The Sociable Pilsner

Fresh and fizzy, The Sociable Pilsner is a pale lager offering from Toronto’s COMMON GOOD BEER COMPANY. It’s an effervescent yellow-gold lager with a thick and fluffy white head. At 4.7%, Sociable is sessionable. It comes in sparse but stylish orange 473mL cans.

Sociable has a predictable but comforting grain and grass scent. The flavour is spare, but nice enough, with grainy notes and a modest noble hop bitterness.

Not as robust as classic Czech pilsners or the more formidable of the Ontario versions, Sociable has positioned itself behind its crisp and fizzy mouthfeel more than its flavour. It is a crushable and thirst-quenching lager, but not one that left me feeling thoughtful. A classic “lawnmower” beer, but not the kind of suds that attract effusive adjectives.

Rating: 6.5 out of 10.