Sunday Night Suds - Saranac Ruby Red Ale

This week's pre-Purim Sunday Night Suds looks at Saranac Ruby Red Ale.

Although its been a bit too hard find, Saranac has released a new Spring Beers mix box for 2020. This box contains four beers (as they always do) but only one repeat - the Polar Haze IPA (reviewed here https://kosherbeers.blogspot.com/2019/03/sunday-night-suds-saranac-polar-haze-ipa.html) and that beer was only introduced last year. The new beers are Bee Catcher, a honey ale, Pollinator Pils (obviously a pilsner) and the Ruby Red Ale.

The Ruby Red Ale is juice infused and it is fairly obvious that the taste is coming from the grapefruit and not from the hops. There is a wheat ale base to the beer (although the gurus at BA call it an American Amber/Red Ale) but its a very mild base. I am sure that there are some hops in the brew (beyond the obvious reasons) and there is some hop bite. But mostly this is a juice beer, the kind that you can give to someone who prefers alcopop at your Purim Seudah. This beer is a bit light on the alcohol at 4.9% abv, but even that seems to be a bit on the high side.  

I have not seen this beer sold in anything but the 12 Beers of Spring 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 Ruby Red Ale 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, please follow this link https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/99/468324.

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

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