The Rare Barrel Creative Juices

Creative Juices

 

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

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular
Score
7.34
ABV: 5.4% IBU: - Ticks: 4
Golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with apricots, grapefruit and grapefruit peel.
 

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7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Draft. Orange-amber beer with a ream head. Sour and light apricot aroma. Sour and acetic flavor with apricot. Medium bodied. Sourness and acetic notes linger with grapefruit and apricot.

Tried from Draft on 29 May 2016 at 14:52


7.9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tap. Pours quite hazy golden orange, medium creamy off white head, dissipates fairly quickly, good lacing. Aroma is peach, hint of sulphur, citrus, light grass. Flavor captures lots of peach, followed by grapefruit, fairly tart with just a hint of musty funk. Medium body, soft on the palate, lingering tartness a blend of lactose and grapefruit zest. Pretty good.

Tried from Draft on 09 Jan 2016 at 22:03


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Tap at the brewery. Bright golden orange translucent coloured pour with a fading white froth. Aroma complex, funky horsey sour, pinch of lacto, hair spray, nice funky fruits, bitter lemon, grapefruit, tart apple. Some baby diaper funk on the nose as well. Flavour is funky, tart citrus fruit, grapefruit, spicy zesty fruit, horsey, tart sourness, crisp and slightly puckering. Palate is medium bodied, semi sweet and sour, effervescent, prickly drying finish. Lingering orange and grapefruit zested fruit. Really interesting fruity sour.

Tried from Draft on 13 Dec 2015 at 00:46


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Growler pour thanks to Spence. Pours out a cloudy lemon color topped with a small white ring of head. Nose is nice tangerines lemon zest spice tart. Taste is more of the citrus tangerines lemon maybe some stone fruit. This is great.

Tried from Growler on 06 Nov 2015 at 22:12