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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.


3.3
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
mcclenw (36) - Stevenson, Alabama, USA - NOV 26, 2007
Bottle. By far the best light beer out there. Pours a light amber color. Aroma is that of a weaker Boston Lager. Flavor is slight caramel. All in all my favorite light beer.

2.2
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 2/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 9/20
porterhouse (1482) - Alna, Maine, USA - NOV 26, 2007
(Bottle (best before 11/07) from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/maine/augusta/l target=blank>Lou’s Beverage Barn) Pours clear light amber with one finger of biege head. Nose is rather weak but has faint hints of egg and vanilla and some hops. Mouthfeel is blunt and cardboard-like, quite prickly, thin. Flavor is rather wooden and artificial but has some caramel/vanilla/egg hints but really not much. Even though this is a light beer I expected a little more from Sammy. Premium lager?

2.4
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
bhensonb (7143) - Woodland, California, USA - NOV 24, 2007
Pours well. A nice amber color and a decent beige head. Aroma sort of a standard macro with a bit of caramel - this is a big improvement. There’s some noble hop to go with the caramel. Pretty thin in body, and the carbonation is fizzy. The flavor is caramel, not all that light either, and the expected hop. It is almost crisp, and pretty clean. At 128 calories this is way more flavorful than should be possible. More hop and this could really be something.

2.9
   AROMA 5/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
scooterling (25) - S. San Francisco, California, USA - NOV 23, 2007
I want to like this. I really do. Perhaps it was my move to the West Coast that has me craving hoppy beers now. Lighter than Sam Adams, but not really a true light diet beer. Amstel is still my choice.

2.1
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 7/20
jsh12bama (599) - Alabama, USA - NOV 23, 2007
Basic light beer with a little more taste than the standard macro crap. Decent beer but just not the style I prefer.

2.4
   AROMA 3/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 12/20
EithCubes (3054) - GERMANY - NOV 21, 2007
Bottle. Sickly sweet pale malt aroma, possibly corny but I’m not laying money on it. Slight yeast and a goodly dash of grain. Deep, dark golden body, surprisingly so, with a vigorous and noisy soapy beige head. Sweet pale malt taste, mid-body through aftertaste is nice and bready, but dries out only slightly. Startlingly full body, albeit with a somewhat blasé feel. Pro: easily one of the best "light" or "lite" beers around. Con: That’s still not saying much.

2.3
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
cryfreedmb (113) - Ocean, New Jersey, USA - NOV 18, 2007
Eh, decent light beer I guess. I was looking for something more from Sam Adams. Some hop aroma with a bit of flavor. Slight malt backround. Overall, it’s definitly better then Bud and Coors light but Miller Lite isn’t far behind in opinion.

2.6
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
douglas88 (3483) - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA - NOV 16, 2007
Bottle. Pours a light orange with a small head. The taste is really watery, with some light hops and a smooth malt. Overall, one of the best light beers, that’s not saying much of course.


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