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RATINGS: 1134   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.55   EST. CALORIES: 122   ABV: 4.05%
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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.


2.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
MaltDawg (1344) - Richmond, Virginia, USA - SEP 18, 2010
(Sample Date: 9/5/2010 Source:Maniac) 12 oz bottle. Moderate caramel maltiness with some grain in aroma. Clear dark golden with small white head. Flavor follows aroma with a light spicy hop flavor. Finish is clean but slightly cardboard. Not bad.

2.3
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
BillHick420 (105) - North Dakota, USA - SEP 18, 2010
Pours an abmber body with a white head. No distinct taste, except a distinct hoppy taste. Not much other taste to it. Not a good beer. Thin palate.

2.4
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
maniac (3474) - Baltimore, Maryland, USA - SEP 17, 2010
Bottle from the World Beer Festival - Richmond on 09/05/2010. Very clear light copper body with a medium creamy off-white head. Sweet toasty malt aroma. Sweet malty flavor, some toasty and caramel notes. Medium body with moderate carbonation.

2.1
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
cbfobes (1011) - Madison, Wisconsin, USA - SEP 11, 2010
Poured from 12oz bottle, clear golden with no head, sweet aroma with watery malt and slight hop note, overall bland and boring,

2.2
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 8/20
Kavu (938) - Jyväskylä, FINLAND - SEP 3, 2010
The worst Sam Adams I’ve tried but the best light beer I’ve tried. Not much of a character, but quite drinkable.

2.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 8/20
kramer (3376) - Sunbury, Pennsylvania, USA - AUG 28, 2010
12 oz bottle. Pours a clear light amber body with minimal to no head. The nose is lightly grainy and toasty malts with minimal to no hops. The flavor is very weak and thin with a slight husky and grainy maltiness. Just the lightest hint of bitterness on the finish, but more than anything this just tastes watery. Light bodied, thin, with fizzy carbonation. This was actually pretty bad. Surprisingly bad for a Sam Adams beer.

2.4
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 1/5   OVERALL 10/20
arkurzynski (721) - West Bend, Wisconsin, USA - AUG 26, 2010
Very good aroma for what it is, definitely a noble hop smell, pale malts. Taste is watered down - but what do you want? Almost a vegetal di-acetyl taste. Hop bitterness is again, better than what one would expect from a "light." Not terrible, but not good.

2.8
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
TaktikMTL (4133) - Montréal-Nord, Quebec, CANADA - AUG 24, 2010
En fût. Verre de 12 oz chez The Captain’s Galley (Old Orchard Beach, ME). Arôme: Léger goût de céréales avec une très légère pointe d’houblons. Apparence: La couleur est dorée avec une très faible densité de bulle. Précense d’un mince col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Léger goût de céréales avec une pointe fruitée. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement minérale. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Arrière goût légèrement fruité. (Rating #3177)


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