Jolly Pumpkin Luciernaga (The Firefly)

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

This is my first Jolly Pumpkin. The beer starts off with a sour smell. Reminds me of Rodenbach Grand Cru fresh in Belgium. Huge amount of fluffy head. The beer’s sour doesn’t come through on the taste. The body of the beer on the first sip doesn’t linger. It is an easy drinking soured beer.

ultra dry musty nose. plenty of yeast on hand for aromas and also the carb that could have blown the cap through a brick wall and has my tulip filled with a cotton candy head. aroma evolves to the sweet yet dirty lemon flavor my brain has come to associate with wild yeasts. unbelievable and unmistakable stank of dirty straw and livestock. head has begun to recede but only around the edges, leaving a pimple like circle in its midst begging to be shattered of its ’pus’: pure bready reeking organisms. before it has time to complete its recession into the depths of brew that lurk below, i perform my best rusty cunnilingus on the pimple, tempted to spell the ABCs and enjoying the musty murky flavors, not unlike a real vagina. i can wait no longer, tipping my glass nearly vertical so that the liquid breaks its foam barrier i am greeted with more leathery goodness and a strong malt background. it ebbs and flows, the waves interspersed with more and more of the wonderful vitamin A laden yeast. more then a good beer, this is genius. the low ABV prevents me from moving this nearly to the top of my list.

Thanks ogglethorp. Clear amber pour, large, rocky, free-standing beige head. Aroma has the Jolly Pumpkin house yeast funk and some cellar mustiness. Flavor is principally yeasty, nice molasses theme in the malt backbone. The finish is a bit off-rubbery. Palate is dry with an apple-peel astringency to it, very nice.

Sampled at DLD color was amber to orange with aromas of sour fruits and spice taste was sour fruits (like something went wrong not my style)spice and hops

2006 750ml bottle with the old style oval label. Hazy orange/amber with a rocky off white head. Earthy dry aromas of JP funk, cheese, dry hay, wood, with some caramel. Light body with a frothy mouthfeel. Dust bowl dry flavors of toasted wood hay aged cheese and pale malts. Gawddamn this shit is awesome !

Bottle at VV tasting, Odense. Pours cloudy amber/orange with a large fully lasting white head. Nose is fruity orange and hops. Dry and crisp taste with lots of brett , yeast and oak notes. Smooth and medium bodied. Ends super dry. Funky & Fresh!

Pours/gushes a golden brown with a huge head. Yeasty spicy aroma. Sweet fruit nose as well. Flavor is funky tart fruits and spice. Very dry in the finish.

Nice gold-yellow pour with white head. Aroma of yeast, fruit, and spice. Flavor is like the aroma, but with some sourness and a dry aftertaste and mouthfeel.