Samuel Adams Sam Adams Light

Sam Adams Light

 

Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

Lager - Premium Rotating
Score
5.32
ABV: 4.3% IBU: 10 Ticks: 11
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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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 ounce bottle into signature pint glass, best before 1/2017. Pours crystal clear golden orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of cracker, lightly toasted biscuit, light caramel, herbal, light pepper, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of cracker, lightly toasted biscuit, light caramel, herbal, light pepper, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light herbal/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of cracker, lightly toasted biscuit, light caramel, herbal, light pepper, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp/dry, fairly bready/grainy, and lightly creamy mouthfeel that is nice. Very clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Overall this is a nice light lager style. All around good robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink. Very flavorful with a nice mouthfeel for the low ABV; feels like a lighter version of Boston lager for the most part. A nicely enjoyable offering.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Nov 2016 at 20:01


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Tried on 28 Feb 2016 at 12:08


4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3

12oz bottle, stemware @ 55F - Dark amber, no head. nose is pretty nonexistent, maybe some burnt malts? Caramel, brown sugar, apple, pear, etc. but very little taste.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Mar 2015 at 19:32


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Okay, so here’s a "light" beer that’s intended to be light and a unique tasting experience. It has a nice caramel body with minimal carbonation and a modest bit of light beige head. Aroma is murky hoppiness. Flavour is a decent malty affair with a watery finish. Certainly better than other "light" beers but not really particularily good.

Tried on 22 Apr 2014 at 11:32


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Backlog. Pours amber with white head. Nose and taste of grassy hop, light caramel malt, light bread and toasted grain. Lighter body.

Tried on 27 Mar 2014 at 10:29


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Overall Impression: Better then most light beers...Can you think of any good light beers? Exactly!

Tried from Can on 14 May 2009 at 15:44


5
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 11

Bottle. Clear amber body. Small off-white head that disappears. The aroma is grain with notes of husks and caramel. There is a hint of floral hops. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body with a watery texture and fizzy carbonation. I had hoped for the beer to have more of the Boston Lager profile, but it doesn’t have near the hop flavor. Still better than a lot of light beer alternatives because it has some flavor.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2009 at 23:38


4.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle: Poured a clear amber with an off white head. Aroma is malt. Taste is watery and corn.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Mar 2009 at 21:12


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Bottle. Pours a golden amber color with a medium frothy white head. A very malty aroma with light hops. Good lacing that dissipates quickly. The taste is a watery malt with a metallic finish, nowhere near as good as boston lager.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jul 2007 at 20:45


3.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Bottled. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is malts, caramel, somewhat dishwatery hints. Flavouris toffee, saltwater, paper and cardboard. Not very exciting.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2007 at 08:13