JumpShip

Beer

Back to drinks
Chuckleberry Sour
Beergose

Chuckleberry Sour

A Shore Leave fruited sour brewed with chuckleberries — a hybrid of redcurrant, gooseberry, and jostaberry — plus blackcurrants for colour, fermenting to a vivid pink pour.

About This Drink

The Shore Leave series keeps finding interesting fruit to work with. Chuckleberries are a hybrid of three berries: redcurrant, gooseberry, and jostaberry. They're not widely known outside soft fruit circles — they look like an oversized blackcurrant and carry a rounded berry flavour that's not quite any one thing. JumpShip adds blackcurrants alongside them, primarily for colour, which takes the beer from pale pink to something considerably more vivid. To get the sourness right, JumpShip uses lactobacillus fermentation for around two weeks before blending the sour into the main brew. It's a more involved process than adding fruit to a standard base, but the result is a sour that tastes genuinely fermented rather than flavoured. Tart and tangy throughout, with the berries coming across as fresh rather than jammy. At 76 calories per 330ml can with 3g of sugar, it sits at the richer end of the JumpShip range calorie-wise. Gluten-free and vegan.

Key Specs

Per 100ml

Calories
23 kcal
Sugar
0.9g

Dietary

VEGANGLUTEN-FREE

Tasting Notes

Taste

TART AND TANGY ROUNDED BERRY FLAVOUR FROM CHUCKLEBERRIES; FRESH RATHER THAN JAMMY WITH CLEAN ACIDIC FINISH

Aroma

RIPE MIXED BERRY WITH REDCURRANT AND GOOSEBERRY NOTES; FRESH AND LIGHTLY TART

Character

Appearance
VIVID PINK WITH A WHITE HEAD

Production

Fruited sour using lactobacillus fermentation for approximately two weeks; chuckleberries and blackcurrants added to the brew

More from JumpShip

Available at

Key Specs

Per 100ml

Calories
23 kcal
Sugar
0.9g

Dietary

VEGANGLUTEN-FREE

Tasting Notes

Taste

TART AND TANGY ROUNDED BERRY FLAVOUR FROM CHUCKLEBERRIES; FRESH RATHER THAN JAMMY WITH CLEAN ACIDIC FINISH

Aroma

RIPE MIXED BERRY WITH REDCURRANT AND GOOSEBERRY NOTES; FRESH AND LIGHTLY TART

Character

Appearance
VIVID PINK WITH A WHITE HEAD

Production

Fruited sour using lactobacillus fermentation for approximately two weeks; chuckleberries and blackcurrants added to the brew