Jolly Pumpkin La Roja

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

Clear amber of color with a foamy beige head. An aroma of earth, spice, sour, sweets and weak caramel. A flavor of spice, earth, weak sweets, sour and caramel.

Pours a mahogany amber with thick off-white head. Aroma strong of tart fruit, lots of dried fruit, strong malt, and spice. Flavor matches well and has a good puckering to it with a good vinegar feeling. Lies somewhere between rodenbach and grand cru in my book.

Bottle shared by plovmand. It pours an amber colour with a beige head. Nose is a little acidic with raisin, prune, and caramel notes. Flavour is bitter/sour with notes of caramel, raisins and somewhat rennet. It has a nice prune after taste with a tart hint.

Pours a murky amber with a nice head that settles thin. It smells winey/oaky and hints at sour fruit and I actually smell a bit of "unlit cigar" aroma. It is sour but not harshly so balanced with a slight sweetness; I taste lemon and cherry. Very enjoyable and a nice transition for a wine drinker like the rest of the Jolly Pumpkins!

Bottle. Deep amber body with a fluffy off white head. Aroma is raisins, ripe fruit, caramel and light acid. Nice flavour of berries, raisin, citrus, acid and pepper. Medium bodied. Ends up pretty tart.

Pours a brown amber with a nice of white head. Aroma is sour with fruit and oak. Flavor is sour,oak, cherries and other fruit, and a little malt.

Bottle. Poured cherry amber with a nice light brown head. Sour aroma, flavor. Woody notes, nice character. Very nice clean, dry finish.

Blend 6, 2008. Picked up for me by Savvy1982 from Montana. Pours a coppery colour with a large tan head. Aroma has sour cherries, oaky vanilla, a little musty basement and earth. Tastes very pleasant, but is a little simple. Sour cherries, earth, spice (allspice), oak, vinegar, and a little alcohol. Mouth feel is lively but a little too fizzy for the style. Decent, but just too simple for a really high mark.