Heineken Premium Light

Brewed in the same high quality tradition as the original Heineken, but lighter in taste and with fewer calories and carbohydrates.

Being introduced in four select US markets beginning in June 2005: Phoenix, Arizona; Dallas, Texas; Tampa, Florida; and Providence, Rhode Island.

In 2013 the brand was re-designed and Cascade hop was added.

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Zoeterwoude, Netherlands

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1.2 I have bought this wonderful can, a five stars of taste, so five stars that they already put this beer at 50% discount at the coop, in Perrelet, Prilly. I have tried this beer today, at home, before the meal, I just tried a bit, the rest served to cook my meat, knowing which kind a product, I was expected. They say on the can that it is a wonderful product, they made this beer with love. It is just a big lie and it is a fucking industrial product, just good to put that to give food for your worms in the garden. The body is yellow and gold, carbonation lower than usual, thin and white foam. The taste is really basical, boring, boring and boring, a bit malty, with few hop and watery, few alcool and no taste, no more to say about this poor product.

1.5 330ml bottle at Eden Park, poured into a plastic cup. Pours sickly pale with a big white head. Lemon, grass, bit of cheese, plenty of weird savoury stuff, a fair bit of carbonated water stuff. Pretty bad.

1.8 Pours yellow, with white head. Taste like most light beers, maybe a touch better. At least this bottle isn't skunky, which is a problem I often have had with Heineken, at least I did 25 years ago when I drank one once in a while.

1.4 Urine yellow. Head evaporates instantaneously. Aroma is sweet malt. Taste is sweet malt and some barley. Glad I’m pouring this thing on the turkey.

3.5 Highly crushable day drinking beer for when you don't want to get buzzed quick or fatigue your palate with a session IPA. It drinks great, honestly.

1.4 apperance cristal clear almost no foam aroma very weak a little perfume alcohol disappear very fast taste very light sweetness, no bitter, very close to water

1.3 Dostałem od ojca za free więc piję. Piję więc oceniam. Mamo, tato wolę wodę.

1.5 Slomkowe, klarowne piwo o średniej pianie, która dość szybko redukuje się do zera. Aromat i smak nikly słodowy i do tego z nutą chemiczną. Goryczka nawet wyrazna, ale niestety chemiczna, sztuczna. Ogólnie słabe piwo bez smaku i aromatu.

1.5 Can by the pool of the Bellagio in Vegas, which is really the only saving grace for this. Corny with far less hop character than the original version. Not good at all.

1.4 Gulbrun klar med h�yt hvitt skum. Lukter papir og korn. Sv�rt lett. Noe metallisk bitterhet. Kort

1.7 Can. It pours clear yellow with a white head. Light hoppy and light pale malty aroma. Some grain. Waterish palate. The flavor is mild malty and faint hops. No real off notes but not much of a beer.

2.4 can found in rethymo, crete. clear yellow, small white head. very mild aroma, notes of euro hops and faint malts. flavor is faint malts, mineral water. dry easy drinking quality industrial beer, in a mineral water flavored version. take it if you can’t decide between beer and sparkling water, it tastes like half and half.

1.0 New bad beer, lower quality, lower aroma, lower taste. wodniste piwo jaśniutkie z minimalna pianka, nawet jako bezalkoholowe wypada kiepsko. W dodatku jest cos co nienawidzę w przemyslowych piwach globalnych, a mianowicie kukurydza. sprawia wrazenie jakby z puszki ten syrop z kukurydzy rozmieszać z woda z kranu. Nawet w upaly potrafi zepsuc nastrój. Odradzam.

2.7 Bottle 0.5 l, Fresh Market, Wrocław, Poland. Złote piwo o cienkiej pianie i świeżym, słodowym zapachu. W smaku lekko wodniste, orzeźwiające, słodowe z bardzo lekką goryczką na finiszu.

2.5 Barwa zlota w strone slomkowa, piana gesta, szybko znika. Aromat slodowy, slaby. W smaku rozwodniony lager koncerniak. Nie jest najgorsze mimo ze puste.

0.7 Appearance/Aroma/Taste/Palate/Overall: 1/1/2/1/2. 330mL bottle into an oversized wine glass. 3.3% ABV. Got a six pack for free after a money back guarantee from Heineken. Appearance: Pale golden. Fizzy but cannot maintain a head (even with a huge pour). Surprisingly manages a ring which laces a little. Aroma: Hard to detect. Skunk and a bit of macro lager malt. Taste: Skunk, traces of slightly sweet malt. Length is tiny. Aftertaste is very slight lemony with malt, but not worth thinking about. Mouthfeel: Water thin body. Overcarbonated, a cheap attempt at trying to compensate for everything else. Overall: I cannot believe Dan Murphy’s sells this junk for $44 a carton. So much for ’full bodied, fresh and clean taste, with a floral, fruity aroma from the addition of Cascade hops.’ A tragedy for beer.

