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Sam Adams Light

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15
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bottled
common

on tap
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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tnbeerdrinker (10), Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/56/103/58/20
Nov 28, 2006  
I had not seen the commercial description prior to this. I thought it was a light version of the lager. Now I know better. Still not one of my favorite Sam Adams choices though.


 LinusStick (1846), Moon Twp, suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/55/102/512/20
Nov 28, 2006  
A good light beer. With it’s bold taste it almost doesn’t taste light. It makes me want to dump tea off the side of a ship. One of the best light beers out there!


 hogan873 (332), Joliet, Illinois, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20
Nov 25, 2006  
A light beer that actually tastes like beer. Of course, it’s a light beer by Sam Adams standards...still has 9 carbs. But, very tasty. Looks darker than most American lagers, let alone lights. A lot of flavor and finishes smooth. But for the price, it’s a fine light beer.


ExSpectator (65), Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/103/512/20
Nov 25, 2006  
Bottle. Of all the light beers i’ve tried, this is probably the best, which isn’t to say it’s great. Aroma is faintly of malt, taste is of malt with slight hop bitterness. Does not taste at all like the normal Boston Lager.


 kevd193213 (498), Hope Valley, Rhode Island, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/57/102/515/20
Nov 24, 2006  
If you are going to drink a light beer, make it Sam Adams. Nice bold taste for a light beer, good head out of the bottle or tap.


 jason (1623), Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/513/20
Nov 20, 2006  
Bottle. I have to say that being a light beer it is probably THE best light beer(not that they should be made or anything). Decent aroma and crisp flavor that is just that - crisp and bitter. Smooth but leaves my mouth wanting a different beer.


ELDERPURPLE (11), USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/510/104/519/20
Nov 20, 2006  
one of my favorite light beers. amazing, surprising taste. The aroma is that of any normal light beer, as is the palate. No definite aftertaste... and also not similar to boston lager.


 JCapriotti (1378), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/511/20
Nov 14, 2006  
Decided to try this because I didn’t want a heavy beer. Tasted like a light Boston Lager, but with a stale, cheap grainy component added in.



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