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Sapporo Light Beer - Sapporo Breweries Ltd.

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Sapporo Light BeerSapporo Light Beer

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28 Reviews
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Reviews: 28
Hads: 65
Avg: 2.46
pDev: 41.46%
Wants: 0
Gots: 5 | FT: 0
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Sapporo Breweries Ltd. visit their website

Style | ABV
Light Lager |  3.90% ABV

Availability: Year-round

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Beer added by: jdhilt on 07-28-2005

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Reviews: 28 | Hads: 65
Photo of Myotus
2.51/5  rDev +2%

Poured from a 12oz bottle (bottled 09Mar15) into a pilsner glass.
LOOK: Pours with a half finger's worth of white foam that shrivels down into a line after 45 seconds. Rising bubbles are medium sized and are moderate in number. Straw yellow in color. Lacing is thin and moderate, but stays on the sides of the glass.
SMELL: Has subtle aromas of rice and and hints of bitter and spicy hops. This hardly smells like anything.
TASTE: Mild aromas of rice malts enter intially and are immediately followed by mild bitter and spicy hops.
FEEL: Light-bodied and so carbonated, that it burns my tongue. Goes down rough and had a thirst-quenching finish.
NOTE: Incredibly well-balanced. Doesn't make it any better tasting, though.

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1.33/5  rDev -45.9%

A simply horrible beer, if one could call it a beer. Regular Sapporo is bad enough but I guess the brewers felt like they could do even worse....they were right. Appearance is about what you'd expect from a light beer, pale with barely any color, as if you mixed a spoonful of beer in a glass full of water. Lingering and repulsive acidic taste, flat and empty body even for a light beer. Aroma not completely repugnant but it's nothing that a beer should smell like as it is absent of any trace of fundamental beer ingredients. Smells more like sake without the alcohol. If you like beer made from rice I guess this won't be the worst thing you could drink but don't expect quality here.

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Photo of jeranbrews
2.68/5  rDev +8.9%

A - Clear gasoline yellow. Light finger of head

S - Average for the style. Lightly astringent but much better than adjunct beers.

T - Slightly boring. Flavor is heavily dependent on the malts themselves. Not much hopping or roasting and no esters to speak of

M - The best part of the experience. It is a thick malty beer. They call it light but I'm curious what the calorie level actually it to achieve this mouth feel.

O - This is an ok beer if you're in the mood for something bland and thick. You can pick up a 6pack around these parts for less than $8. I needed some extra bottles for a batch I'm brewing and this was about this same price as buying bottles.

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Photo of EagleTalon
2.83/5  rDev +15%

Pours to a fine white head and minimal lacing. Color is pale gold. Aroma is vegetal DMS, pale malt and a hint of noble hops. Flavor is crisp and light with a nondescript grain flavor and clean finish. Mouthfeel is light and effervescent. Overall a typical light low-cal lager.

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Photo of Ozzylizard
2.06/5  rDev -16.3%

Undated bottle at 35 degrees into standard pint glass
Aroma of some nasty sulfur compounds (Skunked)
Lacing – none
Body light yellow, clear, rising bubbles
Palate light, watery, lively carbonation


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Photo of JuicesFlowing
2.91/5  rDev +18.3%

Poured into a shaker pint glass.

Look: Light golden body. Fizzy white head with no retention or lacing.

Aroma: Slightly metallic, sour adjuncts.

Taste: Sweetness up front, light and grainy.

Mouthfeel: Crisp and carbonated.

Overall: The taste and mouthfeel make up for the lackluster aroma and look. This is a very clean, refreshing beer.

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Photo of RonaldTheriot
3.32/5  rDev +35%

Sapporo Light has a thin, white head, a somewhat hazy, bubbly straw appearance, and a bit of spider web lacing left behind. The aroma is quite rich and pungent, with sweet, biscuit malt and grass. The flavor, however, is watered down. One will detect a slight hop bitterness and a touch of grain husk. Mouthfeel is not as light a usual, and one will experience a pleasant body, here. Sapporo Light finishes mostly dry, crisp, and refreshing. Yes, it is a rather dull, light beer, but in the style, it is much better than usual.


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Photo of Stinkypuss
2.8/5  rDev +13.8%

Sapporo Premium Light

LOOK: Perfectly clear light yellow. Soapy white fizzy head dies on impact. Active carbonation rises briskly to the top. Looks like a light lager.

SMELL: Cereal grains, very light malts and sweet rice.

TASTE: Creamed corn, malts, sweet rice. Snap of lemony citrus from the hop additions. Bitterness is medium, which is well stated for the style. Mild metallic taste. A primordial soup of cereal grains muddles what could have been a clean finish.

FEEL: Light bodied, well carbonated lager beer. Would be a crisp finish, but leaves a chalky feel that is abnormal for the style.

OVERALL: Average at best. Trying every beer possible has its downfalls. If yours not eating sushi while you're having this beer, you're doing something wrong.

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Photo of metter98
2.34/5  rDev -4.9%


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Photo of Fatehunter
2.02/5  rDev -17.9%

Strong metallic smell with a hint of honey.
Light body, moderate carbonation.
Nothing special or interesting. Another light lager without flavor.

