Light Me Up Lager
Hop Valley Brewing Company
- From:
- Hop Valley Brewing Company
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- American Adjunct Lager
Ranked #117 - ABV:
- 3.6%
- Score:
- 75
Ranked #38,559 - Avg:
- 3.09 | pDev: 25.24%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 19
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 15, 2025
- Added:
- May 03, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
75
Okay
75
Okay
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Rated by CoasterRider from Washington
3.35/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.35/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Don't remember anything about this beer may have had it on tap somewhere and a hair below average rating. 13 IBUs
Mar 15, 2025
Reviewed by spamtrapmail from Oregon
2.05/5 rDev -33.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
2.05/5 rDev -33.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
I don't often find a beer I don't like. This is one of them. It doesn't taste like a lager and it doesn't taste good at all either. The flavor is more like a pilsner crossed with an IPA. What's perplexing is how they made it taste bad. It's like there's a drop of skunk juice in there. I can drink Rainier or Miller High Life or even Budweiser but not this stuff.
Jun 06, 2018
Reviewed by brenn79 from Idaho
3.1/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.1/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
16 oz can- Pours lightly hazy golden with a medium white head that reduces leaving a blanket. Aroma is sweet, light spicy hops, pretty subdued. The taste is sweet, vomit, off, i like the dry finish, not much else.
Apr 11, 2018
Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.75/5 rDev +21.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +21.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Draft at Fort Street Station. I'll be up front, I like this, a lot. I see some of the other reviews, but I think it's pretty all right. But I like lagers. Clear, bright golden, small fading head. Faint grainy aroma, corn , sweet. Taste is the same, no vegetal notes, clean and bready. Absolutely delicious.
Dec 30, 2017
Reviewed by safaricook from Netherlands
3.04/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.04/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
This is not a good lager, it is hazy, citrusy, creamed corn even, it neither excells in malt nor hops, it is a bit watery. In Bavaria and Austria the smallest brewpubs and biggest industries brew better lagers.
Feb 05, 2017
Reviewed by DerAtomsmasher from Washington
2.5/5 rDev -19.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2
2.5/5 rDev -19.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2
Man, who cares?
If you're going to go to the effort of brewing and canning a lager, why wouldn't you try & make it taste differently - as in, like anything - than Coor's.
Stick with your Session Lager, boys.
Nov 27, 2016If you're going to go to the effort of brewing and canning a lager, why wouldn't you try & make it taste differently - as in, like anything - than Coor's.
Stick with your Session Lager, boys.
Reviewed by Spikester from Oregon
3.26/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.26/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Clear pale gold with one finger of two minute white head. No lace.
Smell is grain yeast corn chips and some grassy hops.
Taste is grains corn chips bread crust malt and some grassy hops bring up the rear.
Mouthfeel is medium with alright carbonation. Finish is moderately sweet.
Overall I wonder why Hop Valley wanted to brew a beer that is not any better than a macro beer?
Sep 14, 2016Smell is grain yeast corn chips and some grassy hops.
Taste is grains corn chips bread crust malt and some grassy hops bring up the rear.
Mouthfeel is medium with alright carbonation. Finish is moderately sweet.
Overall I wonder why Hop Valley wanted to brew a beer that is not any better than a macro beer?
Reviewed by DefenCorps from Oregon
3.31/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.31/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Can from TJ's.
Pours a clear light yellow with a dense, off-white head with good retention and lacing, this looks solid. The nose is decent. Clean, refreshing, mildly grainy, mildly citrusy (and i mean MILDLY), this is clean and inoffensive on the nose. The palate opens mildly rice-like and grainy with a light lemon character. Drying and clean on the finish, this is inoffensive and refreshing and would actually hit the spot on a really hot and humid day. Decent.
Aug 29, 2016Pours a clear light yellow with a dense, off-white head with good retention and lacing, this looks solid. The nose is decent. Clean, refreshing, mildly grainy, mildly citrusy (and i mean MILDLY), this is clean and inoffensive on the nose. The palate opens mildly rice-like and grainy with a light lemon character. Drying and clean on the finish, this is inoffensive and refreshing and would actually hit the spot on a really hot and humid day. Decent.
Reviewed by alexrichman from Oregon
3.38/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.38/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
L) Pours brilliantly clear with a heavy gold hue. A fluffy 1 finger head rises to the top of the glass and slowly subsides leaving a touch of lacing on the glass and the top of the beer. Pretty nice.
S) Pretty subdued, some bread, caramel, maybe a touch of earth
T) Caramel, some pear/fruity esters, a nice toasty bread flavors, a bit of "adjunct" flavor from the rice. A bit of bitterness to round things out at the end. Pretty solid.
F) Dry, fairly clean,not overly thin, a bit prickly from the carbonation. A good, drinkable beer.
O) A solid lager beer, although I would have preferred something with a bit more hop presence considering it's coming from Hop Valley. Should be a nice, quaff-able brew for this summer.
Apr 14, 2016S) Pretty subdued, some bread, caramel, maybe a touch of earth
T) Caramel, some pear/fruity esters, a nice toasty bread flavors, a bit of "adjunct" flavor from the rice. A bit of bitterness to round things out at the end. Pretty solid.
F) Dry, fairly clean,not overly thin, a bit prickly from the carbonation. A good, drinkable beer.
O) A solid lager beer, although I would have preferred something with a bit more hop presence considering it's coming from Hop Valley. Should be a nice, quaff-able brew for this summer.
Reviewed by VelvetExtract from Massachusetts
2.9/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
2.9/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Can. Poured light and fizzy. A really bland aroma. Light lager yeast. A bit too sweet. Flavor is a bit adjunct and pale malt with some yeastiness. Very light bodied. Sorta bland and boring. I shouldn't have expected much else, though.
Mar 12, 2016
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