Jolly Pumpkin Madrugada Obscura

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

My feeble mind and palate are far to simplistic to understand this glass of liquid confusion. A bone dry "foreign stout"? My whole world has been turned upside down face.

Bottle - 750ml. Pours an opaque black body with low carbonation and a thick beige pillowy head. Strong malty/hoppy aroma with roasty, fruity, and black chocolate hints. Sharp hoppy taste that ends with a long bitter/sour finish.

Black pour, dark brown thin head Aroma of freshly ground Columbian coffee. Clean, Crisp, and dry coffee flavors with dry roasty notes in the finish. Some lactic tartness in the finish..very crisp, very clean, complexity is not turned on the high setting though.

If you have this in a bottle, be very careful opening it because it foams like all-get-out! Pours a rich, opaque sable with a very thick and fairly persistent dark tan head. Aroma is fairly strong and has chocolate, smoky and coffee components. Flavor is like cold coffee with some sweet fizz and an undertone of dark chocolate. There is also some apple flavor and a bit of an alcohol nip, giving the taste a cidery component. Texture is smooth but not watery.

Pours Black with a massive brown head. Flavor is tart and spice. Decent body w/ lots of CO2. Not bad, but nothing special...described in a word "odd."

Bottle. After reading reviews of this I’m astonished. The sourness did not go well at all with the chocolate, roasty malts. I’m not sure what these guys were trying to due but its like eating a lemon and a piece of dark chocolate. This was also extremely carbonated and is the second Jolly Pumpkin brew which has extremely disappointed me. Maybe this is good compared to others like it but that still doesn’t make it enjoyable. I’m sorry but thumbs down.

Bottle. I’m still confused about this beer. I’m not really sure what just happened. I wasn’t impressed at all. It does have a hint of tart aroma and flavor that accompanies a standard (but subtle) stout roasted maltiness, however it was overly carbonated in my opinion and fairly bland.

Bottle: pours a thick looking black with a big frothy tan head, aroma of chocolate, malt, coffee, some sourness too, taste is acidic, sour, bitter with a thin mouthfeel. Complex but I’m not sure this all works together - at least for my taste buds it doesn’t seem to be working.