The Rare Barrel Gifted Branch

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The Rare Barrel in Berkeley, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production
Score
7.84
ABV: 6.7% IBU: - Ticks: 17
Golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with bushels of peaches and a dash of apricots. We formed layers of bright stonefruit character by blending a unique mix of microorganisms with our fondness for apricots and peaches. This golden sour beer features an aroma of fresh dewy peach skins with flavors of fresh juicy peaches and a hint of tart apricots.
 

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7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle at home. As 7,7 % ABV. One year old. Pours a cloudy pale orange colour with a small off-white head. Aroma of oak, heather, apricots, plums and peaches. Flavour of grape skin, oak, apricots, green apples, peach candy and lemon. Has a slick mouth feel, medium body and a soft bitterness. Fruity and sour. One of a kind.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Sep 2022 at 18:49

7.6/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle 375ml @ home Pours slightly hazy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, funk, oak, peach and hint of apricot. Taste is light sweet and medium sour with a long slightly dry, peach, apricot, oak and funky finish. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Mar 2022 at 20:24

8/10
Tried on 05 Jul 2021 at 15:44

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle at home. Pours golden, nose is funk, oak, fruity, taste is tart, zesty, juicy fruit, oak.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Jul 2021 at 14:44

8.6/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle, 750 ml at Miro B's Grande tasting. Shared with him, Max and JFK10000. Hazy yellow, small white head. Fruity, citric, peach, nice medium+ sourness, funk. Nice. Smooth. Medium bodied.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jan 2021 at 06:49

8/10
Still a bit acidic on the finish but tons of apricot and peach flavor upfront. And nice funk. Gnarly aging. Thanks Jose G. !
Tried from Bottle on 10 May 2020 at 17:07

9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 9
Bottle in Blåbær Lambik queue @ Himmeriget, Copenhagen. Pours hazy golden with a small white head. Notes of ripe peaches, lactic tartness, light funk, citrus and oak.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2019 at 16:54

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
At ratebeer best pours out golden topped with a fizzy white head. Nose is big sweet peach apricot some leather oak vanilla. Taste is more of the nice stone fruit combo jammy and still plenty tart pucker notes.
Tried on 04 May 2018 at 19:58

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Hazed deep golden color with a fine white head. Solid fruity aroma. Medium + body and a fine mellow carbonation level. Ok balance between sweetness and acidity. Dry ending. Fruity, citric, yeast and some oak in the flavor. Solid tasty and refreshing stuff.
[Bottle at The Blåbær Lambik 2017 Release queue outside Himmeriget in Copenhagen, Denmark]

Brewery #1724
Tried from Bottle on 07 Jul 2017 at 17:27

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle @ Blåbær 2017 release. Grab the train. Pours Hazy Golden with a White head. Thanks to Hoprider. Funk, apricot, Wood. Tartish and dry. Dope.
Tried from Bottle on 05 Jul 2017 at 07:34