Jolly Pumpkin to release: Lambicus Dexterius

December 21, 2009

To be sold at the Ann Arbor Cafe location on New Years Eve – 12.31.09

Lambicus Dexterius is a play on both the beer style and the home of the brewery in Dexter. Those around the brewery sometimes refer to the project as the “Dexter Lambic” or the “Dexter Funk.” This is the first of several Lambic-style beers that Jolly Pumpkin will release over the coming years. If the beers cooperate, the plan is for there to be at least one batch released each year.

Like “Allagash Spontaneous,” Jolly Pumpkin is brewing these beers in the same way as those in Belgium: with the wort cooling in an open fermentation vessel for one day while it picks up natural yeasts from the environment, without innoculation of any brewer’s yeast, before being racked into barrels for primary fermentation. Both beers feature 100% spontaneously fermentation. In April of last year, Jolly Pumpkin Founder and Brewmaster, Ron Jeffries, gave a few more specifics about the project, which first began in October 2005, on the ProBrewer forum. “At this point we are keeping things as traditional as possible. Turbid mash with a large percentage of raw wheat, extended boil with aged hops, using one of our open fermenters as a cool ship, and racking into our most sour barrels the next day. No culture wild yeast, just what has shown up here over the years.”

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