Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales Lambicus Dexterius

Lambicus Dexterius

 

Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales in Dexter, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  Lambic Style - Gueuze Special Out of Production
Score
6.56
ABV: 6.3% IBU: - Ticks: 34
Belgian style Lambic brewed traditionally (100% spontaneous fermentation). (Blend of 4 yr, 3.5 yr and 2.5 yr) Malts: Pils Malt, Raw Wheat Hops: Aged Hallertauer One of Jolly Pumpkins founding goals was not only to be the first all oak aged sour brewery in the US, but the first production Lambic brewery as well. We began creating this beer over four years ago. Brewed using a traditional turbid step mash, an extended boil, and allowed to cool overnight in one of our open fermenters. Moved the next day into some of our most sour barrels. No culture yeast is used, only our native Dexter cultures. Notes of orange, grapefruit, and a wonderful funky sourness complete the picture. Bottled Still.
 

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6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle @ RBWG. Pours a murky dark orange appearance with a thin head. Heavy vinegar and dark fruits. Very tannic. Pretty door. Very oaky. Some grape notes. Cheesy notes. Some oxidation. Maybe a bit old.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Feb 2014 at 12:51

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle at RBWG Asheville Grand Tasting. Thanks to Derek! Pours lightly hazy yellow-gold with a bubbly head. Nose has wood, tart lemons. Quite sour flavor, mild sweetness, big citric lemon bite, pale woody dryness. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Bracing sourness to finish, more drying wood, lemon tartness. Nice stuff.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Feb 2014 at 12:47

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
Orange golden colour, slightly white head. Aroma of glue, acid, vinegar, acetone and candy. Sour flavour, light sweet malts, caramel, fusel oils, artificial sweetener and ethylacetate. Quite flat. Sweet finish, quite artificial, ethylacetate, sweetener. Very dry.
Was quite curious to an all-american lambic. Not quite my cup of tea though. Very sour, lots of vinegar. I did learn quite a bit from this beer though, as I was told it has quite classic characteristics for a vinegar infection (azijnsteek) camouflaged with artificial sweetener.
(From 75cL bottle @ RBBWG II, 2013. Courtesy of Thirstybird. Thanks Rian!)
Tried from Can on 22 Jan 2013 at 17:45

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Thx. to Thirstybird / Rian for this one. 75 cl. bottle sampled @ RBBWG 2013. Mmm an American geuze, sort of psyched. Instead of wild fermented in a koelship, this appears to have been wild fermented in barrels, using the bacteria living in the wood. Blend of 4 yr, 3.5 yr and 2.5 yr old lambic. Pours a lightly murky orange without a head. Smells quite sour as in real vinegar and not as in vinegary, herbal candy, sour oranges, touch peal and hint acetone. Taste carries clear characteristics of the different years used to blend, vinegar, touch acetone, quite strongly medicinal, aspirin, strong vinegar, very herbal in wild herbs, medicine cabinet, oak & quite a bit of acetone/paint thinner, vinegar leading into a very medicinal, herbal finish. Enjoyable flat as specified on the bottle. Not sure that this was what they were expecting and going for. I feel a bit that some of the new sour brewers don’t always quite get it when their sours basically more or less fail because this is not really what this is supposed to be. Or maybe it is their custumers pushing them to do this or because of the costs they do it anyway because otherwise they loose too much money. Dunno… I do find stuff here to enjoy but I am not entirely getting it, maybe its me.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jan 2013 at 10:04

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
75cl bottle sample @ RBBWG 2013, courtesy of ThirstyBird. Orangée, pas de col et peu d’effervescence. Arôme rappelle les fruits fermentés; abricot avec ce côté vieux fromage moisi le tout sur un boisé restant très faible. Palais garde ce côté trop mûr et ce côté infecté industriel. Le profil aigre s’en retrouve diminué et la boisé presque absent, le tout se terminant sur un léger côté sec et grains. Le tout se retrouve pénalisé par un palais plat qui n’apporte pas de complexité. Un peu déçu ici Jolly Pumpkin.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jan 2013 at 07:13

3.4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Jolly Pumpkin Lambicus Dexterius (by Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales):
Aroma: 3/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 3/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 7/20, MyTotalScore: 1.7/5

19/I/13 - 75cl bottle @ RBBWG 2013 - BB: n/a (2013-41) Thanks to Thirstybird for sharing the bottle!

Little cloudy orange beer, no head. Aroma: sourish, medicinal, chemica, nail polish remover, pretty bad. MF: no carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter, cheesy, sour, lemony, bit fruity, molded cork. Aftertaste: very cheesy, mildew, dry, blue cheese, chemical. Ok, this is NOT how you make a good sour. Silly Americans rating the shit out of this beer, better be drinking some decent geuze instead. :p
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2013 at 10:13

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Sampled from bottle @ RBBWG 2013. Slightly unclear orange color, no head at all. Aroma has sourness, fruitpeel, tart. Taste sourness, a bit medicinal, fruitpeel, lemon. Quite nice. Dry finish, long lingering sour fruits, good body, good carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2013 at 05:31

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
At Snallygaster event. Poured a cloudy orange color with a small, white head. Aroma was a bit funky, with yam/gourd/pumpkin notes to it. Funkly flavors, some tartness, sourness. Interesting brew.
Tried on 15 Oct 2012 at 23:50

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle. Pours a hazy earthy peach that is slightly hazy with a white head that dissipates completely. Aroma has a good amount of acidic notes with some very sour stone fruit. Flavor is quite intense with a very acidic sour fruit with a bit of JP funk.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Sep 2012 at 19:31

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle shared by Steve. Pours clear pumpkin orange. Nose/taste of tart fruit, peach vinegar, yeast and some paint thinner. Abrasively tart at times. Medium body.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Aug 2012 at 20:39