Establishment Brewing Company
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About Establishment Brewing Company
We are a band of friends and beer fanatics, united by one common goal: the proliferation of friendship and great beer. Our beers pay homage to old-world brew methods, without being bound by them. And our objective is to craft world-class beers, while never forgetting a beer is only as good as the friends you enjoy it with. Ale to the people.
BREWERY & TAPROOM LOCATION
Our brewery & taproom is located in Calgary's Barley Belt at: 4407 1 Street SE.
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Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Irrational Things - Brewed In Calgary AB
We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: Jam Rock - Brewed In Calgary AB
A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
Link Back: Left My Wallet In El Segundo - Brewed In Calgary AB
Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Mellow Gold - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: My Best Friend’s Girl - Brewed In Calgary AB
Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Part-Time Model - Brewed In Calgary AB
Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pattern of Mind - Brewed In Calgary AB
German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
Link Back: PilsGNAR - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Pump Up the Jam - Brewed In Calgary AB
This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
Link Back: Sky Rocket VI - Brewed In Calgary AB
A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Super Fusion - Brewed In Calgary AB
There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Autobahn - Brewed In Calgary AB
By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
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An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
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Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
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Imperial Sour with Passionfruit, Apricot, Orange Zest, and Dry Hops
All good things must come to an end, but the best ones go out with a bang, and our next beer is no exception. This grand, canned culmination of the LSD series is the aptly titled In The Sky With Diamonds. We’ve taken the greatest hits from the previous beers in the series and remastered them to bring you this super deluxe edition.
This beer was born in the deeply saturated overlapping portion of the Venn diagram depicting Tangerine Trees, Marmalade Skies, Cellophane Flowers, and Kaleidoscope Eyes. We took passionfruit, apricot, orange zest, and dry-hopped the whole equation to high heaven. It’s as fruity as you’d expect, tart as you like, and far more powerful than your palate would have you believe.
We wonder which naming convention will follow…We hope you have enjoyed the show.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Imperial New England IPA with Phantasm.
Phantasm is an experimental grape derived magic dust that helps boost hop aroma and flavour by providing additional thiols, a strong aromatic compound to the beer. Hops themselves already have thiols, Phantasm helps boost them.
If we told you we were going to use freeze-dried Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skin in our next Imperial New England IPA, would you accuse us of Irrational Things? Because we’d plead guilty. We’re also guilty of being the first Alberta brewery to get our hands on this magic dust—we don’t mean to brag, it came up organically!
This experimental product goes by the name Phantasm, which is fitting since it’s basically our phantasy. While still in its infancy, Phantasm lets select breweries dabble in their rad science, and we’re so pumped they consider us worthy. By harnessing the power of this powder’s mighty thiols, we synergistically supercharged the already bountiful hops typical of the style.
The human sniffer is super sensitive to thiols, so by inviting them to the party at the active fermentation phase, we were able to crank the tropical notes to a veritable boom. We wouldn’t go so far as to call Phantasm performance-enhancing drugs for hops, but it’s like a performance-enhancing drug for hops! Cheers, mates.
Malt: 2 Row, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat, Malted Wheat, Chit Malt
Hops: Galaxy, Equanot, Azacca, Citra Incognito, Mosaic Cryo
Yeast: Escarpment Labs Foggy London
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
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We jammed an irresponsible amount of Blackberry into this beer. Jam Rock pours a bright magenta/fuchsia, with a brilliant pink head. Jam-like berry, layered with gentle vanilla creates a dessert-like experience and a tart finish leads to the next sip.
Welcome to Jam Rock!
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
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A historical style with a modern twist, an oak smoked sour beer with Pineapple. Tart like a Gose, this Lichtenhainer brings a fire all its own in the form of smoke.
Unlike Bamberg's smoky Rauchbier, the smoke on this other historical German style is from oak, not beechwood. This subtle difference puts this palette-pleaser more in the realm of grilled pineapple and less that of hot ham/savory bacon.
Hope you enjoy drinking it as much as we loved making it.
Style: Historical Beer - Lichtenhainer
ABV: 4.7% IBU: 0
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Next in the series of lagers comes this highly quaffable light German lager, Mellow Gold.
Continental Pilsner malt is the show stopper here, bringing aromas of fresh bread, with a touch of German hops to balance and provide a very light bitterness in the soft, malty finish.
A refined beer as approachable as it is delicate, this is a sessionable beer with endless appeal!
Style: Lager - Helles
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
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Our take on a classic style, a refreshing combination of grainy pilsner malt, light apple/pear esters, and subdued hops.
Style: Kölsch
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 0
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Our take on a NZ style Pilsner. Showcasing Nelson Sauvin hop, with a supporting cast of Citra.