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Photo of freditoj
2.38/5  rDev -3.3%


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Photo of chinchill
2.55/5  rDev +3.7%

12 oz bottle of "Premium Light Beer" (from slightly different front label than that shown on BA).

Pours a light golden color; crystal clear with visible carbonation and a smallish, short-lived white head.

T: Cannot verify this, but tasting left the immediate impression that this beer was made with rice. The flavor, as expected in light and subtle, but overall pleasant. Rather than hops, or perhaps due to the hops, a light skunkiness comes thru in the finish, which is the weak point of this weak beer.

M: light and somewhat watery; good level of carbonation.

O: a subtlety flavored light beer made with rice and/or corn; that being said, not too bad.

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Photo of homebrew311
1.59/5  rDev -35.4%



T: carbonated water with a grainy finish, minimal flavor

Mf: paper thin body, fizzy carbonation

O: nothing exciting, very boring and flavorless

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Photo of WoodBrew
3.19/5  rDev +29.7%

Had the Saporro Light at the J'Town Japanese steakhouse. The beer poured a very clear golden color with good carbonation that forms some head. Both which dissapates during the drink. The smell and taste are grain, barley, and enought balance from teh hps to make this beer drinkable. The mouthfeel is very easy drinking and it is definitely a session beer. Overall it is a typical american adjunct style beer.

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Photo of womencantsail
2.56/5  rDev +4.1%

A: The beer pours a clear, pale straw color with a finger of white head.

S: Definitely heavy on the rice. Very light nose with a strong adjunct aroma and very little malt to it. Not much hops to it, perhaps a little bit of grass and some light skunk. Almost all rice.

T: Slightly tangy, strangely. Lots of rice, in fact, that's pretty much what it tastes like. A hint of white grape, grass, and a light vegetal character. Not terribly good (shockingly).


O: Regular Sapporo is definitely preferable to this. But, it does it's job as a light lager.

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Photo of aval89
2/5  rDev -18.7%




Mf is very light.. Light bodied

Easy to drink but not the best tasting...


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Photo of JerseyPaul
2.26/5  rDev -8.1%







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Photo of Amalak
1.3/5  rDev -47.2%


Very, very light beer with no taste other than skunk.

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Photo of DoubleJ
2.78/5  rDev +13%

My review of Sapporo Light. Written by DoubleJ. On to the beer:

The most impressive part of the appearance was the head on the pour. Big foamy head on top with solid retention. The beer's color was pale yellow. The aroma was light, but still smelled like beer without anything bad. Pale malt was dominant. The taste is fine....for what it is, but then again I was drinking this while eating a chicken rice bowl. Plain would describe the flavor. Slight husk and neutral rice, quite clean. Good crispness in the body. Faint seltezer taste towards the end of the journey.

A decent, light tasting beer to clean up food, but I'll leave it at that.

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Photo of ChainGangGuy
2.88/5  rDev +17.1%

Appearance: Pours a clear, yellow body with steady streams of bubbles and a thin, white head.

Smell: Faint, light pale malt aroma with a hint of cereal sweetness to it.

Taste: Light pale malts, lightly sweet. A touch of cleansing bitterness. Then gone. And that's all she wrote!

Mouthfeel: Light-bodied. Medium carbonation.

Drinkability: There's not much there, obviously, but what is there isn't altogether terrible. I'll go bland and inoffensive over icky and sickening any damn day of the week.

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Photo of ATLbeerDog
1.65/5  rDev -32.9%


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Photo of Onslow
2.57/5  rDev +4.5%

Had with Saucebox at Tokyo Bowl (alaska,rockN,houston,___) ...Pours a standard yellow with a lower than average head... smell is of faint hops and grain ... taste is surprisingly full for a light, has some grain tastes but nice actually... One of the nicer light beers out there...

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Photo of BuckeyeNation
2.06/5  rDev -16.3%







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Photo of Drew966
2.82/5  rDev +14.6%

Sapporo Light Beer pours a light golden yellow color with a white head from a brown twelve ounce bottle. There is almost no aroma, what little aroma is present is not offensive. The flavor is the same as the aroma, but I'm having a hard time describing it. Perhaps it's a bit of malt graininess. Okay for what it is, not a bad choice if you want a light lager.

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Photo of NeroFiddled
2.82/5  rDev +14.6%

There's a distinct apple-like fruitiness to the flavor of Sapporo Light sold in the US. It's contract brewed in Guelph, Ontario, Canada; probably by Sleeman's, which might explain that.

It pours a crystal-clear straw-gold body beneath an intitally full head of creamy bright-white foam. The head drops almost immediately to a thin collar, however, and it leaves no lace about the glass.

There's a touch of apple in the nose, but mainly it's sweetish adjunct-malt. Some alcohol adds to that but doesn't really stand out.

As might be expected, the body is light; and it's initially crisp in the mouth before it warms.

The flavor offers little more than the basic adjunct-laden malt, yeasty apple-like flavor, and alcohol found in the nose. Apart from that there's a sublime smear of non-descript hops in the background, and a balancing bitterness.

It's basic, to say the least, but at least it's very clean, and unoffensive in anyway. For 96 calories, on the other hand, I think I'd just pass it by - there's not enough flavor there to warrant drinking it.

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Sapporo Light Beer from Sapporo Breweries Ltd.
65 out of 100 based on 28 ratings.