Jolly Pumpkin Bam Noire

On tap at Slow’s Bar-B-Q. Pours dark brown with an off-white head. Aroma is slightly sweet apple with caramel hints. Flavor is apple, bubblegum, cloves, with funky flavors I generally associate with tart and sour ales, but no sign of sourness. Quite a contradictory beer, with a flavor that doesn’t match its appearance and flavor notes that suggest sourness where there is none. Quite interesting.

Bottle. 25.4 oz. Pours deep murky brown with a tall, solid off-white head. Aroma of hay, earth, pepper, dry hops, and raisins. Medium bodied with a smooth, slightly bitter finish. Decent Saison.

Bottle. Moderate malt aromas of grain and roasted, herbs for the hops, moderate to heavy barnyard for the yeast and background notes of nutmeg, fig and vinegar. Head is creamy, off-white with good lacing and is mostly lasting. Color is murky, dark brown with an decent amount of particles swimming about. Flavor starts moderately acidic and sour, then finishes heavily acidic and moderately bitter. Palate is light to medium, watery, with a fizzy carbonation and a finish that’s chalky, moderately astringent and very dry. The aroma is nice and complex, but the flavor falls off a little flat.

12 oz bottle the Brick Store Pub in Decatur, GA, 04/26/08. Dark brown amber colour with a mostly diminishing fizzy and frothy off-white head. Tangerine and grapefruit, yeasty, bready, and lightly roasty aroma. Bready and grapefruit tartness with a yeasty, fruity, and lightly pithy bitter finish. Medium bodied, dry and refreshing.

13th April 2008 Dark beer with lightly toated and a nice sourness that reminded me of Duchesse Du Bourgogne. The marriage of the two works well.

Clear umber color with a foamy beige head. Light brettanomyces, plum, sweet spice and caramel. LIght and airy feel. LIght flavors bits of malt and citrus. Fairly bland in flavor, in that there is not much depth. LIght and refreshing though.

On Tap. Pous a deep brown amber color with little to no head. The aroma is of malty nuts and caraml, and yeast back bone. The flavoris nice, full, and sweet. There is less body and palate than I expected, but it was an enjoyable tasting, and somewhat coplex flavor.

Bottle: Poured a dark brown color with a thick head. The aroma was dark malts and spice. The flavor was dark fruit, yeast, sour, and a hint of fruit. Overall, another fine beer from JP.