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Heineken Premium Light Lager

Heineken Premium Light Lager

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A Pale Lager brewed by
Heineken Nederland

Zoeterwoude, Netherlands

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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2521.61/5.01.61/5.03.2%14.5 Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker, Stein P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Brewed in the same high quality tradition as the original Heineken, but lighter in taste and with fewer calories and carbohydrates.

Being introduced in four select US markets beginning in June 2005: Phoenix, Arizona; Dallas, Texas; Tampa, Florida; and Providence, Rhode Island.

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 BBB63 (3681), La Porte, Indiana, USA
0.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/101/51/101/52/20

Apr 30, 2008  
Bottle and served in pint glass: Pale straw hue with a fading fizzy head and spotty lace. The aroma has notes of noble grassy hops, cardboardy grains, hint of minerals, and some DMS. The taste is almost non-existent, some very light hop acidic (not bitterness mind you) and grain then followed by an adjunct twangy finish. The mouth feel is fizzy and damn near could be carbonated water, not so nice metallic finish. All you need to know is the beer is not served in it’s home country. If I had a choice between this, Bud Light, and water then I think I would be drinking water. (At least my bottle was not skunked!)

 mhelgason (415), Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/52/102/56/20
Jul 25, 2008  
bottle. a touch of skunk (cleaner than corona’s) with some hops and some malts (mostly nothingness). not much to it. I have never understood the popularity of this brand.


 Naka (375), Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
1.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/101/53/102/55/20
Jul 22, 2008  
Pours a pale golden color with just a little fizzy head. Corny grain funk and sort of skunky like everything else says. The taste is a sweet sugary. Has a little bit of a dry bitterness which is pretty much all that redeems it. Boo.


 changeup45 (530), Orlando, Florida, USA
0.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/101/51/101/54/20
Jul 17, 2008  
Nothing premium about this. Pale looking beer with a corn, grainy, whatever else taste with a foul, somewhat skunked finish and aftertaste. A beer that is this much watered down should at least go down easily but this one did not. Sampled at Orlando Ale House, got the bill and saw this one cost $4.50. Yikes.


 jhliesen (331), West Melbourne, Florida, USA
0.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/101/52/101/52/20
Jul 12, 2008  
Bottle--Well, I can mark this one off my list. I don’t get the Premium label, oh yes, marketing, how can I forget? I wonder what the regular light beer tastes like. I drank this right after a Bud Light Lime and I liked the Bud Light better. Skunky smell, yellow color and bad taste.


 peter (331), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
0.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/103/51/103/51/20
Jul 11, 2008  
Plastic cup at taste of philly. Yellow and foamy with a bit of malt on the nose. Nothing in the flavour. Just water.




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