Beck's Premier Light
Only 64 calories. Less than any other beer as of June, 2005.
1.6
184 reviews
Bremen, Germany
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Backlog of ratings. Thanks to someone at one of bu11zeye’s tastings. The smell is skunky, florals, corn, and light. The look is clear, golden in color, and has a whitish head. The taste is weak, floral, and light.
Rated in 2010 (Backlog) - Pale yellow with a small white head. Aroma is of heavy skunkiness, grain and cigarette butts. Taste is of grain.
The distinctive grainy malt aroma of Beck’s remains apparent, its weaker body is the noticeable change - it lacks flavour because of it. Pale yellow colour when it is out of its bottle.
12oz bottle in Boston. Last at the party, then sits in the fridge for awhile beer. Innocuous soft sour lager, not a lot of flavor, dry sparkling water. Some sour grain notes. Pretty weak, but not ill put together for what it actually is. Which I guess applauds minimal alcohol and mild flavor. Ok, it fulfills this, but I still wonder why.
Frisch herber, leicht metallener Antrunk. Wässrig bitter, weiter metallern. Noch trinkbar. 9/7/7/7/9/7
Clear copper pour..faint malty rotten aroma..taste is like a very light heinekin.. just decent
ours a clear and very pale golden color. There is only bits of a head to it. Scent is that of cheap grassy grains. The taste at least has some flavor to it but not very much. The taste is very grassy and drinks like water. No texture at all and essentially drinks like beer flavored water. The only thing this beer has going for it is that at least it’s better than MGD 64.
Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow with small frothy white head that diminishes quickly to nothing. The aroma is corn malt and skunk. Thin mouthfeel with a light corn malt flavor. Not much going on with this one.
Bottle from Sainsbury’s Team Valley, Gateshead. Pale golden coloured with sweet malt, slight toffee notes and a watery, sugary finish.
Bottle. Taste is skunk water. Aroma is skunk water. Golden in color, decent head not much lace. Had much better Gernan beers.
12oz bottle. 2.3%, whoa... This is almost an NA beer. Labeled as "less than 3.2%" on the bottle. Thin white head, that fizzes away to minimal. Clear yellow color. Kind of a sweet taste, with a skunky bite. Hay, salt, bread aroma. Bitey carbonation. Dry finish. Weird pepper aftertaste. Some acidity. I’d probably suggest this for somebody seeking low-ABV or super-light beer, but of course, it can’t compare to real beer. Has a slight gluten-free-esque character to it. By no means high-quality, but definitely better than other American macro light beers and it does what they do better -- it’s way lighter.
Shared a bottle with Judes.. . light gold .. .light foam .. . no real lacing .. . light grassy skunk and wet grass .. . a good simple light beer, but probably not again .. . . i do not say blah!
its more than decent. nice smell. clean feeling in my mouth. very good for such a light beer.
Pours a very light straw color with half inch head that faded very quickly. Almost non-existant aroma. Taste is dry, grainy, corn husk, with a slight hop note.
Bottle. Light yellow with almost no head. Very light smell of honey and sour. Light honey flavor. Watery.
You can turn up your nose at this stuff if you want, but if it is a foregone conclusion that you’re going to drink an extremely light beer, this is probably your best choice. Yes, it’s watery, but at least it has some beer flavor and some hoppy overtones. And unlike other less-than-100-calorie choices, it contains about as much alcohol as a standard beer. Comparing it to 150-calorie beer is like comparing a Weight Watchers meal to a four-course steak dinner. Of course it’s not as good, but everybody knows that. That’s not the point. If you want to get rid of the beer belly without giving up beer, this is an acceptable tradeoff.
**************** Comment added after original rating: OK. Mea culpa. I’ve had a couple more bottles, and you’re right. It’s awful. I’d rather keep the beer belly.
Green bottle poured a clear very pale yellow with a small lingeriung white head. Aromas of straw, bread dough and light skunk. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a watery finish. Flavors of light white bread with a crisp watery finish.
Bottle. Holy skunk Batman! Pours a very pale yellow with a head that fades a wee bit faster than the speed of light. Aroma of skunk and acrid grain with a bit of toastiness peeking out. The taste is bitter grassy hops, faint malts, and some skunk in the finish. Thin and watery. The only upside to this beer is that it makes the Shock Top on deck almost seem appealing. Ugh.
This is just a very light version of the regular becks and a thinner body if that is even possible.
6 pack. Fizzing gold, short-lived sudsy top. But let’s face it, you’re not meant to put this beer in a glass. Curry house lager, dish water, toasted cereal and honey aroma. Better flavour with some of the rabbit hutch, hay, breadstick and honey character of it’s bigger brother. Slight bitterness, cereal finish. Palatable low alcohol with intact hop and malt flavours- chilled and from the bottle after a long night’s work/tedium/wood-chopping, even better than palatable. 64 Kcal is astonishing- can see me sinking a few more 6 packs of this in order to rediscover mine. Decent lager, ludicrously underrated.
Its watery and not good. No hops. just grasss and other not so good smelling and tasting stuff..
Drank from 12oz bottle. Skunky aroma. Looks very clear through the bottle. Sour flavor and extremely light. Bitter finish. Average carbonated. Slightly sweet. Thin texture. Light body. Overall very weak beer. Would be great on a hot summer day but falls flat in flavor.
Light straw color; Light body; Aroma and flavor of some yeast, light hops, and grain; Overall, way too bland and watery even for a light beer (but what would you expect with only 64 calories); I like regular Becks - but wtf is this?
Bottle. Holy crap - I’m not saying it displaces Cave Creek Chili Beer as my all time least favorite beer, but it might be next on the list. I don’t think I appreciated the term "skunky" as applied to beer until now - this actually smells like a skunk. For real. Clear pale yellow pour, no head after the initial pour settled. Taste is like carbonated mineral water. This is just gross.
This isn’t the worst tasting light beer Ive had that has been on the less than 99 cal mark, it just has no aroma which isn’t always a bad thing. has a watered down hops taste which is not bad.
drank from 12 fl oz glass bottle, watery bitter taste, mild palette, bland but good carbonation
This is one of the worst light beers Ive had. It has a very bitter taste and is way to carbonated.
12oz bottle poured clear pale yellow with a thin white head. Aromas were almost not present but some muted straw and german malt. Flavor was typical for german malted beer slightly dry and watery. Body was very light and finish was also dry.
Honestly didn’t smell or taste like anything, it was water with a very small detection of alcohol. Not sure of the point because there are other lower alcohol beers out there.
12 oz bottle. Pale-straw hue with no head or lacing. Aroma is of apple juice, while body is of Sprite. The brew definitely has a taste because it differs from water. Quite a disgusting drink. At least I did not buy it.