Jolly Pumpkin Bière de Mars Grand Reserve

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

Sour apple with slight lactic edge on the aroma. This carries through to the flavor but with a mild wood cask finish. Apple cider color. Notes: 2006 release (3 yrs old) t the Pints for Prostates/Denver Rare Beer Tasting at Wynkoop Brewing Co, 2009 Great American Beer Fest

Special aged bottle from Beerman 6686 at the Pgh RB gathering 12/09. Funky old smell. Sour and bitter commencement. There is a little more bitter bite than I care for but the funkiness arouses me. Funky barnyard bitter tartness on my palate. Good overall sour beer experience. Bitter lengthy linger.

Backlog. Orange pour with a white head. Aroma of musty malt, sour fruits and oak. Flavors of tangy/sour fruit, oak, and caramel malt. Medium/light body sour/malty with a sour/malty/woody finish.

Thanks to thecheeseman for this one! Light and hazy pour with a thin off white head. Aroma is vanilla, cherry and light bourbon. Light oxidation with hints of cherry, vanilla, green apple and cereal.

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.