2.5 Not much to say about this brew. No aroma, watery taste. Nothing. It should be forbidden. A drink for youngsters to mix with vodka and drugs. Awfull.

3.6 Picked up a carton of these golds for $20 out the door. Not fucken bad for 384 ounces of piss. Sixteen ounce can af. Poors yellow af. Carbed. Cold. Actually a nice mild hop aroma in this one. It’s pretty dang dry for a light brew as compared to other American loggers. It’s clean too. Very light in flavour, almost sparkling water ish w/a bit of nice grassy hops. Extremely light body makes this can world class for chugs.

1.4 The smell is mostly absent, a bit malty, with a little dose of skunk. Bright and clear like a sunrise, but the foam lasts shorter than twilight at the equator. And about the taste... having sex in a canoe. I mean, there are no flaws in its taste, but it’s water-like tasteless. Drinkable, but that’s not what i drink beer for.

2.2 Appearance: Yellow golden, crystal clear. Some fizzy white head, short lived. Aroma: Light malt, grains. Taste: Light malt, light hops, grains. Watery. Bought: Coop give-away, 150 ml can, CHF 0.00 Info: 26/5-2017, BB: 31/3-2018

2.7 Butelka. Aromat słodowy, praktycznie żaden. W smaku blisko smaku wody. Jak na piwo niskoalkoholowe nawet dobre.

1.3 Barwa złota, piana skąpa. Aromat nikły, trochę ziarna i kukurydzy suchej. W smaku wodniste, niska tępa goryczka, posmak stęchły.

4.5 Very balanced taste. Ice Cold it tasted best. Drank it at an Apero. I did not expect to get such a good light beer from Heineken. However, great alternative to Wine :) Beery Greetings, Hans

1.2 A small can from Simple Mart down the road. Doesn’t taste of much, alright if you’re driving. Better than tap water I suppose. [Old notes].

2.7 Slightly malt sweet, and a fair amount of citrus. Not too shabby at all, probably prefer it to regular Heineken.

1.3 330 ml bottle into lager glass. Green bottle but not skunky. Slight sweet doughy nose. Pale amber beer with zero head. A few bubbles. Watery, tastes like plasticine and pepper. Finish is weak lemon cordial. Awful, really awful.

1.1 Bottle. Best thing about this one is it’s appearance - clear gold, frothy white head, and nice carbonation. The aroma and flavor was skinny malt. Thin bodied. Not enjoyable.

1.3 311016. I picked up this bottle at Dan Murphy’s and I had very minimal expectations for it. What I got was what I expected to get and that was nothing that made me go "okay this is a good beer". Very pale looking in the glass with just enough colour so as not to be confused with a glass of water. Soapy spray of bubbles across the top and a skunky aroma that reeks of dirty wet socks. When the beer passes the lips there is an instant face screw up caused by the flavour, and I use that word loosely. I am sure there are people out there that think that this is the greatest beer on the planet (I once thought that about Corona) but not me. Earlier Rating: 3/3/2012 Total Score: 1.7 330ml bottle. This is a very clear amber coloured beer with a minimalistic white head that stays for a while and disappears. Smells like normal Heinekin, no surprise there. Very horrid flavour that puckers the mouth.

2.0 Bottle into a stemmed glass. Very similar taste to Heineken - but then I haven’t had one of those for more than a year - so I could be corrected. One of the clearest, brightest looking beers I’ve had for a while (is is possible to be too clear?), but the head was just a ring when I poured it and didn’t lace either. Almost no bubbles (again - super clear and bright), yet enough carbonation when drinking. Taste was OK, but simple - no complexity and almost forgettable once you swallowed it. Zero palate length, and a little bit cleansing, but nothing to write home about. I found it inoffensive, but didn’t want any of the rest. The remaining 5 in the six pack will go to my son who likes that bland sort of thing. P.S. Whilst not a fan, it has to be one of the better mid strength MACRO beers, I’ve had - didn’t taste like it had been watered down with soda water as many of the others do. But no where near as good as a Little Creatures Rogers.

1.7 BB 30-06-2017. Poured a crystal clear pale golden yellow colour with a one- to two-finger bright white foamy head that retained well and laced OK. Carbonation high, lively and medium to coarse. Aroma of malt and little else; like a typical lager and much like the full strength version. Taste subtly of light citrus and very low levels of malt but quite metallic. Light body bordering on watery. Smooth and bland.