Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales

Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales, LLC
Location Washtenaw, Michigan, USA
Owner(s) Ron Jeffries
Year opened 2004

Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales is a microbrewery in Dexter, Michigan founded by Ron Jeffries in 2004. It operates two pubs in Ann Arbor and Traverse City, Michigan. Jolly Pumpkin produces a variety of unfiltered and unpasteurized "rustic country beers".

Jolly Pumpkin ages their beers in wine barrels which contain naturally occurring microbiological cultures including brettanomyces. These cultures produce a complex flavor profile in their beers, which includes flavors described as leathery, earthy, wild, funky, or even "sweaty horse hair character"[1], and which may approximate how some beer tasted before the advent of pasteurization and industrialization. This style of beer has been described as "farmhouse ale", or American wild ale.

Their Oro de Calabaza won the 2004 Gold and the 2005 Bronze Medal in in the Belgian- and French-style ale category at the Great American Beer Festival.[2] Their Bam Bière won the Bronze Medal in the 2009 GABF and was named the 21st best beer in America by Men's Journal[3].

Contents

Products

Year-round beers

Seasonal beers

Special releases

Their occasionally available Grand Reserve beers, each of which are hand-blended from mature, barrel-aged batches, include:

References

  1. ^ http://www.northernbrewer.com/wyeast.html "Produces the classic sweaty horse hair character indigenous to beers of this region; gueuze, lambics, sour browns."
  2. ^ http://www.beertown.org/events/gabf/past_winners.htm
  3. ^ http://www.jollypumpkin.com/beers.htm
  4. ^ http://www.allaboutbeer2.com/beertalk/reviews.cgi?action=beer&id=1018 Beer Talk: La Roja Artisan Ale
  5. ^ http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/jolly-pumpkin-perseguidor-batch-1/62160/
  6. ^ http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/jolly-pumpkin-perseguidor-batch-2/79035/
  7. ^ http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/jolly-pumpkin-perseguidor-batch-3/90944/1/2/
  8. ^ "Jolly Pumpkin releases P4 on Jan. 2nd"
  9. ^ "Beer events and wine tastings rev up in state" Melody Baetens, The Detroit News
  10. ^ "Jolly Pumpkin Perseguidor 5 to be released on Sunday, Jan. 17th"
  11. ^ David Bardallis, "Line stretches down Main Street for Jolly Pumpkin beer release"[1]

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