Feed the Monster
The Rare Barrel in Berkeley, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.62
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Golden sour aged in an oak barrel with blueberries.
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9/10
Backlog
Tried
on 03 Sep 2018
at 09:01
9/10
Backlog
Tried
on 03 Sep 2018
at 09:01
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
At a tasting, many thanks, murky palish red color, aroma of vinegar , berries and a hint of horse sweat, flavor of berries, sour fruit, minerals and strawberries, piercing but mellow vinegar sourness. Great lipsmacking fun.
Tried
on 14 Apr 2018
at 18:01
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle split at RB Best Encomium share, Santa Rosa, 30/01/16 - Many Thanks ! Hazed orange amber with an off white covering. Nose is tarte fruit, funk, vinegar strokes, light nostril pucker, damp barn. Taste comprises dirty fruit strokes, acidic bite, red berry tang, barnyard, oak, lemon rind, balsam. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close with a sharp acidic rise. Ok sour but overcooked on the acidic front and lacking balance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2017
at 09:45
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from a 0.75l bottle @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2016. This one has a pinkish almost dishwasher colored body with a nice little white sidesticking head on the top. Mild and gentle peach puree aromas with nuances of raspberries and strawberries. Some rhubarb also here. Sweet, yet tart. Really pleasant. It's quite on the sour side this. Feels nice and oily in the mouth and it's just below average on and prickling on the bubbles. Sharp and concentrated on the taste. More really sour rhubarb in the taste, white currant. Gentle sour raspberries in the aftertaste. Nice one! 14.05.2016
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2017
at 07:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught@CBC 2016. Hazy orange colour, small white head. Aroma is wooden, floral, some earthy and mild nectary notes. Flavour is tart, resiny, wooden, toffeeish and some earthy notes. Nice sourness to it.
Tried
on 14 Apr 2017
at 12:21
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @CBC 2016. Pours a hazy pale pinkish red color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity sour tart weak blueberry aroma. Fruity sour tart blueberry flavor. Has a fruity sour tart blueberry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2017
at 07:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Ratebeer awards show. 30/01/2016. Huge thanks! A hazey pink / peach coloured pour with a small pink head. Aroma is funky, boozey, brett, citric acid, sour. Flavour is composed of sour acidic, puckering acidity, raspberry sour tang. Good. Palate is spritzy carbonation, sweet and sour, tangy and grainy. Like it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2017
at 12:52
7.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 750ml. @ Craig’s House - Edinburgh. [ As The Rare Barrel Feed the Monster ].Clear light to medium amber red color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly to fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, tsart, blueberries, wood, floral. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate acidic with a long duration, tart, blueberries, funky, wood. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20160319] 8-2-8-4-16
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jan 2017
at 09:53
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle - pours blueberry white head - nose and taste of blueberry, funky oak, cinnamon and lactic acid - medium body
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2016
at 20:01