Originally Posted by Kathrin
Silly question: What exactly does "lite beer" mean? Beer without (or with little) alcohol, or low calory beer with artificial substitutes instead of the normal ingredients?
By American definition, it usually means low calorie beer. By my (beer loving biased)opinion, it refers to a beer devoid of beer flavor, made with multiple artificial ingredients, has to be drunk ice cold to stun the taste buds. Most also tend to have lower alcohol content.
Give me a Rheinheitsgebot brewed beer anytime. The closest Deutsche equivilant (and this is still a long shot) would probably be a Kolschbier, or maybe a lower hopped Pils.