Blanca
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales in Dexter, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Witbier Regular|
Score
7.19
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Spiced with orange peel & coriander, you’'ll find it refreshingly tart, with a wonderfully dry finish.
Blanca is a Farmhouse Witbier brewed in Belgium’s beer blanche tradition. Aged in oak foeders for 2 months.
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Beertalk (16424) reviewed Blanca from Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
On tap at Fermentoren. Cloudy pale yellow, almost with a green hue, and a lasting white head. The aroma is funky and fruity with a spicy touch. Dry and tart flavour with funk, pineapple, orange and a spiced and salty touch. Gose in disguise?
VsXsV (3855) reviewed Blanca from Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Hazy hay yellow liquid with medium white head. Aroma of lemon peel, light grain, white pepper, light spices and light earth. Taste is dry, light bitter and light sour with notes of lemon peel, light grain and light apples. Light to medium bodied with medium to hugh carbonation. Really nice and dry.
neongolden (4416) reviewed Blanca from Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
(750ml bottle from the LCBO) Pours hazy straw gold with a big bubbly white head that fades reasonably quickly for its size leaving lace. Aroma has sour apples, herbs, touch of tart citrus, a bit of dusty yeast, light-moderate Brett funk, a little acidic. On the palate, quite tart but not as sour as the nose suggests. Some apple, lemon and orange peel, a bit dusty and almost mineral with a bit of yeast. Slightly woody and dry and bitter in to the finish and lingering after, quite herbal and floral, and lightly spicy. A tartness lingers around the corner of the mouth and citrus peels persist a bit til the end. Bit of stone in the aftertaste. Light body with a fairly aggressive carb of big, effervescent bubbles. Definitely not your run of the mill wit, twisted a bit with the JB lightly sour/tart/funky/woody character. A little light as their beers seem to be. Would make a nice table beer on a hot summer afternoon I think, but maybe slightly underpowered as a pure sipper.
Nische (5605) reviewed Blanca from Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours an hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma of brett, peach, and lemon with some spices. Flavor is wheaty and acidic, some lemon and grain.
popery (1998) reviewed Blanca from Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
The beer is a pale yellow color. Fairly hazy. Smallish white head. Fades away fairly quickly. The aroma is wheaty sweetness with lemony sourness and oak. Mild spicing. Some orange knocking around but it gets mixed up with the lemony sourness of the beer. Mild vanilla and other sweet woodiness. There’s some spicy wheat flavor up front. Lots of gentle lemon peel sourness. It really tastes more like a light, bright sour than a witbier. JP funkiness throughout. Lots of depth. Earthy and fruity background. The finish features a dry oak flavor and more of the spicing than showed up in the aroma. The coriander still seems pretty reserved but the orange peel makes its presence felt. Just gentle waves of lemon on top of a dried out wheat blanket. Pucker is mild but still more than you’ll find in any witbier. Relatively low carbonation. It’s a wonderful beer but hard to compare to the style. In my mind, it’s more of a low intensity sour. It would be interesting to try this beer blended into a normal wit.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
A cloudy straw gold with a big soapy looking white head. A slow gusher. Yeasty spicy clove aroma with light banana. The beer has a medium body with a bit of viscous mouthfeel. Tangy wheat, wine like with light witbier notes. I was expecting more.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Percy’s.
This was poured into a mug.
The appearance was a decent glossed over yellow color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within less than thirty seconds.
The lacing was somewhat there and just kind of went all over.
The smell was tart and had some light orange and orange peel, light coriander, light lemon and ends with just a tad of yeastiness.
The taste was sweet and yeasty with a decent bitter to tart conglomeration of the lemon and orange peel.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium in body with a fair carbonation to allow a decent sessionability about it.
Overall, good witbier I’d probably have again.
NilsAS (11500) reviewed Blanca from Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Fin duft av hvete, sitron og høy. Dunkel gul farge. Tykt hvitt skum. Frisk syrlig smak av citron og noe hvete. godt.
Metalchopz (7978) reviewed Blanca from Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Great looking artistic label that reflect well the crafty brewery. OK, maybe I should of not tilted that bottle to get the good stuff at the bottom of the bottle. Complete volcano occurred with the heavy carbonation. Cloudy amber-yellow colour with a crazy foamy head, long retention and some soapy patches. Not expecting this big sourness, as thought this was a witbier. Lots of citrus with the lemon notes, and even some apples. The taste is still sour, but not as much. Craft brew yeast mostly with some mild fruits (previously mentioned). Crafty yes, but really not what I was expecting. Not one I would try again, especially for the price. Not sure if this is infected with this sourness that should not be in a witbier. Did I mention, not a fan ?
Helsdon (1068) reviewed Blanca from Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales 11 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
This beer is deeeeeeeeeee-lish, though I gotta tell you the initial head is a bit crazy. I’ve had a Belgian Wit Brett before, but this one is excellent. Pour a cloudy yellow, with a huge level of white head which takes it time to settle to nothing, eventually. Some nice sour apple brett in the nose, little banana, not really getting the cilantro but that’s okay. The taste is again, sour-apple brett, but not overpowering, nice wheat malts, overall great flavour. May 30, 2015 Had a bottle that’s been in the cellar (aka sweet-ass dank basement) and if anything it’s better. Still foamy as hell, but nice socks and wit and barrel. Damn good.