Jolly Pumpkin Artisanal Ale Weizen Bam, Farmhouse Wheat Beer, Bottle Conditioned Ale Aged in Oak Barrels.
"The fourth in our Bam Farmhouse series, and perhaps our most adventurous; a traditional farmhouse style heft weizen.
Weizen Bam seamlessly blends traditional German style heft wizen yeast with our local wild and sour cultures, for a menage of the most flavorful sort.
Ruddy golden, with yeast driven ester of banana, spicy clove, and nutmeg all wrapped up with a generous dose of good-natured rapscallion delight. Cheers and mahalo plenty!"
Batch 817, bottled 6-16-2011
My favorite kind of delight is rapscallion, what a coincidence!
Completely cloud, golden liquid, smallish head, stays as a tight ivory ring, before utterly departing.
Aroma: lemon and straw, orange and light spices, sharp and citric, before banana comes in at last. Very lightly, as well as with the promised clove.
Taste: sour, sharp, and citric, plenty of bite in this first sip. Second sip, more fierce tartness, slowly mellowing. Sour never stops, and it never really resembles a German wizen, no matter what. No, I get it now, this is not supposed to be a hefe weizen, but more of a Berliner weiss. The funky wild yeast strains they employ definitely take it in a different way. The sourness never quits in this, which is definitely different from a traditional hefe weizen.
Medium body, long, sour and spicy finish, and very full in flavor. Dangitty tangitty, it's tasty as can be. That's my new catchphrase, use it while it's fresh.
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