Jolly Pumpkin Bam Biere

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

(Bottle, batch 354/355) Poured pale golden and almost clear with medium sized, creamy and white head. Aroma was spice, peppery, fruity and sour. Palate was medium bodied and dry with quite high carbonation. Flavours were sourness, grass, fruitiness, light spiciness, bitterness and hint of sweetness. Sour and bit hoppy aftertaste.

Very nice example of thise style...orange yellow pour, tons of carbonation/head, long retention and nice lacing... citrusy, funky horseblanket, nice wild yeast flavors

(bottle - 750 ml) Light hazy golden pour with a ton of white foam and lots of carbonation. Aroma is slightly spicy and dry with a mild sweetness and a very mild sour note. Flavor is tart and dry at the start. Very dry and earthy in the middle with a dry and tart finish. Almost like a carbonated chardonnay.

12oz bottle from green’s in columbia. pours a bright, yellow-gold with a thin, bubbly white head and quite a few yeast floaties and solid lacing. aroma is quite nice with big belgian brett funk, barnyard, lemon and orange peel, with a hint of apricot sweetness and cedar wood. flavor is nice as well with lemon zest, mild brett funk, hay, floral esters, and hints of clove with tart notes of cherry and apple cider vinegar. palate is light, highly carbonated, and maybe a bit thin and watery with a short, cedar wood and tart lemon finish. overall, a solid saison.

Subtle fruit taste with a striking champagne finish...mainly from the carbonation. I smelt and tasted cherries and oranges. It felt soft, crisp & buttery on my tongue.

Bomber poured into a tulip. Pale orange/gold color, murky, with fluffy white head. Aroma of orange peel, lemon, coriander, yeast, funk, wheat. Taste is bitter and funky, with lots of lemon zest. Virtually no malt sweetness for balance, it’s all citrus and funk, with some tartness. Mouthfeel a bit thin and watery. Carbonation is fizzy and crisp, finishes dry.

Bottle. Cloudy apperance, with yeast on the bottom. Spicy, barnyard smell. Aww, another adventure into a sour beer. Well, this one is not bad. Maybe I’m getting the hang of this stuff. Still, not my first choice. Does have a nice malt-hop balance but that twangy taste.....

Hazy yellowish orange color with an enormous rocky off-white head that slowly slowly settles down. Lots of chunky lacings. The smell is really good. Refreshing fruit aromas, floral notes and a mild funkiness reside on a delicate biscuity malty backbone. Hints of spices and medicinal phenols. The taste is surprisingly clean with notes of lemon-peel and melon up front. The fruits quickly step aside and make way for spices, faint malts and grassy and earthy hop notes. A very mild funkiness and a semi-tart note is overpowered by a moderate sweetness. The finish is surprisingly short, mildly tart and bitter with notes of medicinals, spices, minerals and brett flavors. Medium body, crisp and refreshing with a rather aggressive carbonation. The finish is really dry. I like this one, and in general I find Jolly Pumpkin’s brett character quite pleasing. Perhaps Bam Bière can’t compete with the best Belgian representatives of the style, but it’s quite close. Serving type: bottle (Copy of old Beer Advocate review)