Jolly Pumpkin Bam Biere

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

Spicy citrus and pineapple aroma. Light golden orange colors with a bubbly rich white frothy head. Flavors of light citrus and spiced pickle juice. Slight gueuze qualities. Decently rich palate, slightly creamy, light fruity bitter duration. Overall this is a light and enjoyable although not outstanding saison.

Bottle at the Beer Bistro in Toronto. A funky spicy smell accompanies this hazy straw colored beer. An odd almost manurelike scent comes off this one as it warms but is surprisingly inoffensive. Very foamy head that laces the glass tremendously. A touch spicy with a tart citrus bitterness. Light and effervescent on the tongue.

Wow this is nasty! Pours a yellow color with an enormous head that is pillowy and actually has strange mini globe like shapes in the head. Smells lemony and sour. Tastes aweful! Something like a petting zoo floor on the tongue. It is sour and funky and has an offensive spice. No thank you, drain pour!

Bottle @ Coles Buffalo NY. Nice funky yeasty earthy aroma. Golden. Medium carbonation. Funky & slightly sour Jolly pumpkin taste. Some citrus presence. Good

bottle. pours a hazy honey gold with a sizable white head that lingers and leaves big lacing throughout. smell is sort of lemon pine with a hint of sour apple and some musty funky stuff. different from what i normally drink for sure. taste is kind of woody with those funky notes from the nose and finishes with a bit of sharp pine sol. palate is tart, with a touch of sweetness, a good bit of sour, and some hop bitterness that kind of caught me off guard. medium to light in body and fairly heavily carbonated for a good bubbly mouthfeel. definitely different. it may take some getting used to. re-rate: it did take some getting use to, and now i’ve gotten used to it. strangely, the description is about the same, but the scores are slightly higher. let’s change my description of the taste to lemon, funk, some floral hops, and a bit of spicy honey malt, and call it a wash. as with other jolly pumpkin beers i’ve had, this is extremely quenching, and works exceptionally as a final beer of the night.

The color was light golden. The head was thin, creamy, and white. The aroma had a funkyness to it. It smelled similar to a flemish sour ale with earthyness. The flavor was sour/tart and earthy. The palat was average. The finish had a little bitterness to it.

Pours a pale hazy soft gold with a one finger creamy white head. Nice carbonation.The aroma is sweet mandarin orange peel, spices, light funk, . The flavor is spicy, funky, citrus peel, tangy. Biting carbonation, but full mouthfeel. Different aspects of the flavor last longer in the mouth. The spicy tangy is more present at first giving way to pepper, then warm mandarin orange.

Bottle. Hazy golden pour with lots of white head. Tart aroma with lemons, earthy malt, and yeast. Slightly earthy malt, spices, citrus and tartness mix in the flavor. Pretty good.