Huckleberry beer!?!?!

I had heard of this phenomena last September when I was on a whirlwind weekend in Fernie. The Fernie Brewing Co was talked about by my friends before I arrived and I was hoping to swing by and check it out. Alas, the craziness of prepping for and coordinating a wedding kinda ate up all our time and I never did stop in to taste their beer.

That's why I was so stoked last week to see the the Strath Liquor Store had some bottles in. The beer is called What the Huck and it's a wheat beer (a favorite style of mine) infused with huckleberries.

I have fond memories of summers spend camping around Cowichan Lake. I'd often walk through the woods during the day - within view of the rents, being 7 or 8 - and pick huckleberries. I'd pretend that I was lost in the woods and I was picking them to survive on. If you're familiar with them, you know they are a teeny tiny berry and in order to live off them, you'd be picking for hours.

I cracked open the bottle tonight and I'm super stoked on this beer. Here's hoping they have it in stock often as I can see it being a regular bevy this summer!





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