Jolly Pumpkin La Roja

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

Sour cherry and grape aroma. The pour was a deep amber with a tan head. Flavors of sour fruit, slight sweetness at the start that faded at swallow. Over time the bitterness increased. Fruit flavors of pear, slight banana, cherry.

Bottle- I thought I already rated this, because I had this so many times, and then I realized I did not enter my ratings, and my notes are not here, so now I open my only bottle. Obtained this 2 years ago in Michigan. Pours just a slight hazed amber with a thin beige cap. Nose of fruit (apple, plums, cherries) and lots of yeast with floral spices and some rye bread with a bit of booze. Flavour profile is full of cherries and yeast with good rose petal floral hopiness. Wood and bretty funk as well. I love the finish of these beers. Quite yeasty and funky, but refreshing and always leading me to want more.

Pours amber with minimal head - and smells like apple cider. Strong apple flavors in this beer. First taste, it tastes more like a Chardonnay than a beer. A little hard to get used to, as this is my first sour ale. Strangely refreshing, however. SECOND ANALYSIS: I love this beer! Now that I’ve made room for some sours in my tasteocracy - this beer is amazing. Perfect "starter" sour. Full of nice oak flavors, slight brett flavor and sour, but not overly so.

750 ml bottle. Pours a clear amber with a medium sized foamy beige head. Aroma of rotting wood, basement funk, cherries and other dark fruit. Taste is pleasantly sour with a wet oak presence and hints of cherry and sour apple.

750 ml bottle, shared with my lovely girlfriend ove a picnic dinner in the park. Pour a redish amber with a nice fruity nose. flavor was tart fruity witha big of spice. very well balenced and drinkable. yum.

an nice cherry sour ale. The acidity was a bit flatter than I was expecting and hoping, and overall, it needed a bit more sharpness. That said, a very drinkable and accessible beer in this catagory.

Botle. Dark amber brown pour with a thick head. Sour smell of fruit and wood. Sour taste of fruit and yeast. Not bad

(750 ml bottle from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/maine/portland/ target=blank>Downeast Beverage Co., cellared for 10 mos. after purchase) Pours cloudy dark amberish-brown with two fingers of rather thick and sturdy-looking biege head that slowly recedes to about 1/8" and stays. Aroma is sourness with some wood. Mouthfeel is fairly smooth, lightly pebbly and a medium amount of heft. Thick rather sturdy rings of lacing. Flavor is basically just sour and moderated somewhat by wood. Wood doesn’t seem like oak. Getting a briney pickle juice flavor as well - could this have been in an old pickle barrel? Also getting flavor like a yeasty coating from the inside of the barrel. Overall reminded me a little of LaFolie but can’t quite put it in that class.