Jolly Pumpkin Bière de Mars Grand Reserve

Formerly brewed at Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales
Style: Sour Ale
Dexter, Michigan USA

Bottle 12fl.oz.
Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sour, fruity - berry, wine, wood, strawberry. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate acidic with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090913]

Good lord this was delicious. Brownish pour. Aroma is full of bourbon, sour cherries, fruit vinegar, wood and maybe some vanilla. Flavor is sweet tart, vanilla, wood, bourbon, just delicious. Really well done. This was a bottle of the original batch. And it is still amazing.

12 oz bottle from WTF OMG tasting. Pours a hazy golden yellow color topped by a small, foamy off white head that settles quickly to a thin film. The aroma is really nice with notes of soured apples and other tart citrus to go with some funky wood characters and the sour mash and vaniila from the bourbon barrel. The flavor follows with more tart citrus and sour green apples mixed nicely with soem funky oak tannins, and a touch of bourbon. Some vanilla from the oak comes through as well and smooths out the tart flavors. Full bodied and mouth puckering tart with ample carbonation leading to a lengthy sour apple finish. I love the regular Bier de Mars, and this one is just even better. Fantastic sour ale, and the best brew from Jolly Pumpkin that I have had.

Courtesy northerbrews. 16 months in the barrel. Brown. White carbonation. Beautiful combo of well funked sour ale and bourbon barrel- fruity, tart, barn, vanilla, coconut, a touch of booze. Medium body, balanced carbonation. Awesome.

Bottle at Papsø. Clear orange red coloured with a small off white head. Fruity aroma of bourbon, vanilla and dried fruits with notes of caramel. Fruity flavour of brett, bourbon, spices and vanilla. Tart finish.

Hazy burgundy with a medium beige head. Sour aroma with lacto, sour berries and roasted malt. Flavour was sour with lacto, sour cherries, wood and banryardy notes. Finished sour.

clear reg/brown smooth offwhite head. very nice balanced sour aroma, aged, blended smooth. flavor is sour, bitter, smooth, fruity. quite blended.

Bottled. Dark amber coloured. Unclear. Beige dense head. Berries, sourness, wood, light sweetness, grapes in the aroma. Flavour of sourness, berries, grapes, light wood. Medium to full bodied. Dry. Grapy and sour berry end. very nice.