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Grain Belt Premium Light
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RATINGS: 28   MEAN: 2.14/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.25   EST. CALORIES: 120   ABV: 4%
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Local legends aren’t just born, they’re brewed. And no beer in the Midwest has a grander brewing tradition than Grain Belt. For over 100 years, Grain Belt has been the beer that fathers have passed on to sons and friends have passed amongst each other at local bars and watering holes. It is a beer with tradition that spans generations. Which is why it has become legendary–both here and across the country.

In the 1940s, around the same time Grain Belt built its famous bottle cap sign overlooking the Mississippi River in Northeast Minneapolis, they introduced a “Beer of Exceptional Quality”–Premium. With its crisp, unique flavor, Premium quickly became the flagship of the Grain Belt brand. And still is to this day.

Although the Grain Belt Premium recipe has changed hands over the years, one thing has remained the same–its legendary unique taste. And now that Premium is in the capable hands of a brewery with an even longer tradition than Grain Belt–the August Schell Brewery–may you rest assured that the flavor and heritage of Premium will live on forever.

So as a local legendary beer, we raise a glass to all the people, places and things that make the Midwest such a rich and unique place to live. Here’s to you!


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2
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
antisnobJP (275) - St. Michael, Minnesota, USA - JUN 6, 2004
Bottle. I bought this for someone who likes light beers, but they cancelled on me, so here I go. I like Grain Belt Premium. This stuff does not taste anything like it. Typical ultra light beer with a metallic salty flavor and zero body. Do we really need a light version of a light beer? I was fooled by the surprising aroma similarity to Premium( corny malt). Crystal clear and well carbonated with just enough yellow to let you know it is beer. Goes down fast and is cleaner than many light lagers. This is a beer I would recommend only to the carb counting freaks who insist on still drinking beer. Not for everyday mass consumption. Although I’m on my eighth as I write this.

1.5
   AROMA 2/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 4/20
punklawyer (100) - USA - FEB 12, 2004
Does the brewery pour milk in this stuff to make it as cloudy and flat as it is? This is a horrible brew.

3.8
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
Slick (1971) - Thief River Falls, Minnesota, USA - NOV 21, 2003
UPDATED: JAN 31, 2004 Nice light golden color,small white head that had a short life.The aroma was malty,corn and some what fruity as well.The taste was lightly malty a little corn mild hops and just cerealish.Over all a fairly nice brew that started and finished quite nicely with a high drinkability.This was a nice surprise and i would recommend this to anyone for a refreshing rendition of a light beer.

2.3
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
JoeM500 (1900) - Crown Point, Indiana, USA - NOV 9, 2003
Very watered down version of the very watered down Premium original. Less grainy and corny, actually went well with a wild boar sausage...yum.

3.8
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 17/20
GrandMasterSexay (26) - Minnesota, USA - SEP 25, 2002
can you even legally call this light beer? doesn’t taste nearly enough like water...

2.1
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
GrainBeltGuzzler (249) - Goodhue, Minnesota, USA - MAY 27, 2002
UPDATED: JAN 13, 2004 recently re-released by schell's and a far cry from its previoius embodiment. Kind of watered down and cornish, Poor job by schells

2.4
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 1/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
greystreet80 (191) - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - MAR 6, 2002
For a Minnesota light beer its ok. not much flavor at all. It tastes a lot like Grainbelt Premium, just a little more watered down. I probably will never drink it again. I don’t see any reason to.

1.7
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 5/20
joet (1925) - Santa Rosa, California, USA - DEC 28, 2001
Call this a Koelsch and it almost passes. Snow white cap, pale lagery looking nectar, just some hint of a hoppish aroma... As it passes from ice cold to room temperature the aroma gets more stark and that metallic mineral and Coors like flavors lightly and incompletely emerge. Not altogether awful. Better than some domestic so called Koelsches.


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