Green Valley Brewing Wild Hop Lager

Bottle. Pours clear light amber with a foamy white head. Aroma is grainy malt, with some grassy hops. Flavor is about the same, though slightly thin. This is a pretty respectable beer. Honestly I think this would be rated higher if it were by a brewer with more cachet.

I knew it... I knew it... I knew it... A-B repackaged blarb. Actually pours semi-decent, with a woody amber hue and a diminishing head, leaving medium webbed lace. The nose is of semi-hops, some sulfur, and corn.... duh. There tries to be a hop contingency within these thin-palate malts, but the corn just shows through like the swill it is. "One batch at a time" my butt.... Yeah, but a batch is 150 gallons at a time. Just goes to show that gobbling up microbreweries and repackaging your macro swine isn’t going to earn you any greater points... I challenge any big brewer to prove me wrong. (WAY overpriced, as the store had the gall to have this setting right beside of Chimay Bleue.)

In the bottle at the HyVee Oktoberfest beer tasting in Council Bluffs. Light clear amber in color with a poofy white head that recedes rapidly. Is this beer contaminated? It smells like butt! Huge sulfur aroma. Otherwise, boring and watery. Finishes with a very mild suggestion of green hops, but not so much.

Poured from bottle. Aroma of rye, but faint. Big bubbles rise from the bottom and form a very coarse head. Not pretty. Tastes OK, rye/malt flavor. Hops not too much of a factor here. Reminds me of your run-of-the-mill N/A. Improved a bit at finish as bubbles subsided. Forgettable.

Although the aroma is very good, the flavor is a bit thin. I like Hoppy beers, but this does not live up to it’s label.

Dark golden color with a smallish off-white head. Lightly floral hops with a heavy malt and grain aroma, somewhat like a heavy euro strong or decent malt liquor. Sweet floral hops mix with sweet malt and touch of corn in the flavors. Fairly full in feel, yet some watery parts. A sweeter, heavier lager.

Golden color. Again, minor hops, malt , sugar, citrus and a hint of caramel. Tastes the same but more water down. What a joke with these beers from AB. Yuck! The pale ale is better that this. Where are the Wild Hops???

Copper color, and a thin, barely-lacing head. Aroma was weak, but pleasant. Mild, hop flavor, with a grassy aftertaste. Refreshing, actually. Certainly one of the better A-B products I’ve had, and I’ll give them a little extra credit for making it organic.