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Sam Adams Light

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bottled
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
9682.54/5.02.54/5.04.05%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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 dpjuart (670), Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/59/20
May 21, 2007  
Bottle. Dark Golden Lager. Small frothy head that disappated quickly. Prevelant carmel malt taste. Pretty malty. Decent hop finish, not very strong though. OK light beer.


 riversideAK (2727), Shoreline, Washington, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/53/102/55/20
May 16, 2007  
Slightly sweet caramel malty. Some adjunct grain as well. Pours amber with a small white head. Flavor is semi sweet caramel malt, sweet adjunct flavor, water, and a mild finishing crispness. Extremely watery and light. Unimpressive, but I guess it could be worse.


 polomagnifico (534), Saginaw, Michigan, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/55/103/511/20
May 10, 2007  
12oz bottle. Aroma is weak at first (since it was served super cold) but has a little malt and hops in there. Small, mostly diminishing, frothy off-white head that left a fair lace. Normal clarity with a body that is light/medium yellow/amber. Flavor kind of sweet and bitter with a short finish. Lively, watery palate. The best light beer I’ve ever had and I do love Sam Adams but it’s kind of a tease. I want more of that flavor, aroma and everything else but it’s a light beer so it won’t put out. I just don’t get light beers.


 AOF (282), Naperville, Illinois, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/102/511/20
May 8, 2007  
Deep amber in color, little to no head when poured from the bottle. Aromas are soft and sweet, some maltiness but little else. Light in body and somewhat watery. Way better than all other light beers, but not very good in general.


 alobar (1017), Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
May 6, 2007  
Pours a clear amber color with no head. Mild aroma of hops and yeast. Taste is mild hops, bread, malts... Best light beer I’ve ever had. That’s not saying much.


 bbp182 (255), Levittown, Pennsylvania, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/59/104/519/20
May 2, 2007  
I’ve had Miller and Coors lite, and they suck, no flavor, yellow, crappy. But sam adams light is the best, i repeat, THE BEST light beer ever. For a light beer, it’s the best I’ve had.


 natejgood (189), Denver, Colorado, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/55/103/511/20
Apr 27, 2007  
This beer pours a light golden color and had a light white head that dissipates quickly. It seems to have a lot of carbination coming up from the bottom of the glass. It smells of mildly sweet hay. I can’t say I’m overyly impressed with the flavor of this beer. It certainly has more taste that most light American beers, but it is no where neer as good as the Boston Lager. It has a bit of a spicy flavor, but it is very light. Maybe the best way to describe it would be a bud light with a little more flavor. For a light beer this is fine, but nothing special. Compared to a full bodied beer and most of the other Sam Adams beers this is a little disappointing.


 BrewDad (2370), Olympia, Washington, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/57/104/513/20
Apr 25, 2007  
12oz Bottle
A golden color with a nice head. This has a malty taste with a very light hoppy flavor. Very light in hops which makes this much like a light lager. It is crisp as an ale should be so this is not too bad. Very tasty and very good. I will have another.



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