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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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9712.53/5.02.54/5.04.05%44.1Lager 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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 nefarious (203), Clarkston, Michigan, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/56/102/511/20
Apr 23, 2009  
What a beer! Amber pour with a generous white head. and definate grain and barley aroma. Heavy malt flavor as well. but you know it runs circles around most other lagers. just like regular Sam.


 Skeegle (499), Maryland, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/56/103/514/20
Apr 23, 2009  
For a light macro beer you have to give this guy props where they’re deserved. It has a nice appearance of light amber and the smell holds something other than corn puffs. Decent barley notes all throughout around the caramel vein and there are some very light sugars present. Nice beer for what it is, I respect SA for brewing this guy up :-)


 MrBeerFanatic (363), jamestown, New York, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/510/20
Apr 20, 2009  
Pours light amber with a fizzy white head. Aromas of barley with a slight sourness. In the flavor category I was slightly surprised. For a light beer, its not to bland. Its crisp, clean and ends with barely any aftertaste, or at least a gross one as most light beers have. Watery yes, but has some flavors of grain and barley. I wish they would sell them in 30 packs for a low price.


 halfonit (479), Fall River, Massachusetts, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/511/20
Apr 19, 2009    Updated: Nov 1, 2009
Not too bad for a commercialized micro brew. Doesn’t seen to be close to the same that is was about ten years ago but it still does the job.


 cbkschubert (2015), Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/103/511/20
Apr 17, 2009  
12 oz. bottle from Plaza Liquors - Pours a crystal clear copper color with a one finger thick off white head. Light lacing. Aroma is light malt and herbal hops. Flavor is basically the same. Medium body. Drinkable.


 jbye4334 (710), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/55/103/511/20
Apr 16, 2009  
(bottle). Pours a medium yellow color. Small white head, which dimishes quickly. Light alcohol and malt aroma. Light malt taste. Minimal lacing. Smooth finish. Soft carbonation.


 bconley (351), Fern Park, Florida, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/103/59/20
Apr 15, 2009  
Bottle at friends wedding reception...it was free. Ice cold, it wasn’t terrible. has an amber color. Light hops and malts, fitting since it’s a light lager......it was free.


 altonbrownd (1959), Amsterdam, Netherlands
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/510/20
Apr 14, 2009  
Bottle at Newark Airport (for $7!!). Light amber colour, with a hoppy nose. Watery taste and mouthfeel. Some malt and caramel. Distinctive Sammie Adams nuts and malts in the finish. Okay.



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