Sunday Night Suds - Saranac Festival Pils

 

This week's Sunday Night Suds looks at Saranac's Festival Pils.

As mentioned in a prior SNS, this fall, Saranac continued to roll out new beers, with their 2020 German Roots mix box. This includes long time standard Black Forest (reviewed here https://kosherbeers.blogspot.com/2010/01/sunday-night-suds-saranac-black-forest.html); 1888 Octoberfest (which was introduced in 2017, but never reviewed here) and two new beers for 2020, the the Hoptoberfest IPA (reviewed here http://kosherbeers.blogspot.com/2020/10/sunday-night-suds-saranac-hoptoberfest.html).

The Festival Pils is a no nonsense pilsner and it poured a rich yellow with decent lacing and Saranac's trademark excellent carbonation. 

I tried this beer with lemon chicken and it worked nicely with the savory poultry and pasta. As you would expect from a non-macro brewed pilsner, there is a decent amount of malt and breadiness and the pairing worked specifically because this was not an overly strong flavored brew like a double or porter.

At 5.2% abv the beer is about average for a pilsner and like most pilsners, there is no alcohol taste.

The Festival Pils 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, click you can search on  https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/99/500147/. 

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

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