Miller Lite

Brewed by Miller Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Pale Lager
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

This beer had no aroma what-so-ever. Tasted like bread. Pretty clean and refreshing palate. Just another pale lager though. Nothing particularly bad or good about it (with respect to it’s category of course)

Very watery beer with more aftertaste than taste. Almost no aroma at all. light vanilla taste. The aftertaste is citrussy and almost metallic. not very hoppy. This is a college frap boy beer made to chug not to enjoy. The only positive is that you can get a pint for a $1 in a lot of places.

Drank one at a baseball game. I had a difficult time finishing it. Bland, watered down, nothing appealing about it.

Miller Lite--True Pilsner Beer--2007 12 oz. Bottle. 4.20% ABV--10 IBU’s.? (2.0 / 5.0) Pilsner--Light. Fizzy mild lace head. Clear very thin straw color. Bland hop hint front. Thin watery mild tangy quenching mild adjunct caramel light Pils body. Hop hint refreshing easy bland end. OK Light. No off flavors. Sampled 4/19/2007.

great taste less filling? ok. pours a really pale watery urine yellow. smells like a value macro. ok. it does have more taste than most light lagers-but thats not necessarily a good thing. run of the mill semi-watered down boring macro flavor. I’d rather just have beer water with maybe a hint of excitement. sure. its drinkable. good throwback beer. not my throwback of choice but its what the people like. Serving type: can Reviewed on: 04-13-2007 14:33:22

When I drink a beer, no matter what style or brewery, what I want out of it is taste. Light beers generally do not deliver in the taste department, although Miller Lite comes fairly close. For a mass-market, low-grade, obviously watered-down lager, it’s almost satisfactory.

POUR, COLOR AND AROMA

This beer pours exactly as you’d expect: rough and to a bright straw-colored body bursting with carbonation and a bright white foamy head which lasts only slightly longer than the other big-name “lights”. It has a completely generic “beer smell” which is bland and grainy with hints of adjunct ingredients present.

TASTE

Upon my swigs of Bud Light and Coors Light the first flavor that hit me was water, but with Miller Lite, the first thing I noticed was something resembling actual taste. Despite what their marketing department would have us believe, the taste is not “great” and it’s better than the other two, but only by the slimmest margin.

I’m not sure what Miller uses as an adjunct, but I’m guessing it’s either potatoes or corn. It doesn’t have the sweet, cereal-like taste of the other lights. There definitely is something to the palate here, but whatever it is it’s a little more rugged and gives the beer just the slightest bite. I also found the taste to be slightly metallic, and of course it was noticeably watery in the rear of the mouth.

FINISH

Do I even have to write this paragraph? This is a light beer so it’s no surprise it’s easy to drink, especially considering how generally flat and watery the palate is. It does have just the faintest bit of edge, but even the lightest of the lightweights would be able to handle it no problem.

BODY

Miller likes to brag that it has half the carbs of Bud Light, but is there really that much of a difference between Bud’s 6.6 and Miller’s 3.2? They weigh nearly the same at 96 calories (1 more than Bud) and are identical at 4.2% ABV. This beer seems to have just the tiniest bit more junk in the trunk, but again, this is a mass-market light beer so it lends itself to consumption in high volume.

FINAL THOUGHTS

After having carefully studied the “Big Three” light beers I can now distinguish between them and feel that Miller Lite probably is the least worst of them.

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Smells of a cheese. Taste is mild and light. Looks quite well when first poured - a pale golden yellow color with a bright white head. Head disappears quickly.

Can. A - Light straw gold with a good sized white, foamy head. Decent retention but little lacing left. S - Light and clean. Grain and corn with a little hop smell. T - Sweet corn and grain taste along with faint hop bitterness. A little mineral taste at the end. M - Light and good carbonation. Crisp. D - Easy to drink and refreshing. Similar to most beers of the style. Easy to drink and refreshing but not a great tasting beer. Notes: Similar to most Macros. Not bad for a light lager and it has its place, but not really anything to drink.