cassé, légère dentelle; nez : houblon, fruitée, grain, citrique; bouche : houblon, fruitée, grain, citrique, finale semi-sèche en houblon avec présence fruitée, corps moyen, bonne carbonatation, moyennement amère, très légèrement sucrée, texture légèrement râpeuse; en résumé : bien

2.9 It poured a clear golden color with a white head. The aroma was light and wheaty. The taste was similar to the aroma with crispiness, wheat and a tad earthy.