Sunday Night Suds - Saranac Blood Orange Wheat

This week's Sunday Night Suds looks at Saranac Blood Orange Wheat.

The Saranac Blood Orange Wheat is one of the four brews contained in the 12 Beers of Summer mix box. This also included the new Backpacker Pils, Suncatcher Ale and last year's Summer Haze IPA (reviewed here https://kosherbeers.blogspot.com/2019/08/sunday-night-suds-saranac-summer-haze.html).

So new that it does not yet have a Beer Advocate page, the Saranac Blood Orange Wheat is a lightlly flavored wheat beer. The Saranac website indicates that this is a low calorie wheat beer, which meshes with my impression when I drank these over the last two Shabboses. The beer has some citrus, but there was a bit of flavoring which was clearly not from the hops. The flavor did not seem artificial, nor was it super strong, but that also might be why I felt like the beer was less than satisfying.

At 4.9% abv this `beer was a a bit mild for an American Wheat beer, but again it was intended to be a light beer, so that is to be expected.

I have not seen this beer sold in anything but the 12 Beers of Summer Box and I am unaware of this beer being sold in six or twelve packs, so if you want this beer you need to pick up the mix box.

The Blood Orange Wheat is under the Kosher Supervision of the Va'ad of Detroit as is every other beer produced at the Matt Brewery plant in Utica, NY. Keep in mind, Saranac brews some varieties off site, so check the cans/bottles for kosher certification from the Va'ad of Detroit.

To see what the experts on Beer Advocate think about the brew, search for it on https://www.beeradvocate.com at some point in the next month as it was not reviewed as of today.

As always, please remember to drink responsibly and to never waste good beer unless there is no designated driver.

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