3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20Poured a two finger, frothy head. Quite carbonated. Cloudy golden with a light body. Tart,sour citrus notes with a little bit of spice. Short finish due to the dry hops. Tasty and refreshing.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
A great farmhouse ale. A bit sour, quite funky, and definitely light and refreshing. Delicious if you enjoy the style.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours a hazy golden color with a very thick white head. Nose has some sour and some nice farmhouse funk to it. Taste is a little sour, but has a crisp bite to it. Interesting drink.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Hazy bright pale golden with a creamy white head. Cidery aroma with some ripe apples. Esthery phenolic flavor with the faintest malt touch. light palate dry and refreshing.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(Bottle) Very fruity and spicy aroma of apples and yeast. Very fruity taste with hints of citrus, spices and heather. Tastes quite a lot like cider. Dry, rough and quite short aftertaste. A different beer!
1.7 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 6/20
From a 750 ml bottle (bottled 12-28-10) into a snifter. It looks like unfiltered apple cider, but with a fluffy, off-white head. About 1.5cm of sediment-loaded liquid was left in the bottle.
Smell: Wild yeast with a bit of a brett. Slightly sour and floral.
Taste: mild for style, with lingering Brett and wild yeast, leather, earthy hops and some lemon. Mildly sour and fruity.
M; Light body; semi-dry; tart.
O: rather mild flavor; not a bad thing for the Brett component. Bretty/earthy/funky beers your kind of thing? ... then this one’s for you.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at home. Pours a hazy old gold colour with a white medium head. Fruity and sour aroma of hay, rowanberries, vinegar, Belgian yeast and oak. Lots of the same in the flavour with the addition of citrus, and feels venous. Sour and fresh, and with a dry ending. Is rich and slick in the mouth, and has a light bitterness. Delicious and fresh, and good with food.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
On tap a Jolly Pumpkin. Smells a bit like wet blanket/urine/funk but I cant say I don’t like it. Tastes of a farm.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 10/20
Draught at Jolly Ann Arbor. Cloudy yellow orange pour. Smells like urea. Tastes like a farm. Bleh
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Aroma: grapefruit, funky brett, lemon, dusty straw,
Palate: light body
Flavor: dusty straw, lemon, spice, medium bitter and dry finish.
Comment: Good complexity.
5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
Editing my rating with a 2yr old bottle. And holy hell get one of these and forget about it for a good while. All the better qualities of sour beer, and far less of the odd ones. Compared to Oro, a Jolly that starts very sour without the age, and has won ’best of’ for its style.. the 2yr Bam blew away a 1yr Oro drank on the same night (which is incredible in its own right). Seemingly freshly extra tart and expanding on the tongue, with perfect aggression against the taste buds and wonderful, fluid mellowing as it slides over the palate and into a grin-inspiring aftertaste. Bam was one I wasn’t sure would age so incredibly (particularly in comparison to other Jollys you KNOW will age well). But damn, one of the better beers I’ve drank in a good bit. I’ll be grabbin up a few more specifically to age. In truth: I would not give a fresh Bam nearly this high of a rating (probably closer to a 4)... but with age comes grace, wisdom, and knowledge. Or something like that.
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