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Sam Adams Light

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15
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bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
9702.53/5.02.54/5.04.05%44Lager 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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 hoplover (166), Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/56/104/510/20
Sep 5, 2008  
For a light beer this is one of the best. Compared to the other sIv’e had it’s way better. But I’m not into light beers.


 Beerman6686 (1287), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/59/20
Sep 3, 2008  
Pours a light light amber color with a white head. Aroma was very subdued, mainly just malts and maybe some caramel. Flavor was basically just watered down Boston Lager, no other way to explain it.


 SuIIy (1453), Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Aug 29, 2008  
One of the better "light" beers. Pours a light caramel color with a thin fizzy head. Nose is light hops, some caramel notes, very light and airy. Flavor is similar with a nice fizzyness.


 Imaena (259), Portland, Maine, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/512/20
Aug 28, 2008  
Bottle 08’. For a light lager this is quite well done. If you are a big beer fanatic then obviously this wont be as flavorful or complex as you might want. Grainy, light bodied, light hops, a drink out of the bottle type of beer.


 ketchepillar (480), Viña del Mar, Chile
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/513/20
Aug 25, 2008  
Really not too bad. I definitely prefer this to the Boston Lager. Very clean, no brewing flaws. Even some hops to speak of.


 GAManiac (1173), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/103/510/20
Aug 18, 2008  
Pours a light golden amber with a one-finger white head that showed great life with lots of bubbles rushing to the top. This looks great compared to most light beers. Nothing too special in the smell with wheat, light hops and some other grainy smells. The taste was a fuller version of the aroma with some decent wheat and light hop flavors. The mouthfeel is crisp and clean and not very watery at all. This is one of the better light lagers I’ve tasted and very drinkable.


 arventresca (341), Greenville, North Carolina, USA
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/54/102/57/20
Aug 15, 2008  
Bottle. Pours amber, and smells of hops. However, the look is deceiving because it stands out none from any other light beer in taste. It almost reminds me of a fake Sam Adams.


 NomDeBeer (400), Maryland, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/511/20
Aug 11, 2008  
Hands down the best light beer I’ve ever had. But I think we all know that’s not saying much. Still for what it is, it’s not bad. Not very flavorful of full-bodied but it’s still very drinkable. And at least it doesn’t have a heavy corn flavor.



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