Impossible Soul
The Rare Barrel in Berkeley, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.55
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Golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with tart cherries and sweet cherries. Fermented with Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus and some other special microorganisms
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A hazed golden ale with a very thin off white head. In aroma, sweet yet tart malt with Epsom salts, light Brett, light lactic notes, light horse blanket, very nice. In mouth, a very tart ale with Epsom salts, light Brett, light lactic notes, very nice and complex. Bottle at Big Deck tasting 2018.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2018
at 01:19
8.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. Hazy golden color white head. Nice aroma of cherry, berry, light citrus, dust, moderate funk. Taste is fruity, peppery, dusty, more funk, cobwebs, attic corners, bright fruit, soft sourness. Delicious.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2018
at 13:19
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Thank you for sharing ElManana+1! Bomber sampled @ RBBSG17. Dark amber orange, little white head. Nose is massively sour, vinegar, acidic, vinegar plaster, USA puckering all the way. Tate is massively acidic glue, puckering, cherry vinegar, addition of sweet cherries here next to sour ones seems like a joke. Vinegar & plastic body. Solid vinegar for sure.
Tried
on 28 Aug 2017
at 03:37
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Imported from my RateBeer account as The Rare Barrel Impossible Soul (by The Rare Barrel):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
26/VIII/17 - 1Pt. 6Fl. Oz. bottle @ RBBSG17 - BB: n/a (2017-1357) Thanks to ElManana+1 for sharing the bottle!
Very cloudy beige to brown beer, small creamy irregular white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty dirty, dusty, acidic, vinegar. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very sourish, acidic, vinegar, lemon juice, lemon rinds. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, bit metallic. Another messy acidic American sour. Absolutely not my thing... :(
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 12/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
26/VIII/17 - 1Pt. 6Fl. Oz. bottle @ RBBSG17 - BB: n/a (2017-1357) Thanks to ElManana+1 for sharing the bottle!
Very cloudy beige to brown beer, small creamy irregular white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty dirty, dusty, acidic, vinegar. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very sourish, acidic, vinegar, lemon juice, lemon rinds. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, bit metallic. Another messy acidic American sour. Absolutely not my thing... :(
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2017
at 18:05
5.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Sampled @ RBBSG 2017. Unclear dark orange color, small white head. Smell and taste are both really really sour, acidic, unripe fruits. Just too sour imo. Undrinkable.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2017
at 16:01
8/10
Tried
on 03 Jun 2017
at 19:25
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(Bottle sample @ CBC 2016 Yellow Session, Copenhagen) Pours a murky dark reddish orange. Nose as a deep, wet funk base, with tart cherry, sour cherry pie, light caramel malt, a bit biting. Flavour is quite tart, cherry is dominant, especially tart cherry flesh, some acetic acid, lactic as well, drying oak. Very tart and puckering overall. Light to medium bodied, soft carbonation. For my taste, the puckering sourness probably masks underlying complexity. Fairly nice nonetheless.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2017
at 17:34
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle sample @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2016. It's quite a huge headed one this, under all the foam there's a near clear pale golden thing waiting to enter my mouth. It smells really nice; a little woody and mild sour. Some tart berries, lingon and lots of strong cherries. Like it a lot. It's super smoothly sour in the mouth. Nor over the top vinegar sour, still there's lots of bretty, sour ones here. Delicious white currant, rhubarb and as mentioned, sour but not over the top. Lovely tasting. One of the few I could drink lots of from this brewer. 13.05.2016
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2017
at 07:09
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ CBC 2016. Pours a hazy golden pale orange color with a small white head. Has a fruity sour tart cherry aroma. Fruity sour tart woody cherry flavor. Has a fruity sour tart woody cherry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2017
at 07:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at SF Beer Week Opening Gala. Pours murky amber. Arona is lots of Brett and funk, some wine barrel in the background. Body is medium, really sour, quite tart, softly carbonated. Intense. Some wine left. Dry sour palate. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2017
at 03:25