Jolly Pumpkin Bam Noire

Brewed by Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales
Style: Saison
Dexter, Michigan USA

eccezzionale! colore scuro con sfumature rossastre.. schiuma bianca... al naso è brettata e leggermente tostata con punte fruttate... segue un evoluzione del gusto che parte da un maltato leggero per arrivare a note di confettura di prugna frutta secca... acidità leggerissima....... ottima!

750ml bottle, batch #340/341, from green’s in columbia. pours like freshly tapped rootbeer with a dark brown body topped by a thick, creamy light beige head and sticky lacing. aroma is very nice with earthy, brett funk, mild barnyard, yeast, belgian spice, and mild tart fruit notes of lemon, red grape, and pear. flavor is damn tasty as well with tart notes of red grape, vinegar, and lemon peel up front backed by notes of soil, cedar wood, and sweet hints of toffee, raisin, and chocolate. palate is medium bodied, dry, and highly carbonated with just enough tartness to remind you it’s a saision. overall, another tasty brew from jolly pumpkin.

I have had this beer numerous times since it has come out. I think I even have the first batch tucked away somewhere. This rating is for batch 262, 263 and despite Jolly Pumpkin removing their bottle log I believe this is over 2 years old through other ratings. The cap pops and the foam of the beer slowly creeps up the neck. The beer obviously pours with a large, thick, off white head that just grows inside my glass. Super sticky and can never fade away. The color of the beer is almost black but its really just a very dark brown, there is a bit of a reddish hue in the color as well.
What I like about the beer:
The low alcohol yet so much beer.
Most of the regular JP funk is there but it seems the age has turned the brett into cherry-pie-filling .
No dark and roast malt flavors mixed with lactic qualities, which is not my thing.
What can be improved: Just seems a bit empty at the end of the flavor, the flavor is a bit striped.
Overall: I like the quaffable aspect, love the brett complexity as it has aged but needs other characteristics from the base Saison (pre-bugs).
750mL capped bottle in a long stemmed Cantillon red-wine-type glass.

Dark Brown. Lasting thick, creamy head. Aroma: Vinigar, fruits. Flavor: Same. Bitter finish. I just don’t like most Saison beers. Hey, "To Each thier own" said the old lady as she kissed the cow!

piuttosto scura buona schiuma discreta persitenza naso acidulo bretta note tosatate leggero luppolo un po di agrumato in bocca buona aciudità bretta legno malto tostato castagno non molto amara piuttosto secca non molto corpo

Dark caramel brown with big, foamy tan head / Sour nose of orchard fruit, roast barley, and barnyard funk / Light to medium body, soft carbonation a touch watery, but with good balance and long, dry, somewhat bitter, finish / Flavors of cocoa, apples, plums, toasted raisins, chrysanthemums, straw, and a good dose of barnyard funk / Not the best batch from JP, but darn good.

750 in de Koninck glass. Hazy brown with frothy ecru head. Delightful pineapple, leather, and dusty nose. Flavor does not deliver on the promise of the aroma; it’s thin and mostly featureless except for some bitter, chemical tones in the aftertaste. Incredibly dry but no significant sourness. This would likely be best served blended with an underattenuated barleywine....

12 oz shared by drew. Pours a nice fairly clear dark reddish brown, a decent offwhite head layer. That laces ok. Aromas are some light fruity esters underneath, a touch of pear and banana, with a faint chocolate and darker roast feel, light funk seems fairly there. Initial is fairly tart, a light cocoa underneath taken over by brett, sour tartness of citrus fruit and sligt barnyard, more tart though. Light cocoa, coffee, sweet brown sugar. Light, a fairly tart feel. Finish is decent.