This beer style is typically less bitter and crisp than a German Pils, with a focus on delicately hopped tropical/citrus/gooseberry notes. In contrast to a German Pils whose hop profile leans toward a more classic herbal/floral/spicy.
Base malt shines through, cracker like: a blend of local pilsner and 2 row.
Style: Pilsner - Other
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
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Right off the hop, we’ve been exclusively using Foggy London for all our hazy pops. But something else we’ve always done is experiment and the time was ripe for us to relinquish a modicum of control when it comes to the yeast variable. And so, today’s the day we launch our first foray into multi-yeast IPAs!
We tapped two of our favourite yeasts to engage in a bit of a team lift on the fermentation front: Foggy London, our old faithful, and Thiol Libre, our new flame out of @escarpmentlabs. This is our 3rd IPA in a row using Thiol Libre, mind you—so we guess you could call it a bit of a pattern, one with a highly tropical motif.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
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German style Pilsner - Floral and spicy noble hops lead the charge, supported by dough/bread like Pils malt. A balanced, drinkable style that has stood the test of time, for good reasons. Prost, my dudes!
Style: Pilsner - German
ABV: 5.6% IBU: 0
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Imperial Sour with Raspberries, Blackberries and Vanilla
Get up! This is our 500th (!) batch of beer. To celebrate and make the milestone extra sticky, we remixed our ride-or-die sour: Jam Rock. We’ve been pumping out Jam Rock since (almost) day one—and it’s long become both a fam and fan favourite—but more is more, so we pumped things up.
First, We Pumped Up The Jam literally by adding raspberries to the blackberries, then we cranked up the ABV to really get the party going on the dance floor. The result is a brew that elevates everything you love about Jam Rock: a jammy fruit pucker, a subtle vanilla kiss, and a breathtaking jewel tone worth pouring the contents of your can into a glass for.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8% IBU: 0
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This sixth iteration unseats SRIII as the most potent of our starbound flavour vessels.
For this mission, our objective was to explore early fermentation dry hopping, which makes it a bit of a throwback to SRII. This approach allows the free geraniol to biotransform into citronellol - quick-shifting the flavour from floral to fruity.
We also changed things up by reverting back to a more unassuming malt base. The light colour and flavour of Pilsner malt lets the hops really sing. After all, hops are the name of the Sky Rocket game - Mosaic and El Dorado to name a couple.
This Sky Rocket's in flight, so wet your sliiiiiide whistle.
Style: IPA - New England / Hazy
ABV: 7.3% IBU: 0
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A super amount of tropical Guava fuse with sourness, and a balancing wheat finish. Catharina Sour is a kettle sour style from South America, that spawned from fusion of home-brewers' and pro-brewers' ideas. Kind of up our alley! Think of it as a stronger Berliner Weisse re-fermented with a boat load of tropical fruit.
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 0
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There’s nothing imaginary about this beer, and you don’t even have to become a member of the secret society of cloudmakers to take part in a portion of these fine droplets. In this case, a cloud is a powerful thing. Prepare yourself for an unstoppably quenchable whirlwind of papaya, pineapple, honeydew, and orange marmalade - all elevated by a cheeky note of cannabis. Meteorologically speaking, this brew is more akin to a downpour than a sprinkle—as is the case with all our white can IPAs.
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, HBC 586, Idaho 7, Bravo
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 8.4% IBU: 0
Munich Dunkel, 5.2% ABV
With notes of roasty, toasty bread crust, this beer is the hearty manifestation of surprisingly delicate brewing techniques.
- Malt: German Dark Munich, German Pilsner
- Yeast: Escarpment Laboratories ISAR Lager
- Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittlefruh
- Toast: We’d like to propose one.
Style: Lager - Munich Dunkel
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 0
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By the power of two experimental brewing products combined, we bring you this thiol-liberated Imperial New England IPA. Phantasm’s dust is working its hopped-up magic, and Escarpment Lab’s thiol-enhanced yeast liberates even more tropical fruitiness for a dreamy effect that’s hard to summarize.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 0
Link Back: Dream Synopsis - Brewed In Calgary AB
An robust porter with flavours of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, bread crust and floral hops. It's a Robust Porter, and that's why it's called Fat Sherpa. Get it? >.< We hope so.
Style: Porter - American
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0
Link Back: Fat Sherpa - Brewed In Calgary AB
Imperial New England, Double dry-hopped: Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere, Cryo Simcoe.
Seems soft, slaps hard. Like a wet pool noodle.
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 8.2% IBU: 0
Link Back: Float Along - Brewed In Calgary AB