The Establishment Brewing Company has re-released Pump Up The Jam, an Imperial Sour the brewery counts among its cult classics. This run, the brewery says, comes with a record-breaking avalanche of raspberry and blackberry.
According to The Establishment, the beer carries layers of smoothie and sorbet character, with a vanilla backbone meant to keep the tartness from taking over. The listed flavor notes - berry cheesecake, fruit gushers, vanilla wafers - lean deliberately toward dessert rather than a straight fruited sour, and at 8.0 percent ABV the beer has enough body to carry that much fruit without turning thin or one-note. Bringing a beer back as a "cult classic" rather than introducing it cold also says something: this is a recipe with a track record at the brewery, not a first attempt.
Pump Up The Jam is available now through the brewery's online shop and at its Calgary taproom.
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