Ensorcelled (Batch 1)
(Batch of Ensorcelled)
The Rare Barrel in Berkeley, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.62
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Ensorcelled is a blend of our oak-aged red sour beer (Scott Tenorman) and oak-aged black Brettanomyces beer. After blending our red and black sours together, we added raspberries and let the beer age in barrels for a few more months.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Beer Merchants Tap - London. Pours unclear amber with a creamy, off-white head. Pretty good stuff, some raspberry, woody dryness, leathery berries, mellow vinegar. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Quenching finish, more leather, seedy raspberry, light wood, more acetic twang. Solid overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2018
at 23:12
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750 ml bottle into tulip glass; 2015 vintage bottling, blend #019. Pours fairly crystal clear dark ruby red/light brown color with a 1 finger fairly dense light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of huge sour/tart/tangy raspberries, fruit skin/seeds, cranberry, cherry, strawberry, lemon, orange, peach, plum, fig, pear, apricot, currant, red/green apple, red grape/wine, oak, hay, straw, grass, brown sugar, and toasted bread; with lighter notes of peppercorn, cocoa, oaken vanilla, leathery/musty/lacto funk, red wine vinegar, and yeast/oak earthiness. Incredible aromas with amazing balance and complexity of raspberries, fruity/funky/acidic yeast, dark/bready malts, and oak barrel notes; with big strength. Taste of huge our/tart/tangy raspberries, fruit skin/seeds, cranberry, cherry, strawberry, lemon, orange, peach, plum, fig, pear, apricot, currant, red/green apple, red grape/wine, oak, hay, straw, grass, brown sugar, and toasted bread; with lighter notes of peppercorn, cocoa, oaken vanilla, leathery/musty/lacto funk, red wine vinegar, and yeast/oak earthiness. Light-moderate fruity/lactic tart/sourness, fruit tang, and light yeast/oak spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of sour raspberries, fruit skin/seeds, cranberry, cherry, strawberry, lemon, orange, peach, plum, fig, pear, apricot, currant, red/green apple, red grape/wine, oak, hay, straw, grass, brown sugar, toasted bread, light leather/funk/vinegar, and yeast/oak earthiness on the finish for a while. Amazing complexity, robustness, and balance of raspberries, fruity/funky/acidic yeast, dark/bready malts, and oak barrel flavors; with an awesome malt/tart/sourness and tangy fruit balance; with no puckering/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness frrom lingering tart/sourness and tangy fruit, Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, fairly acidic/tangy, and lightly tannic balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 5.8%. Overall this is an amazing fruited sour red! All around incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of raspberries, fruity/funky/acidic yeast, dark/bready malts, and oak barrel flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the modestly acidic/tangy/tennic/drying finish, not overly lactic. Insanely jammy raspberries with balanced Brett/Lacto complexity, dark/bready malts, and nice oak presence. A highly enjoyable offering, and amazing style example. Best sour I have had from them so far.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Sep 2018
at 00:44
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at MBCC 2018 Red (session Trois), 11/05/18. Light reddish to black with a decent beige head. Nose is earthy, dirty red berries, funk, dry rot, basement notes, barnyard. Taste comprises stoned fruits, red berry skins, tarte berry skins, brett, vinous, fruit balsams. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close with a puckering rasp of acidity.
Tried
on 29 Jul 2018
at 14:39
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12th May 2018
MBCC 2018. Red. Pedal to the Metal session. Keg. Opaque dark brown beer, small pale tan head. Light dry palate, decent fine carbonation. Sourish red fruits. Touch of red wine. Quite a lemony dry finish. Fine.
MBCC 2018. Red. Pedal to the Metal session. Keg. Opaque dark brown beer, small pale tan head. Light dry palate, decent fine carbonation. Sourish red fruits. Touch of red wine. Quite a lemony dry finish. Fine.
Tried
on 13 Jul 2018
at 17:30
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
8-4-8-4-16
Bottle, vintage 2017, shared with BBGTC. Pours dark brown, with a creamy, off white head. Aroma is tart fruity notes of raspberries, musty fruit, blackberry jam and bretty floral notes, as well as minerals and earthy notes. Medium body, with average carbonation. Flavour is lactic acid and tart fruity notes of raspberries, musty fruit, fruit pits and bretty notes of dusty earth.
Bottle, vintage 2017, shared with BBGTC. Pours dark brown, with a creamy, off white head. Aroma is tart fruity notes of raspberries, musty fruit, blackberry jam and bretty floral notes, as well as minerals and earthy notes. Medium body, with average carbonation. Flavour is lactic acid and tart fruity notes of raspberries, musty fruit, fruit pits and bretty notes of dusty earth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2018
at 19:43
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle shared at beer merchants tap. Thanks to Leighton. A murky red brown coloured pour with a a halo of beige head. Aroma is woody acetic, raspberry. Jammy fruits, raspberry blackcurrant,. Flavour is composed of woody blackberry, raspberry culle, mild vinegar burn, jammy, woodland berry fruit. Palate is acid, higish, woody, highish carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2018
at 18:37
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Leighton. It pours hazy / murky brown with a small beige head. The aroma is fresh raspberry, juicy, fruit compote, jammy, tangy, wood, touch of funk, cacao and leather. The taste is crisp, dry, tart, tangy, juicy, raspberry action, jammy, musty, funky, oak, tannin, leather, granny smith apple, vinous and balsamic vinegar with a tangy, slightly acidic finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Good fun.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jun 2018
at 18:36
6/10
Tried
on 05 Jun 2018
at 18:32
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Draught at Trillium, Roslindale, 2/1/18.
Dark chestnut-mahogany with burgundy edges that show clarity. Dark beige head atop shows low retention.
Chocolate, bright berry and spicy tea lead to vanilla-raspberry. Lots of cocoa powder and malic acid; a bit disjointed. Some toasted malt character, light wood and moderate lactic acidity on the end.
In the mouth it's again super thin, very dry with tons of pepper, lactic acid, dull wood tannin and incredibly old, attenuated fruit. Chocolate and toast linger on the finish with low, somewhat loose carbonation. If, assumedly, these are quite old, it's surprising how thin and dull they've become. You'd expect more acidity to emerge from the bacteria, as the fruit fades, but instead they just overattenuate and remain peppery-phenolic and lightly vegetal.
Dark chestnut-mahogany with burgundy edges that show clarity. Dark beige head atop shows low retention.
Chocolate, bright berry and spicy tea lead to vanilla-raspberry. Lots of cocoa powder and malic acid; a bit disjointed. Some toasted malt character, light wood and moderate lactic acidity on the end.
In the mouth it's again super thin, very dry with tons of pepper, lactic acid, dull wood tannin and incredibly old, attenuated fruit. Chocolate and toast linger on the finish with low, somewhat loose carbonation. If, assumedly, these are quite old, it's surprising how thin and dull they've become. You'd expect more acidity to emerge from the bacteria, as the fruit fades, but instead they just overattenuate and remain peppery-phenolic and lightly vegetal.
Tried
on 30 May 2018
at 14:39
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Draught at MBCC red (third) session. Deep red-brownish body, patchy beige head, fair lacing. Mid-tart berries on the nose. Dry and tart taste of raspberries and brett added by a spicy touch. Prolonged ending. Just alright without further excitements. (Copenhagen 12.05.2018).
Tried
on 24 May 2018
at 06:02