Jolly Pumpkin Bière de Mars Grand Reserve

Formerly brewed at Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales
Style: Sour Ale
Dexter, Michigan USA

What an amazing treat. This beeris delcious!!! Pours a deep auburn color with small fizzy headup top. Nose breaths bourbon, sourness, cider like notes, cherry, just fantastic. Flavors are dominated by the sour funk, cherry, light fruitiness. And it certainly goes down really easy. A damn fine brew.

12 oz bottle. Deep ruby brown with a slim bubbly head. Nose is a pungent sour apricot with distinct horse stall. I cringed at first sniff but strangely intriguing. A few pricks of carb with a full mouthfeel that becomes vaporous. Taste is very sour cherry skins, lemon juice, oak and cinnamon Red Hots. Quite intense.

12oz bottle thanks to Schroppfy. Pours a deep bloody brown and purple color, soft yet heavy and strong in appearance, almost intimidating. Amazingly vibrant and deep nose, the red wine-scented oak tannins and light note of sweet bourbon hit the nose, followed quickly by an assertive, rich, and deep hit of acidic sour funk. Plums, light char, dry oak tannins, the flavor of mushy red wine grapes, the flavor of old wood, it’s one of the most miraculous things I’ve ever tasted, there’s little doubt. The full-bodied, frothy sourness washes through the entire body, part playing a role of a Flemish Red, but a bigger part going experimental, combining things never before seen together in one beer. Incredible.

Aroma: earthiness, woodiness, sour, some dark fruits
Appearance: muddy brown, very small head
Flavor: oak barrels, wood, minerals, lactic, sourness, sour cherries, dark fruits
Palate: very tart, very sour, prickley at back of throat
Overall: Probably the best beer they make by far!

Hazy dark red-orange pour with a nice tan head. Intense sour aroma. Lots of funk with some grape and apple. Woody and musty. Very sour flavor with intense fruitiness. Creamy finish with some spicy bite and funk. A little bit of sweetness to it. Fantastic! Thanks Ryan!

12 oz. bottle - batch 65; pours flat and dark brown-orange; slight haze against the light; some sour aromas, but more musky, woody and almost like dirty feet; thin body and lots of sour and funk, and also vinegar; bourbon influence not very noticeable and pretty much smoked against the LA Red Poppy; too vinegary for me

(aged 27 months in oak)orange body with not much head.aroma is simply awesome.i pick up lemons,brett,bourbon,melons,and horsey blanket.flavor is dominated by tartness.i then get some lemons,brett,caramel malts,and melons.nice stuff but just a bit to tart for me.

Bottle from ryan. Thanks! Lost my notes on this one, but not sure I’ll have another bottle of it ever so will use this as a place-marker till then. This was tasty. Out of the 15 or so JP beers I have had, they’ve all had some similar qualities but also have very unique attributes that really bring oustanding character to all of Ron’s beers. This had a lot of funk in it. Some oak, mild bourbon, caramel that works very nicely with the funk. This is very faint though. Slight vinergar(y) finish.