What will a light beer taste like?

What will a light beer taste like?

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Light beers do not have much in the way of dark malt presence. They are brewed using very pale colored malts - the malts that provide most of the sugars for fermentation. They will be light in color, they may have a honeyed note and be generally quite sweet. Also, because they are so neutral in many respects, they allow hops and other flavors from fermentation at the brewery to come through and take over the beer. A pale beer may have a general light, sweet, biscuity character, but would be a good showcase also for hops and the characteristics that hops bring to a beer, such as the degree of pepper flavor, citrus flavors and bitterness.