Jolly Pumpkin Madrugada Obscura

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

A pitch black beer with a thick dark brown head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of chocolate as well as some notes of vanilla, and light notes of roasted malt. The flavor is sweet - and rather acidic - is it bret? but also with notes of wood as well as light notes of chocolate.

(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of sk8viking. Black and opaque with a tall and very lively head - it keeps on coming.... Sourish aroma with some roasted malt. Medium body with an extreme carbonation - unpleasantly so - roasted and lightly burned malt accents and a very distinct acidity. The bitterness is modest. I usually really dig the Jolly Pumpkin beers for their lovely Brett edge, but it simply doesn’t work in this one. The Madrugada Obscura simply comes out as an infected Stout, which isn’t a very good experience. 160607

75 cL bottle. Pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malt, light wooden, burned and mild cherry sourish fruity. Solid sourness, roasted malt, dark chocolate, mild smoked infection note and distinct fruity base flavour to this. Lingering smoked infection into the finish. Another distinct infection like sour beer, tasty but somewhat murky flavour profile. Ends sharp citric to acidic with a lingering chocolate malt flavour.

Bottle. [ Courtesy of kmweaver ] Clear dark brown color with a large, creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, sour, vinegar, notes of coffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and light sour with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (271007)

Bottle. Black coloured with a beige ehad. Roasted and light acidic aroma of wood and brett. Roasted and acidc flavour of vanilla, brett and liquorice. Very carbonated. Don’t like the combination of roastiness and acidity.

Date: April 27, 2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brewery
Appearance: black, huge brown head, lots of lace
Aroma: tart roasted aroma
Flavor: rich roasted malt flavor with a nice oaky charatcer a fruity cherry pit like tartness, nice and dry, all of the flavors are well balanced without any one taking dominance

Date: June 04, 2009
Mode: bottle
Source: Ale Atlanta
Vintage: 2009
Appearance: black, fine tan head
Aroma: tart fruit aroma, sweet esters, touch of roasted
Body: creamy carbonated body
Flavor: rich roasted flavor, lots of oaky character with a tart edge, bitterness flows out of the roasted, tart and fruity finish

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Near black with a super thick medium brown head. Roasty aroma with a peppermint phenol character. Both tart and roasty, and way too fizzy, with vague phenols. This really doesn’t come together at all. So much promise - you can tell there’s a good beer in here somewhere. But it fails to deliver.

Black with huge dark beige head. Sourish aroma with roasted malt , wooddy and liquerice notes. Sour flavour with roasted malt, coffee and liquerice notes. Sour finish.