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Big Rig Brewery
- From:
- Big Rig Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Light Lager
- ABV:
- 4.7%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.52 | pDev: 4.83%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 12, 2025
- Added:
- Oct 06, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Brewed to be light, easy-drinking and refreshing. This Mexican lager pours with a dense and lasting pure-white foam, and is a bright straw yellow. Hints of malt, corn, flowers and hay can be pulled from the aroma, while the flavour adds notes of crackers and sweet grain. Light in body with a soft carbonation, and a mild dry bitterness. Best enjoyed with a plate full of tacos!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by talisen-crw from Canada (ON)
3.75/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
At my lady Pamela's house; canned and chilled, 473mL in a pint glass. From the University Ave. West LCBO in nearby downtown Windsor. Packaged May 24, 2024. My fourth beer from the Kanata, Ontario brewery, and third for 2025. With Gracie the cat...
Sep 12, 2025
Rated by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.5/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Sept 22 2023
Sep 22, 2023
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.46/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.46/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
473 mL can from the LCBO; dated May 17 2023 and served slightly chilled.
Pours a clear straw yellow colour, generating nearly two fingers of smooth, foamy white head that falls off over the course of the next several minutes. It drops a full coat of even lace as it recedes, with a thin collar and filmy cap living on - looks good so far. Appropriately corny aroma for the style: plain white tortilla, very lightly grainy pale malts and corn husks. Dull, but it does smell more clean and/or wholesome than your average light lager.
The flavours are underwhelming, but within acceptable tolerance for a light Mexican lager. Approachable blend of sweet corn chips, plain tortilla and grainy pale malts, with little else of interest going on. Finishes with a touch of corn husk, leading into a faintly grainy aftertaste. Light in body, with moderately lively carbonation that feels frothy on the palate; the mouthfeel is crisp and a little prickly. Eminently quaffable, with drinkability being this beer's only stand-out quality.
Final Grade: 3.46, a B-. I'll admit it... I don't get the recent Mexican lager fad. It seems mostly to be an attempt to piggyback off of Modelo's continued popularity. It's also fair to point out that adjunct lagers have become a blind spot for me over the last decade, as I haven't really bought them regularly since back when Lakeport and Upper Canada were still popular in this province. (Do they even make those beers anymore?) Big Rig's Hola! is one of those lagers that I doubt I'll ever buy again, but would drink politely if it were being offered. It's worth a look if you enjoy Mexican lagers.
Jul 18, 2023Pours a clear straw yellow colour, generating nearly two fingers of smooth, foamy white head that falls off over the course of the next several minutes. It drops a full coat of even lace as it recedes, with a thin collar and filmy cap living on - looks good so far. Appropriately corny aroma for the style: plain white tortilla, very lightly grainy pale malts and corn husks. Dull, but it does smell more clean and/or wholesome than your average light lager.
The flavours are underwhelming, but within acceptable tolerance for a light Mexican lager. Approachable blend of sweet corn chips, plain tortilla and grainy pale malts, with little else of interest going on. Finishes with a touch of corn husk, leading into a faintly grainy aftertaste. Light in body, with moderately lively carbonation that feels frothy on the palate; the mouthfeel is crisp and a little prickly. Eminently quaffable, with drinkability being this beer's only stand-out quality.
Final Grade: 3.46, a B-. I'll admit it... I don't get the recent Mexican lager fad. It seems mostly to be an attempt to piggyback off of Modelo's continued popularity. It's also fair to point out that adjunct lagers have become a blind spot for me over the last decade, as I haven't really bought them regularly since back when Lakeport and Upper Canada were still popular in this province. (Do they even make those beers anymore?) Big Rig's Hola! is one of those lagers that I doubt I'll ever buy again, but would drink politely if it were being offered. It's worth a look if you enjoy Mexican lagers.
Reviewed by TheHammer from Canada (ON)
3.66/5 rDev +4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.66/5 rDev +4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
From notes from the Craft Beer Market in Ottawa. Labelled there just as Hola! but I am uncertain if this beer is also their Chico Mexican Lager or Hola Luz De Sol Cervesa that other sites indicate might be the name.
Appearance: Produced solid lace with a finger of head that showed modest retained and a clear brassy body with mild carbonation.
Smell: Mixed grains, specifically Barley, Rye and Starchy corn, not the sweet kind. Great potency, especially for a 4.5 ABV. Warming didn't help it's case.
Taste: Mixed bread grain of which the starchy maize like taste seems to power through just before some fairly generic hops clean things up.
Mouthfeel: Incredibly clean with only a slight mixed grain aftertaste and great transitioning, albeit something of a short journey. Carbonation seems decent as well.
Drinkability: Yes, it is refreshing and has that nice clean crispness to it, and is certainly not attempting to disguise itself as something other then a light beer, it's got character.
Final Thoughts: I'm honestly reminded of a beer of long ago that Lakeport used to brew, called Brava. Long before the company was bought out, and even before they tweaked the recipe when they went from an orange label to a black and yellow one. Make no mistake, this is a guzzler of a beer, but it has character in the grain that I like.
Oct 06, 2021Appearance: Produced solid lace with a finger of head that showed modest retained and a clear brassy body with mild carbonation.
Smell: Mixed grains, specifically Barley, Rye and Starchy corn, not the sweet kind. Great potency, especially for a 4.5 ABV. Warming didn't help it's case.
Taste: Mixed bread grain of which the starchy maize like taste seems to power through just before some fairly generic hops clean things up.
Mouthfeel: Incredibly clean with only a slight mixed grain aftertaste and great transitioning, albeit something of a short journey. Carbonation seems decent as well.
Drinkability: Yes, it is refreshing and has that nice clean crispness to it, and is certainly not attempting to disguise itself as something other then a light beer, it's got character.
Final Thoughts: I'm honestly reminded of a beer of long ago that Lakeport used to brew, called Brava. Long before the company was bought out, and even before they tweaked the recipe when they went from an orange label to a black and yellow one. Make no mistake, this is a guzzler of a beer, but it has character in the grain that I like.
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