Baudelaire Ale Absurd
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales

 

This looks interesting, and haven't had a new Jolly Pumpkin in a while, so I'm excited

Pours a small fizzy bubbly head with lower retention, fair lacing, a bit of legs, semi hazy deep dark golden tan color

Nose is interesting, a little papery oxidation I think, green apple and tart apple juice notes with fair tart fruit, little toasted buttery oak, light grainy malt, with a bit of a raisiny fruit, white raisin, light floral phenol spices, mix of fruity esters, little fruity white wine, becoming more chardonnay like, but also a weird unpleasant acid aroma that I can't put my finger on

Taste brings chardonnay like dry white wine and champagne like dryness and champagne yeast like flavor, bready dough thing, little bitterness, plenty of apple juicy, tart apple and green apple skin, again that strange acid character I'm not a fan of but I can't label, little alcohol, some fruity berry like esters, and more raisiny prune notes, little oak tannin and buttery oak, some weird bitter spices mixed in as well that I can think as spicy rye thing going on, little brothy as well, finishes flemmy with acidity and sticky feel, more of that weird acidity and sour apple juice

Mouth is med to a bit fuller bod, some warming slight tingly alcohol, flemmy acidity, med-lighter carb

Overall it was not that great, lots of fruit, some good and some less so, the sour apple juice and apple skin was not that great, also clashed with the spices, and the strange acidity that I didn't like, chardonnay and barrel were OK, but the rest was kinda weird and unpleasant

 

 

 

Look: Dark orange and almost totally opaque. Very thin white head that quickly dissipates.

Smell: Orange, pumpkin, brett funkiness, grapefruit.

Taste: Icy rye spice and mild bitterness. Relatively little of the smell comes through.

Mouthfeel: A little thin with high carbonation.

Overall: I wish the smell came through more in the flavor. It ends up being a lot less impressive than it lets on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fun beer lemon and funk.

Thanks Adam.

Golden orange body with a small white head. Funky brett, fruity notes, malt, yeast. Lovely flavor. Bready citrus with loads of Jolly Pumpkin brett funk. Delicious.

 

 

I see its says "retired," well ok, as I'm just some Alaskan that this beer showed up at Percy's in Juneau. Uh...honestly, I don't care as I posted it in WBAYDN #796.
I had it and this is my take on it.
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a nice glazed over orange color with a thin half fingered white foamy head that quickly dissipated. Light sticky lacing graced the sides of the glass.
The smell had a super nice big citrus to rye to pine glossed over sweet grapefruit maltiness.
The taste was there. Its sweet and bitter and has a light rye spice to balance and combine nicely. There's a nice grapefruit bittersweet aftertaste lingering to lead to a fine bitter finish.
The mouthfeel had a really nice sweet lingering rye to citrus/sweet grapefruit palatable sessionability about it. Wow, really? Yeah, I really I liked this one.
Overall, where did this come from? It says its a saison on Beer Advocate, but that rye-ness on this, whoah, hot damn, I really like it, but it seems a bit different than other saisons I've had. I'd still have this again.