Jolly Pumpkin La Roja

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

Cloudy orange pour, large lasting whitish head. Astringent fruit ester, yeasty aromas. Heavy sour fruit flavors. Almost overly carbonated in the mouth. Yeasty, improves slightly as it warms with some citrus and red fruits coming through, but it is overwhelmed by the sour to me. A wild ale, but just another typical belgian triple or double. Not my cup of tea. Just way too sour, which I guess is how its supposed to be.

Bouteille de 750 ml. Arômes fruités présentant des touches lactiques. Robe orangée, légèrement trouble. Effervescence à petites bulles et superbe mousse. Très bien équilibrée en bouche, un filet de malt caramel accompagne des touches citronnées, des fruits rouges et une belle touche sûre (lactique). Finale légèrement houblonnée. Très agréable à boire.

Pours a hazy garnet with a BIG rocky, tan foam. This was a gusher and continued to creep its way out of the bottle well after the first glass was poured. The aroma is sour with hints of raspberry, rum, fruitcake. The flavor is sour, wood tannin, grape, brown sugar

Bottle: came bursting out of the bottle when opened, pours a hazy brownish-orange with a frothy white head, fruity, spiced, sour aroma, taste is mildly sour with some of the oak coming through after the initial sour burst, lots of carbonation with a thin mouthfeel.

Sparkling garnet with a minimal 1/8 inch ivory head. Starts with a sour that locks the jaw, then develops into a beer with complexity. Caramel, toffee, even perhaps a bit of oak. Nose is slightly yeasty, biscuity, and spicy. Good mouthfeel. Yum.

Bright, cloudy, amber and 1 thin finger of cream-like head with fast popping bubbles as the head collapses into a very frothy looking head. Very inviting. An awesome sourness with some nice yeasty wildness formally found in lambics and sours made with brett. For someone that likes sours, this beers smells great! The sourness is very bold up front with a decent amount of carbonation but not overwhelming by any means. I think that this beer could be more. The aroma suggests that it should be. Almost a sour, quiet wild and yet still tame enough and pedestrian enough that someone not into crazy wild sours would still appreciate. My favorite from this brewery so far. Now I can say that the alcohol isn’t present in the aroma, or taste but you can feel it. It warms the mouth, throat and yes, the soul. This is one warming beer I think would woop your ass if you stopped payin attention to how much you’ve had. Drink 1....with a friend if you like...

Pours amber. Aroma of nice light sourness. Taste is oak wood and fruity with nice apple/cider notes. Good carbonation, the sour taste remains light, making the beer very enjoyable to drink. Nice barrel oak taste that make this part of Jolly Pumpkin’s unique line of sour beers.

12 oz. bottle. Quite mellow, with very soft mustard and spice notes in the nose. Flavor is a rather full and sour-grapes fruit-filled sensation that ends roundly. Not noticeably spicy or yeasty.