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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6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Pre-Borefts tasting. 75cl Bottle. Golden colour, white head. Aroma of grapes, lemon, funk, sour peaches. Flavour is quite sharp, lemon, acid, some raspberries, funk, yeast, tart finish. Light bodied.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Sep 2018 at 20:53

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Pre-Borefts Tasting at the Kim Jung Un Buurtcentrum in Zaandam. Thanks for sharing to the entire RB crowd here! Bottle shared. Pours slightly unclear golden with no head. Sour grain, sour lemons. Medium body and soft carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Sep 2018 at 20:52

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Bottle shared at pre-Borefts tasting. Bit hazy light golden with small white head. Lemon, sour grains, white wine vinegar, light herbs, spices, pure lemon juice. Very sour, light sweet and bitter. Medium bodied.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Sep 2018 at 20:52

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Borefts pre tasting, 2018. Poured a hazy yellow golden colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is yeast, citrus fruit. The flavour is moderate sour with a crisp, biscuit, yeast, tart citrus, acidic palate. Medium to light bodied with average carbonation.
Tried on 20 Sep 2018 at 20:39

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Bottle at Kim Jong Un Buurtcentrum Pre-Borefts ‘18, Zaandam. Near clear golden with no head. Aroma of light funk, mineral, citrus and lactic notes. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and above moderate sour. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Sep 2018 at 20:30

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Bottle - pours gold white head - nose/taste of stone fruit, peach, apricot, raspberry, sour oaky funk - medium body
Tried from Bottle on 15 Apr 2017 at 01:52

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
On draft at Caps & Taps. It pours a light orange color with an off white head. The aroma is strong with peaches, apricots and some light notes of graham cracker and barrel. Not getting the raspberry. The flavor is very intensely sour with a good balance of fruity of peach, apricot and raspberry. Little funk. The acidity is pretty clean with some light graham cracker malts in the background. A bit too strong with the acid, like most RB sours, but I enjoyed the five ounce pour I got. Any more would be too much.
Tried from Draft on 03 Apr 2017 at 08:30

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From bottle shared at Ratebeer Best awards and bottle-share. Hazy golden orange color with off white head. Malty and yeasty aroma, funky, dusty, barnyard, grass, light berries, stone fruits, wood. Light sweet, acidic and light bitter taste. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Mar 2017 at 14:16

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Bottle share. Peach colored body with small, active head, fizzy carbonation. Aroma leans more on the fruit essences, leaving the tartness in the back seat. Big fruity flavors abound, with a tough of sourness, not overdone. pretty damn smooth
Tried from Bottle on 04 Mar 2017 at 22:05

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[2/3/17] Draught/Bottle at Extreme Beer Fest in Boston. Hazy golden. Fruity, oak, vinegar, sour, acidic.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Feb 2017 at 07:54