Scotland’s Jump Ship Brewing is launching a fruity alcohol-free beer, Chuckleberry Sour, the result of wild fermentation, designed as a summer refresher.
Brewery founder Sonja Mitchell has been producing alcohol-free beer for five years, winning a range of awards for her core and special-release brews.
“Creating this sour alcohol-free beer has been one of our trickiest beers to brew to date,” said Sonja. “A classic sour beer is created with wild fermentation, creating really complex tangy flavours. We let the lactobacillus go wild with our berries for a couple of weeks, creating a crazy, sherbety mix, which we added into the main brew.
“All berries used in the fruity mix have been grown on UK farms and meddled to create a gluten-free and vegan summer serve. Chuckleberries are a hybrid of jostaberry, gooseberry, and redcurrant, which is sweet and juicy with a tartness from the blackcurrants for a refreshing beer.”
Jump Ship Brewing has a core range of four beers, from lager to IPA. In 2021, its Yardarm lager won best alcohol-free lager in the world at the World Beer Awards.
The brewery has a strong charitable focus at its heart, with a commitment from the outset to donate at least 10% of its profits to a variety of charities, which are nominated by Jump Ship’s customers, or ‘ship mates’ as they are described.
This new product launch comes ahead of the new brewery, which will be based at Rosemain Steadings just outside Pathhead, in Midlothian, and open this summer.
