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River Valley Golden Lager
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- Needs more ratings
- Avg:
- 2.94 | pDev: 32.31%
- Reviews:
- 5
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 19, 2020
- Added:
- Jul 26, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by nbarriga:
Reviewed by nbarriga from Canada (AB)
2.82/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
2.82/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
A: Clean, yellow. Thin white head that vanishes quickly
S: Very slight malt smell.
T: Clean, light, slightly malty.
MF: Light bodied, high carbonation.
O: Nice refreshing lager. Very drinkable for the price (~$1 dollar per can in Edmonton). Better than the Buds/Coors/Millers of the world, but could use a bit more body and bitterness.
Jul 26, 2014S: Very slight malt smell.
T: Clean, light, slightly malty.
MF: Light bodied, high carbonation.
O: Nice refreshing lager. Very drinkable for the price (~$1 dollar per can in Edmonton). Better than the Buds/Coors/Millers of the world, but could use a bit more body and bitterness.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by IceChuggington from Canada (AB)
1.54/5 rDev -47.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 1.75
1.54/5 rDev -47.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 1.75
There is a reason this is the cheapest beer in Alberta, and that's why I buy it all the time. It is excellent for shotguns because you cannot taste the beer as much, but holy cow it leaves a strong aftertaste. I would rate it 3 Smirnoff Ices/10.
Jun 19, 2020Reviewed by Doc9911 from Canada (AB)
4.78/5 rDev +62.6%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
4.78/5 rDev +62.6%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Disregard the 2-3 ratings. Although not a connoisseur’s brew, it is a great beer at a great price and made in Canada. Fresh, clean, and super cheap! I challenge you to find a better value for a beer that is refreshing without a lingering taste. Easy in...easy out!
Jun 22, 2019Reviewed by Nikki_66 from Canada (AB)
3.86/5 rDev +31.3%
look: 1.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.5
3.86/5 rDev +31.3%
look: 1.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.5
I generally drink kokanee or Budweiser. I was going camping with a large group of people so I bought this golden lager. That was over a year ago and I still buy it. My only complaint is that they don't make cases in larger sizes. It does not leave an after taste like some do.
Mar 26, 2018Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.46/5 rDev -16.3%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.46/5 rDev -16.3%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
355ml single can, one of those impulse cash register purchases when out getting my Irish Whiskey restocking for Christmas done.
This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with one chubby finger of puffy, loosely foamy and mostly just fizzy off-white head, which leaves but a few shy blobs of sinking islet lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of grainy corn-bred 'malt', a bit of rubbing alcohol, well overripe pears and cheap apples, acrid yeast, and a weird sense of malt liquor booziness - swuh? The taste is bready, grainy pale and corny malt, a still unpleasantly heady dead yeastiness, muddled spoiled pome fruit, and some hard to shake off phenolic plastic notes.
The carbonation is actually tactile and involved with its somewhat prickly frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, but too tainted with a pithy clamminess to make me care a whit further. It finishes sweet, kind of sickly, and teeth-scraping as ever was.
Yeah, my post lawn-mowing (or show-shoveling at the moment) experience is much needier than most (corner lot), so this shit doesn't suffice even for that forgiving milieu. Overall, this is just the bottom of the barrel stuff that Big Rock allows to be rebranded for the buck-a-beer segment of our province's retail environment.
Nov 26, 2015This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with one chubby finger of puffy, loosely foamy and mostly just fizzy off-white head, which leaves but a few shy blobs of sinking islet lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of grainy corn-bred 'malt', a bit of rubbing alcohol, well overripe pears and cheap apples, acrid yeast, and a weird sense of malt liquor booziness - swuh? The taste is bready, grainy pale and corny malt, a still unpleasantly heady dead yeastiness, muddled spoiled pome fruit, and some hard to shake off phenolic plastic notes.
The carbonation is actually tactile and involved with its somewhat prickly frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, but too tainted with a pithy clamminess to make me care a whit further. It finishes sweet, kind of sickly, and teeth-scraping as ever was.
Yeah, my post lawn-mowing (or show-shoveling at the moment) experience is much needier than most (corner lot), so this shit doesn't suffice even for that forgiving milieu. Overall, this is just the bottom of the barrel stuff that Big Rock allows to be rebranded for the buck-a-beer segment of our province's retail environment.
Rated by shawn429 from Canada (AB)
2.09/5 rDev -28.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2
2.09/5 rDev -28.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2
Starts smooth then ends bitter. Leaves a bad aftertaste.
Jul 09, 2015Rated by Shadman from Canada (AB)
2.94/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.94/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Is what it is.
Having said that it's a good mow the lawn, shore fishing beer that isn't all that bad.
Dec 27, 2014Having said that it's a good mow the lawn, shore fishing beer that isn't all that bad.
River Valley Golden Lager from Big Rock Brewery
Beer rating:
2.94 out of
5 with
8 ratings
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