Heineken Light is delicious - do you agree?

Question

I've been drinking Coor Light for 16 years and my friend said you have to try Heineken Light. It's nothing like regular Heineken which is bitter and leaves an after taste on your tongue. Put it in a cooler under ice and when you reach thru dat ice to get one you will be rewarded with a tasty treat. haha!! What have people that tried it think?

Answer 1

Yes! It definitely doesn't have the after taste that the regular kind does. I love it.

Answer 2

I run a low carb site so I've tried pretty much every light beer on the market. Also, when I was in college I drank mostly Heineken. I in fact have a bottle of Heineken Light here by me while I type this.

First off, this has 6.8g of carbs so it's not really "very low carb" compared to many other beers on the market. So you have to keep in mind that you're not saving a ton of carbs by drinking this. You could go much lower with other options on the market. That being said, it is less than regular Heineken so you could argue that if you were going to drink the regular stuff, at least you're saving yourself a bit by drinking this one.

If you had a bitter Heineken you probably had a *skunked* Heineken. In fact some studies show that something like half of all Heineken drunk in the US is skunked and that some people have gotten used to this flavor and think it's "normal". Try going to Europe sometime and drinking a Heineken there and see what it tastes like :) Did you know a beer will skunk in under 10 minutes if it's exposed to sunlight? They even tried using the green bottles which helps somewhat, but still won't prevent skunking.

So I wouldn't bash Heineken too quickly, it is very tasty when it is fresh.

On the other hand go to Busch Gardens sometime and take their beer course - it's only an hour or two and is a ton of fun. You'll find out that hops - a key part of beermaking - *are* bitter so a certain normal flavor in a beer should be a tang of bitterness. All properly made beers have that tang, because they contain hops. So another question might be if you're reacting to the skunkiness of a bad beer - or if you just don't like most beers in general because you don't like the natural taste of hops.

The colder you drink the beer (i.e. straight from an ice barrel) the less flavor you get, so you wouldn't taste the bitter flavor or much of anything else :) If you're going to do that, I'd go for the lowest carb beer you can find since at that point it's not going to taste much different, and you might as well not deal with the extra carbs you are getting in the Heineken Light. If you're going to drink it at a more regular beer temperature then it's about the flavor you enjoy. If you like Heineken Light more than the other lower carb beers, then have at it :)

Lisa Shea
LowCarb.BellaOnline.Com

Answer 3

no its tastes like heineken with some tap water poured in. im not a big heineken fan but ill take the special dark if i do drink it or the regular is decent if its out of the keg can

Answer 4

nicely if we are speaking mild beers then you definitely would besides drink lavatory water. It tastes an same and that is 0 energy. you may want to also capture a body-slimming bout of Giardia when you're fortunate. so a procedures because the familiar beers bypass, I even do not have any determination between both. Sorry.

Answer 5

I agree. But I also believe Heineken to be delicious.

Answer 6

No, I do not agree. You should not drink alcohol. Heineken especially tests all of its' alchohol on animals and you should not support such a cruel company.

Answer 7

If I had to imagine what cow piss tastes like, I'd say Heineken Light. Regular Heineken for me please! Better yet, Corona!

Answer 8

god no. the only good beer in a green bottle is grolsch.

Answer 9

dont drink beer

Answer 10

Beer of ANY KIND tastes TERRIBLE!!! YUCK'O. NASTY