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Sam Adams Light

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bottled
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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 rodneykm (109), Westminster, South Carolina, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/52/103/56/20
Aug 18, 2007  
Pretty strong flavor for a lite beer. I plan on having a few more of these and then coming back and re-rating


 Precept53 (113), West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/56/102/514/20
Aug 18, 2007  
Best light beer I have ever had, and possibly best light beer on the market. Nice clean finish, some malt and caramel notes. Not as much hop as the regular boston lager.


 Gregis (1132), Shawnee, Kansas, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/511/20
Aug 16, 2007  
Pours a clear amber with a fairly decent off-white head; the prettiest "light" beer I’ve seen. Caramel malts on the nose with a fruity hop backing. Light and thin with lively tongue-covering carbonation and a dry, lightly bitter finish. Tastes a lot like an "amber light": caramel malts, faint metallic note, tongue scrubbing carbonation, finishing with a lightly bitter aftertaste. While pretty thin and muted in its flavor, this is easily the best light beer I’ve had.


 jlruthven (137), Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Aug 16, 2007  
This is just fine if you know what you’re in for. Tastes just like regular Sam Adams, but a little thinner, tastes fainter. By far the best "light" beer out there.


 cheapdark (2024), Monacatootha, Pennsylvania, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/55/103/511/20
Aug 14, 2007  
Conventional 12 oz brown beer bottle. Aroma is wet old raggish once I pop the lid. Clears in the glass to something a bit sweeter. Surprisingly darker yellow for a ’light’ beer, come on guys. Taste is rather laid back but there appears to be an industrial finish on the center back of the palate with each swig. Well controlled during the session, easy going and easy to enjoy. As good as many pale lagers. Certainly one of the more enjoyable premium lagers I’ve tasted. Lacks the medicinal light bitterness so prevalent with other premium lagers. This must be in the wrong style.


 BigBeer45 (697), Troy, Michigan, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/53/103/510/20
Aug 8, 2007  
Pours copper gold with faint amber edges and a white head that faded to a small cap, some sweet and malt fragrances, a brown grass aroma, malt taste with some hop bite, not bad for a light beer, has a dry finish.


 prosqtor (408), Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/58/103/512/20
Aug 6, 2007  
This is probably the best light beer ever made. Hardly any aroma, but after that you hardly realize it’s a light beer. Nice taste, nicer color (amber!), and a clean finish. Quite nice.


 JonnyC22 (164), Huntsville, Alabama, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/511/20
Aug 5, 2007  
I didn’t find too much "light" about this beer. It’s got a pretty good flavor and texture, pours well. As it says in the description, it’s not a lighter version of the lager...or ale. Wish I had known that before I bought it.



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