(Bottle 35,5 cl) Clear pilsener golden with a white head. Sweetish aroma of malt and corn. Light-bodied with rather sweet malts, lots of carbonation and the usual lack of bitterness. Your typical light beer. 220307

This scintillating masterwork of brand dilution comes in a can but I’m pretty sure it’s yellow. It smells like swill in a can. If you were ever a teenager, you know that smell needs no professional elaboration. Heinie Light is ethereal in body, grainy in taste and sweet on the tongue. It finishes too quickly to quench my thirst, and without enough alcohol to provide a buzz. If I had tasted this anywhere but on a boat it would have been a catastrophic waste of my time.

Name: Heineken Light
Date: 04/13/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Wild Wing Cafe, Marietta

pale yellow, lots of tiny bubbles, thin white head, sweet corn aroma, clean light sweet corn taste, trademark green glass skunk, a hint of bitterness in the finish

Aroma: 1/10; Appearance: 2/10; Flavor: 1/10; Palate: 3/10; Overall: 3/20
Rating: 0.8/5.0
Drinkability: 3/10
Score: */4

Bottle... Clear, less-than-yellow lager with a small, creamy, white head. The aroma sells the beer out as being lightstruck. Maybe a mild note of honey. Other than the skunkiness and the whiff of honey, both the aroma and flavor are totally nondescript. Tastes like seltzer water. Light-bodied and fizzy with a short, crisp, clean finish. Tastes a lot like Amstel Light... maybe has less actual flavor.

Pours a pale golden color, light but retentive white head. The nose is classic heineken, full of aromatic adjunct and skunk. The flavor is dry and flat, metallic and thin. No body or aftertaste. I pity the fool who drinks this.