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Sam Adams Light 2.54 971

Sam Adams Light

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15
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bottled
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
9712.53/5.02.54/5.04.05%44.1Lager glass
Commercial Description:
It took 2 years of brewing, tasting and testing to come up with the final recipe for Sam Adams Light. We focused on brewing a flavorful, high quality beer with a light-bodied taste and fewer calories. Sam Adams Light is a unique beer, it's not a lighter version of our Boston Lager. Sam Adams Light is the only light beer that uses no adjuncts and a traditional brewing process to ensure a balance of flavor and light-bodied taste. No other domestic light beer uses only the four classic ingredients of beer: pure water, lager yeast, Noble hops and barley malt. The quality ingredients that make up Sam Adams Light include two-row malt and some of the most expensive hops in the world, Spalt Spalter Noble hops. At 128 calories, Sam Adams Light features a clean finish and no aftertaste.
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 smcolw (373), Wayland, Massachusetts, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/53/102/55/20
Apr 11, 2009  
Pale malt aroma with a touch of hop; very mild aroma Crystal clear, light amber in color with a mediocre fast-fading head Thin and relatively flavorless, it’s difficult to detect any real beer-like flavors. With Light Beers dominating the conventional beer market, it’s understandable that Boston Beer Co. would want to enter into the fray. And the like nationals, this beer is watered down, bland and non-descript. It will probably sell to the masses nicely. Personally, I preferred Sam’s old Lightship.


 USCBeerMan (109), Columbia, South Carolina, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/102/58/20
Apr 9, 2009  
one of the best light beers. not much taste. a golden amber color with not much aroma or flavor.


IMTank (13), , Ohio, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Apr 8, 2009  
What can you say? Not bad at all for those of us looking for a calorie conscious beer with extraordinary taste and aroma.


 shawnm213 (997), South Bend, Indiana, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/510/20
Mar 30, 2009  
for a light lager, could be worse. clean finish with no aftertatste. good beer if you are binging on a diet?


 jcr (1190), Jasper, Indiana, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/103/511/20
Mar 27, 2009  
Bottle. Clear amber body. Small off-white head that disappears. The aroma is grain with notes of husks and caramel. There is a hint of floral hops. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body with a watery texture and fizzy carbonation. I had hoped for the beer to have more of the Boston Lager profile, but it doesn’t have near the hop flavor. Still better than a lot of light beer alternatives because it has some flavor.


 fidelis83 (729), Clinton, Iowa, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/103/510/20
Mar 20, 2009  
Pours dark amber with a tall chunky off white head that has good retention. Aroma is caramel, noble hops, grass and a hint of toasted nuts. Flavor is caramel, toasted nuts, bread crust, grainy malt, planty hops and a little butterscotch. Finish is planty and slightly bitter. Finish is very clean, noble hops and a bit of toast. Not a bad beer really not off tastes or anything, just kind of boring. Definitely the best beer I have had that is labeled as "light".


jmwhite1204 (1), USA
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3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/58/103/517/20
Mar 15, 2009  
This is probably my favorite "light" beer. It’s a little watered down, but has a lot more taste than most of the other light beers. Pours amber with a rich flavor and a light east kent golding hops and crystal malt flavor.


pulykamell (4), USA
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3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/514/20
Mar 9, 2009  
For the style, I think this is a remarkable beer. It’s the only light beer I can stomach. Overall, though, it’s middle-of-the-road. So 5/5 for "Light Lager", but 1/5 for Lagers in general, so I’m giving it a 3.



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