Jolly Pumpkin Biere de Mars

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

750 ml bottle, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. "French Style Stock Ale - Ale Aged in Oak Barrels". ABV is 7%. Hazy amber to brownish colour, large off-white head. Strong aroma of farmhouse. horse blanket, lemons, oak and apple cider vinegar. Medium sour flavour with lemony and oaky notes, fairly distinct and peppery hops in the finish. "Beware the ides of March!"

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Pours clear copper with minimal head. Aroma offers tart stone and citrus fruit. Flavor gives tart and slightly sour stone and citrus fruit. Texture provides OK body & fizz. Eau de Mars.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

A crystal bright amber colored beer. There's a good beige colored, sudsy textured head rising above. There's decent hang time on the head. A thick ringlet is left. Vinegar funkiness balanced by pome fruit sweetness. East enough to drink this lightly effervescent beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Bottle date 3/9/12 poured into a tulip. Pour is super effervescent with a soapy head that caps and dissipates. Bright red with noticable carbonation in the glass. The aroma is composed barnyard funk, vinegar, and pears. Mouthfeel is super carbonated and massively sharp and acidic, but very pleasant. Taste is SUPER tart, even for a Jolly Pumpkin brew. I love this. Taste includes apples, peaches, oak, and yeasty/funk. I'm sipping slowly but this is so drinkable and refreshing it wouldn't be a chore to drink the entire 750ml - but alas, I shared. Fantastic stuff.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Bottle from Knightly. Why did I wait this long to pick up a bottle? Pours a dark amber color with a nice fluffy head. Good retention the whole way through. The aroma shows flowers, brett, apples, yeast and a lesser dark fruit scent. Flavors are nicely tart and sour with apples, pears and cherries. Lots of brett and very dry in the finish. Everything meshes really well here. YUM, this is delicous! A little expensive, yeah, but I want more!

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Bottle from CaptainCougar. Pour was hazy golden-straw, high carbonation and head presence, solid Belgian ring-like lacing. The aroma was funky bret over top of some light fruitiness. The flavor followed, this came across as a typical Belgian Ale (minus spicing) that has been very nicely crafted: sourness, bread, light fruits, oak, barnyard. Mouthfeel is acidic, well carbonated, clean, crisp, a tad thin but probably heavy for the style. Thanks, Tom!

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

tons of sour/tart chocolate malts ... pours a basic brown with a great looking head .. earthy, wine barrel aroma's .. i'm ready to get 86'ed ... light fruit also ...clean, not overly dry.. subtle yet defined ... sour notes, not ripe apples, mellow. i could drink this right after running the boston marathon ... nice stuff from JP...

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Bottle courtesy of Secret Santa: Poured a clean copper color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and good lacing. Aroma is zesty, orangey and very funky. Taste is also a typical JP mix between some orange, lightly sweet lemon with some distinctive barnyard and bretty notes. I think I detect some spices but there are not too prominent and might come from the yeast used in this beer. Full body with good carbonation and no distinctive alcohol. Very well done again from a brewer that just can’t stop to amaze me.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Aroma is earthy as well as woody with some spice and Brett with even some bready malt coming through with tartness and some slight sour. Appearance is a hazy copper red in color with a massive head on top that is light-tan in color and continues to build and rise into a dome light bread dough and is highly carbonated. Mouthfeel is rather light-bodied and delicate as usual with complexities of spice countered by malty balance and the palate is over-carbonated slightly but coats well and is very pleasant and tasty. Flavor is oaky, malty, peppery and of spice and musty yeastiness with an aftertaste that is clean and smooth with more Brett noticeable and becomes tart and rather sour and has a finish that is dry to some extent and typical of Jolly Pumpkin. Overall, good product we have here and worth seeking out but sometimes these brews from this brewer become redundant but, nonetheless, quality with this one yet again.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 7

750 ml bottle. Pours a hazy copper-orange with a fizzy white head that quickly diminishes to a thin film that leaves some fine lacing.

The aroma is oak, pepper, some hops and bready malts with some sour sweet-tarts.

The flavor is some bready malts and grassy hops with a little tart sourness. The finish is a weird muted bitterness that tastes kind of off. The mouthfeel is medium bodied and slightly watery with some sharp fizzy carbonation.

Overall, a decent beer. So far it's my least favorite JP beer. I would've like to see a little more sourness, and less of the off bitter finish. As it warmed, it did smooth out some.