The Rare Barrel There Are Rules

There Are Rules

 

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

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular
Score
7.38
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks: 24
There Are Rules is a golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with raspberries, apricots, and peaches. Fermented with a combination of microorganisms, this golden sour beer strikes up aromas of bergamot and fresh picked raspberries and is pinned with flavors of tart raspberries, ripe apricots, and juicy peaches
 

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6.5

Tried from Bottle from Billie’s Bottle Shop on 29 Nov 2020 at 22:42


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

750ml bottle. Funky, vinegary and sourish with some berries and fruits. Okay.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Nov 2020 at 20:44


8

Still gnarly good, I need to find 2018, tons of raspberry jam nose, stone fruit forward and finish, nice blend of fruit funk. Bit of an acidic finish but that's the rare barrel yo!

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jun 2020 at 22:43


8

2020 the year of popping cellar wilds, calling it.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Jan 2020 at 21:16


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared at Prodigal Son share. Thanks Shu! Pours a clearish gold with a finger of white foam that dissipates. Big stone fruit aromas with apricot and peach with jammy berry notes as it warms. Tart with lactic acidity on the palate. More berry and stone fruit notes with a crisp, clean and tart finish.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2019 at 23:50


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Pours rather clear blonde. Small white head. Smell is full, tart, very fruity. Raspberries, apricot. Taste is intensely tart, ( way to sour). Full fruityness. Very pleasant blend of fruits, shame for the I balanced sourness that seems to be there rather to be sour, than to make a good beer that happens to be sour. This is not the balans I expect from a well made sour ale.

Tried on 02 Oct 2019 at 15:39


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle 750ml. @ [ Pre-Borefts tasting 2018 ] by kermis in Kim Jong-Un Buurtcentrum Zaandam, Noord-Holland. [ As The Rare Barrel There Are Rules ].Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate hoppy, moderate yeasty, barnyard, leather, tart, peach, apricot, raspberry, sour lemon. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light to moderate acidic with a long duration, tart, dry, peach, apricot, raspberry, lemony. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20180920] 8-3-8-3-15

Tried from Bottle on 22 Dec 2018 at 15:32


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Pre-Borefts Tasting at the Kim Jung Un Buurtcentrum in Zaandam. Thank you for sharing! 750 ml. bottle. Golden, orange, citrus,… Raspberry nose with lemon & USA acidic sour profile, fizzy,… Fizzy USA acidic lemon, USA vinegar raspberry profile, lemon, acidic, acetone, vinegar USA fizzy, too USA acidic raspberry & peach, fizzy.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Sep 2018 at 21:05


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Unclear golden color with white head. Aroma is apricots, peach, raspberries, light acetone and sharp barrel flavours. Taste is apricots, lightly acetonic, earthy, grains. Oily mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Classic Rare Barrel.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Sep 2018 at 10:29


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Relativ süffiger, stark säuerlicher Beginn. Spritzig, etwas Pfirsich, intensiv, langer Abgang. Vollmundig, gut. 10/11/10/11/12/11

Tried on 20 Sep 2018 at 21:11