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Sam Adams Light

Sam Adams Light

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A Premium Lager brewed by
Boston Beer Company

Boston, Massachusetts USA

bottled
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on tap
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8422.52/5.02.52/5.04.05%46.1 Lager glass P  Stats

Commercial Description:
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.

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greenleaf (88), Florida, USA
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/104/56/102/56/20

May 4, 2008  
bottle 12oz. What to expect from a light beer. Sam Adams uses a house yeast to give it the traditional boston beer flavor profile, but it is still a light beer. A very good, if not one of the better attempts to a light beer. However, not one that I would attempt again.

 hop_lover (122), Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/56/104/510/20
Sep 5, 2008  
For a light beer this is one of the best. Compared to the other sIv’e had it’s way better. But I’m not into light beers.


 Beerman6686 (707), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/59/20
Sep 3, 2008  
Pours a light light amber color with a white head. Aroma was very subdued, mainly just malts and maybe some caramel. Flavor was basically just watered down Boston Lager, no other way to explain it.


 SuIIy (1109), W Newton, Massachusetts, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Aug 29, 2008  
One of the better "light" beers. Pours a light caramel color with a thin fizzy head. Nose is light hops, some caramel notes, very light and airy. Flavor is similar with a nice fizzyness.


 Imaena (243), Portland, Maine, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/512/20
Aug 28, 2008  
Bottle 08’. For a light lager this is quite well done. If you are a big beer fanatic then obviously this wont be as flavorful or complex as you might want. Grainy, light bodied, light hops, a drink out of the bottle type of beer.


 ketchepillar (252), Des Moines, Iowa, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/513/20
Aug 25, 2008  
Really not too bad. I definitely prefer this to the Boston Lager. Very clean, no brewing flaws. Even some hops to speak of.




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