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Jolly Pumpkin on MSNBC March. 7, 2008
"The new brew attitude is quality, not quantity"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23415311/
December 2007
BeerAdvocate reviewers rate Jolly Pumpkin as the #13 Best Brewer in America!
Pucker Up, Buttercup- Dec 7 2007
First Draft by Lew Bryson
Imbibe Magazine-
November / December 2007
August 2007
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A visit from the RoadBrewer:
"I also visited the Jolly Pumpkin booth where I met Owner/Brewer Ron Jeffries. I had heard great things about Ron's beers during this trip and my husband really wanted me to visit Ron's brewery, but I'd needed a rest day in Kalamazoo and had to skip my Jolly Pumpkin stop.
Ron had a nice collection of six or seven firkins pouring his unique sour beers. I was able to try five of his beers, Perseguidor #2, a blend of at least four beers aged in wood six months and then aged in the bottle (or firkin) another six months was my favorite. Hard to choose when each sour beer is so different from the next. Photo above of the Jolly Pumpkin crew, L to R: Sean Brennan, Laurie Jeffries, Ron Jeffries, and their son Daemon Jeffries.
Jolly Pumpkin's Bam Biere is a hoppy Saison type beer with an interesting name. Bam is their Jack Russell Terrier puppy who got bammed by a car and survived. Although Bam has a French name, most of the rest of Jolly Pumpkin's beers have Spanish names befitting their pirate-pumpkin-Spanish-Main theme. And in case you were wondering, no Jolly Pumpkin doesn't specialize in pumpkin beers each autumn!"
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Teri Fahrendorf
http://www.roadbrewer.blogspot.com
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I made a quick trip to Dexter, Michigan, to visit Ron Jeffries of Jolly Pumpkin Artisanal Ales. With the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, I'm speaking at a beer dinner on October 2 at Zingerman's Roadhouse, and hope to feature southern Michigan craft brews along with specialty cheeses from Wisconsin. I bought the Bam Bière, a refreshing farmhouse ale that I hope will pair well with the Penterman's fenugreek Gouda from Holland Family Farms. Jolly Pumpkin uses open fermentation and barrel ages all its beers - "because ale from wood casks is a rockin' style" according to Ron.
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BeerAdvocate magazine
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Travel Issue (May 2007)
Beer Smack (Jason & Todd Alström): Top 50 American Breweries
#8 Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales
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May 2007
"A brewers feast from the East", in the April / May 2007 Celebrator Beer
News. http://celebrator.com/home.html
Podcast Episode #19 Beer Brewcast 4/40/2007 Click here
Imbibe Magazine
March/April Issue
Blast from the past, a new crop of organic, barrel-aged and herb infused beers offer a dose of brew history
By Joshua M. Bernstein
http://www.imbibemagazine.com
3/8/07
The Michigan Daily
War and ink
Singular style of Ann Arbor native Adam Forman perseveres in Hollywood trenches
By Kimberly Chou
http://media.www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2007/03/08/TheBSide/War-And.Ink-2764630.shtml
2/8/2007
From Scratch: Jolly Pumpkin Ales by Kimberly Chou
http://metromodemedia.com/features/JollyPumpkin05.aspx
2/5/2007
ANN ARBOR CRIER
A Very Jolly Pumpkin by Marion Jackson
http://www.criermag.com/hopsnscotch/pumpkin/
1/17/2007
Strange brew by Todd Abrams
http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=10066
October 2006
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25 Best Beers In America
#21 Jolly Pumpkin Bam Bière
Dexter, MI
"This one is an acquired taste. Like the Belgian classic Orval, Bam Bière contains a stout helping of brettanomyces, a bacterium considered a defect in most wines that's key to many Belgian standout beers. "Brett," as it's sometimes called, is often described as leathery or earthy (a flavor sometimes referred to as "horse blanket"); in this hazy golden ale those funky flavors are balanced by a pleasant citrus tang. "
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