[1pm Update: According to AllAboutStout at RateBeer, “Unfortunately this will be a brewery only release. The label approval didn’t get done on time. These should be released at the end of October early November at the brewery.” Nothing official from the brewery yet but posters generally don’t just make stuff up!]

(Dexter, MI) – The guys from the Madison Beer Review interviewed Jolly Pumpkin Owner/Brewmaster, Ron Jeffries, a while back. Apart from discussing Michigan wild yeast and keg theft, he hinted that a pumpkin ale would be coming this fall, one that could appease the many that had phoned him each autumn, expecting the brewery to be the top source for pumpkin beers. That goal appears to have finally come to fruition with the debut of Jolly Pumpkin La Parcela No. 1.

The label describes it as an “ale brewed with pumpkin, spices, and cacao,” aged in oak, and with a surprisingly low ABV level of 5.9%. No mention of wild yeast on the label though Jolly Pumpkin bills itself as the only brewer in the U.S. to “age 100% of its beers in oak with naturally occurring wild yeast.” I reported a couple weeks back that Jeffries would be sending a sour pumpkin ale to Cambridge Brewing in Massachusetts for a pumpkin ale fest. This is probably the same beer so there is likely a sour component to this as well, which could make it one of the first of its kind.

An email has been sent to the brewery for more details though I’m predicting a late October release.