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Sam Adams Light

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bottled
common

on tap
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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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Diabl078 (2), USA
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5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Dec 26, 2006  
Great Light beer, smooth and drinkable....better than sammy original in my opinion


marksahara (79), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/56/103/512/20
Dec 25, 2006  
12 oz. bottle. About the only "Light" beer I can and will drink. Definitely not a watered down version of Sam Boston Lager. In fact, I think the taste in this is better than the Boston Lager. Pours a clear golden amber with little crown. Aroma is light, full of malt and practically no hops. Flavour is smooth all the way through to the finish. You can taste the malt and hops, but there seems to be little bitterness, so the malt appears to dominate the beer. Palate is more thin- than medium-bodied with moderate carbonation. This is a great beer for tyros and those who don’t like the taste and bitterness of stronger beers. Definitely a lawnmower beer for me, but the best "light" I’ve ever tasted.


 17thfloor (1502), Chicago, Illinois, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/512/20
Dec 25, 2006    Updated: Jan 28, 2009
Great for a light beer. Yes its sweet, but so is a regular sam adams? Good bar choice [Yikes.. this needs rerating]


ibrew2 (20), Illinois, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/55/102/58/20
Dec 18, 2006  
12oz. Bottle. Not bad for a light beer much like a regular Sam Adams but more watered down.Not a first choice but would drink again if thats all im offered


 Headbanger (1598), Aurora, Illinois, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/103/59/20
Dec 11, 2006  
12oz bottle-Aroma of malts and hops on a light honey amber body with no head. Taste of nothing on the front end but a little malt on the back end, but something tastes a little funky.


 unibaren (145), 8000 Ĺrhus C, Denmark
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/53/102/58/20
Dec 6, 2006  
(Too) Caramel sweet malty nose. Nearly no head. Honney golden colour. No carbonation. The beer is unbalanced and way to malt-sweet for me - especially since the sweetness has some kind of unpleasent taste to it. It might not be as bad as some light beers but it is way worse then most "real" beers.


 SuperDave70 (1158), Beautiful Sunny Mesa, Arizona, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/58/102/514/20
Dec 6, 2006  
As light beer goes, it doesn’t get any better. Beats anything put out by any of the major U.S. breweries in the light category.


 cjw163 (108), hummelstown, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/105/512/20
Dec 4, 2006  
12 oz bottle... nice pale amber color.. Is probally one of the better Light beers and I am not a fan of Sam Adams.. not too shabby...



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