[12/19 Update: This will be sold at the Ann Arbor pub on NYE, not at the Dexter brewery. Also, Ron Jeffries has added a video in which he briefly discusses the beer on Youtube which I have added below. Finally, considering it is a blend of batches from multiple years, it may be more accurate to call this a Gueuze but I'm not sure what the brewery's position is on that. And it looks like this started in October 2005 (not early 2005 as Jeffries implied here) so closer to four years than five.]

(Dexter, MI) – Lambic has a thirty-year history here in the U.S. dating back to when Lindeman‘s products were first introduced by Merchant Duvin back in 1979. Among American breweries, the early part of that history is still being written before our eyes. Washington-based The Grey Parrot, Russian River Brewing, Allagash Brewing, and Jolly Pumpkin appear to be some of the first to tread into traditional Lambic territory, all within the last several years.

This week, there is more news to be excited about with respect to American breweries experimenting with spontaneously fermented beer than anytime in recent memory. Yesterday, I discussed the release of Allagash Brewing’s Lambic-style beer, first brewed through the use of its own “coolship” two years ago. Today, Jolly Pumpkin is ready to announce that on New Year’s Eve, it will release its own Lambic-style beer, first brewed a little over four years ago, in bottles at the pub in Ann Arbor.

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