Jolly Pumpkin Weizen Bam

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours hazy topaz with a serviceable ivory head. Aroma provides sharp, sour fruit, mainly pomme and stone fruit, plus wheat, lemon and subtle butterscotch tones. Flavor gives tart and sour stone, pomme and citrus plus wheat and malt - where did the butterscotch go? This beer will definitely get your mouth's attention! Texture features fair body and fizz. Bam your Wizen, and Happy Halloween!

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

750 ml bottle, blend 9 bottled 08-16-2012. The bottle was a bit of a gusher. Pours hazy yellow with a fizzy white head that quickly disappears completely (surprising considering the bottle gushed).

The aroma is wheaty malts with a little funky bretty sourness.

The flavor is slightly sweet wheaty malts with a bit of tart lactic fruit and funky spicy brett and a dry finish. The mouthfeel is medium bodied and a little watery.

Overall, a nice light wheat sour. Seems a bit like a berliner.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Cool beer. I want to dock it points for friggin exploding...maybe I will if I can't exchange it :). Loved the sour hefe flavor and aroma though. Pretty neat...different than a berliner tastes, & different than most Jp beers.

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

Not sure why this is catagorized as a hefe, its a farmhouse wheat so I would think wit is the right style? Nice crisp dry beer with a wild wheaty smell. Pale hazy straw color and a thin almost dry water mouthfeel if that makes sense. I would try this again, its just unique enough.

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

An enjoyable Farmhouse Wheat, the aroma is of spice and gives a raw wheat impression like a wit. It's very effervescent, white head, a little champagne-like. Light color and dry finish. Quite quaffable.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Aug. 2010 - Looks like murky banana juice. Wonderful aroma of yeast, bret and bananas. I liked the idea here and I think the bretting was done well...strong but not overwhelming. I just think the underlying hefe was just a little watery and weak. Still, worth seeking out.

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

750 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. Batch 573. ABV is not mentioned on the label. Cloudy pale yellow colour, huge to big white head. Attractive aroma of citrus, banana, cloves, nutmeg and wild yeast with "farmhouse" notes. The flavour is lemony and acidic with notes of cloves and a hint of oak. Very refreshing and drinkable, but I’d like some more hops.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

This pours very light colored, yellow or lighter gold with a big fluffy white head. Not as much head retention as some other JP brews I’ve had but there was still lots of spotty lacing. The aroma is malty and grassy with some zesty fruits sneaking through. This tastes very carbonated, almost like seltzer. Flavors are spicy with sour tartness, some banana, cloves but very light. Didn’t pick up much oak. This beer is light and easy drinking with some funk. I like quite a few of their others more than this but this is still solid.

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

Bottle: Poured a light golden color ale with a large pure white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of tart notes is dominating with some light funky notes as well. Taste is also dominated by light sour notes with some tartness and some funky barnyard-like notes. Greta carbonation with a medium-full body. Very well done with some great balance and easily drinkable.

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

Batch 315/316; Sampled August 2008
A soft pour produces a two-and-a-half finger thick, pale, off-white colored head. The beer is deeply hazed and has straw color as it sits on my desk, when held up to the light, despite being so light in color, it is opaque in my 25cl tulip glass. Lots of grain-like aromatics are noticeable; grassy, crushed grain and bright wheat notes are noticeable. There is a light tartness to this brew as well as a musty, earthy funk. Some slight clove and the wheat aromas are all that weakly links this with a traditional German Hefeweizen. None-the-less the aroma is quite nice smelling. Other aromas of lemon zest, crushed saltine crackers and some slight phenolics of the none clove variety are also noticed. Interestingly enough, the wheat and grain character is perhaps the biggest contributor to the aroma.

Quite light feeling with a zesty carbonation that causes the beer to dance across the tongue. The flavor is much more what I was hoping; it is in fact a nice mix of traditional German Hefeweizen flavors and the signature JP barrel funk. Flavors of clove up front yield to a tart lemon zest character, but then switches to a mix of banana (this is very soft) and clove flavors as well as some light, spicy oak notes and a tart, wheat driven finish. The barrel funk is definitely young here as it is not overly noticeable; a touch of roundness seems to belie some tannic oak notes, a light tartness and a boost to the spiciness of this beer are what is most noticeable. My second pour has me noticing a touch of green apple fruitiness and, along with the light oak character, is somewhat reminiscent at times of an oaky chardonnay.

Like each of the Bam beers, this is eminently light and quaffable; it is very dry and quite close to water in its heft. This lightness works quite well here as it keeps the beer refreshing and there is lots of complex character to keep one interested in exploring the nuances of this brew. The aroma is a bit of a miss for a beer that is touted as a mix of a Hefeweizen and the JP barrel aged character, as the traditional Hefeweizen notes are much muted and even lacking. This is for the most part made up for in the flavor, but I wouldn't mind a touch more of an assertive Hefeweizen character here either.