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Sam Adams Light 2.54 970

Sam Adams Light

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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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 Swalden28 (1512), McKinney, Texas, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Dec 16, 2007    Updated: Sep 7, 2009
Bottle from Kegs & Barrels in Plano, TX. One of the better light beers I have has. Pours a nice looking caramel color with nice off-white head. Aroma of light caramel, toast, a little nut and very light hops. Flavor is light caramel and very light hop flavor to balance. Mouth feel is light body but not very watery and high carbonation. Overall, it’s not bad at all.....


 Angeloregon (2025), Portland, Oregon, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/56/103/512/20
Dec 11, 2007    Updated: Aug 16, 2008
From a 12oz. bottle--Poured a dull wheat straw color with an average white head. Bready nose and a hint of spicy hops. Tasted like a macro brew but without the adjuncts. Best light beer yet. I can’t believe they also make Utopias and the Triple Bock!


BeNobleDark (59), Allendale, Michigan, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/510/20
Dec 6, 2007  
This is a fantastic light beer. The body is highly carbonated, allowing bubbles to dance upon your tongue as you taste subtle hops, malt, and a crisp alcohol kick.


mcclenw (36), Stevenson, Alabama, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/510/20
Nov 26, 2007  
Bottle. By far the best light beer out there. Pours a light amber color. Aroma is that of a weaker Boston Lager. Flavor is slight caramel. All in all my favorite light beer.


 porterhouse (1158), Alna, Maine, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/54/102/59/20
Nov 26, 2007  
(Bottle (best before 11/07) from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/maine/augusta/l target=blank>Lou’s Beverage Barn) Pours clear light amber with one finger of biege head. Nose is rather weak but has faint hints of egg and vanilla and some hops. Mouthfeel is blunt and cardboard-like, quite prickly, thin. Flavor is rather wooden and artificial but has some caramel/vanilla/egg hints but really not much. Even though this is a light beer I expected a little more from Sammy. Premium lager?


 bhensonb (4341), Woodland, California, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/54/103/59/20
Nov 24, 2007  
Pours well. A nice amber color and a decent beige head. Aroma sort of a standard macro with a bit of caramel - this is a big improvement. There’s some noble hop to go with the caramel. Pretty thin in body, and the carbonation is fizzy. The flavor is caramel, not all that light either, and the expected hop. It is almost crisp, and pretty clean. At 128 calories this is way more flavorful than should be possible. More hop and this could really be something.


scooterling (21), S. San Francisco, California, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/56/103/510/20
Nov 23, 2007  
I want to like this. I really do. Perhaps it was my move to the West Coast that has me craving hoppy beers now. Lighter than Sam Adams, but not really a true light diet beer. Amstel is still my choice.


 jsh12bama (338), Alabama, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/103/57/20
Nov 23, 2007  
Basic light beer with a little more taste than the standard macro crap. Decent beer but just not the style I prefer.



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