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Sam Adams Light 2.54 970

Sam Adams Light

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bottled
common

on tap
common

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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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 daknole (3002), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/103/516/20
Mar 18, 2008  
Ok lets make sure we define this beer vs other lights instead of other full beers. This is about a good a light beer as there is. Compared to any other light it kicks butt.


 esjaygee (1578), Oak Creek, Wisconsin, USA
1.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/52/101/53/20
Mar 16, 2008  
12oz bottle. Clear orange/amber thin dissipating head. Malty aroma with hints of dough and caramel. Tastes very thin, but there’s a slight tongue prickling sensation that helps separate it from tap water. Very mild malty finish that accentuates nothing in terms of taste. Also strange finish coagulates at the back of my mouth, yuck.


 kurtkosher (144), USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/57/104/514/20
Mar 16, 2008  
definitely my favorite light beer, but then again i love sam adams all around i cant get enough and probably never will


 vmilaxer29 (144), Virginia, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/59/20
Mar 15, 2008  
This is definitily much better than your average american light lager. Actually has a good strong taste that could make you think its a regular lager. Give it a try.


Outchillen (29), Pennsylvania, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/56/103/511/20
Mar 10, 2008  
Has some taste for a light beer, a toned down version of the regular lager. Still overrated


 SpudClampDawg (1027), Jasper, Indiana, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/513/20
Mar 7, 2008  
12oz bottle: In my new search to find low(er) carb beers that actually have some taste I bought a sixer of this. Pours a brilliant amber with a finger thick foamy head. The nose is subtle, noting light caramel and honey. This has nice mouthfeel for a light beer. The body finds a nice balance of crisp malt and a touch of grassy hops. I like this because it has enough flavor to make me want another. Quality ingredients were used and it shows.


 colts9016 (198), Idaho, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/510/20
Feb 29, 2008  
The pour is light yellow. The nose is a malt and yeast. The taste is a lighter body version of the Boston lager. It is one of the few fuller body light beer that I have tried and enjoyed.


 blutt59 (2167), Dallas, Texas, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/511/20
Feb 22, 2008  
12 oz. bottle, typical light beer but better than most, I like how they distance this from the rest of their line by calling this Sam Adams instead



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