Barreled Souls Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Saco, Maine, United States πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
Associated Venue: Barreled Souls Brewing Company

Established in 2014

Contact
743 Portland Rd, Saco, ME, 04072, United States
Description
Barreled Souls Brewing Co. is owned and operated by Chris Schofield and Matthew Mills. Chris and Matt both grew up in Wells, ME and have been friends since the fourth grade. The idea of opening a brewery together came up many times over the years, usually while imbibing on some stellar examples of the craft. The conversation got serious in the summer of 2012 and two years later Barreled Souls was open for business.

Matt and Chris set out to create the kind of beers they would want to drink and the kind of brewery they would want to spend time at. This meant focusing on making a large variety of beers, using unique ingredients and processes paired with a large, comfortable and professionally run tasting room that carries 12 varieties on draft.

The brewery operates a fifty gallon brewing system. All of the beer produced at the brewery undergoes primary fermentation in oak barrels. The fermentation system is based off of the Burton Union system, which was a method of fermenting beer developed in England in the 1800’s. The benefits of this system are really three-fold.

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7.8/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 4 Overall 7
Draft at Otto’s. Jet black color brown head. Aroma of sweet brabdy vanilla and coffee. Taste is also sweet lightly boozy with brandy cocoa espresso and more vanilla. Very nice
Tried from Draft on 13 Jul 2018 at 23:16

7.8/10 β€” Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
4 oz. draft at the brewery. The flavor has tons of tropical, long lasting fruit, earthy/ danky galaxy, green leafy hops. Appropriate lighter body and juicy texture! Active engaging carbonation level. The best beer of the taste of flight hands down.
Tried from Draft on 05 Jul 2018 at 15:06

6.9/10 β€” Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
4 oz. draft at the brewery. Aroma and flavor are pretty good. Flavor is mild floral, tropical fruit, mango, medium pine like bitterness. Steady bitterness that also is complemented by lots of bready malt. Bitterness is borderline astringent. Honestly, about average overall.
Tried from Draft on 05 Jul 2018 at 15:02

6.9/10 β€” Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
4 oz. draft at the brewery. Bright red color that does indeed look like Kool-Aid. Aroma smells identical to Tropical Punch Kool-Aid. Interesting Gatorade flavor (sort of like the powdered Gatorade mix). Lots of salinity. Lighter body, It kind of works. But with such a high amount of salt, probably could drink a 16 oz. can alone.
Tried from Draft on 05 Jul 2018 at 14:55

7.2/10 β€” Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
4 oz. draft at The brewery. Pitch black color with fast dying tan head. Aroma is oak and mild traces of cognac. Pretty good flavor. Mild cognac, plenty of wood, mild chocolate. Body is a tad thinner than I like but overall good flavors.
Tried from Draft on 05 Jul 2018 at 14:49

5.2/10 β€” Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Draught at Publick House, 1/18/18. Hazy-to-heavily cloudy, cantaloupe-maize with a medium-sized, off-white head atop showing moderately-low retention. Big vegetal character from the mosaic mixes with pine, graham cracker and light caramel malt to produce a very uneven aroma of too much malt and acid. Tangy papaya, lime and dry, earthy, almost ashy notes clash and there's sharp ester and more bready malt. In the mouth it fares even worse. Hugely tangy, vegetal, over-boiled hop acids add pine, grapefruit, dirt, ash and way too much resin. Bready, woody, husky malts are thin and there's no supple base malt character to balance/soften things. Tangy, twangy, punchy bitterness and resin bordering spoiled fruit notes. Couldn't drink more than a sip or two. Awful.

Rerate on draught at the brewery, 12/22/22. Still not in love with it, and it's lightly twangy/punchy again with too much of a rollercoaster between sweet/soft/juicy and twangy/bitter/punchy. But it's not as horrible as it was the first time. Upping the score a bit.
Tried from Can on 24 May 2018 at 15:16

7.4/10 β€” Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle at BW tasting. Pours out crisp , bright amber. Aroma leads with pit fruit, some barrel notes, caramelly malts. Taste brings all the aroma elements together into a mildly sweet slick brew.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Apr 2018 at 18:47

6.8/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle pours out copper amber topped with a sand head. Nose is floral perfume notes and some sweetness. Tatse is more of the nice sweet malts perfume floral and a nice pit fruit.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Apr 2018 at 01:29

7.5/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle pours out crisp copper. Nose is sweet pit fruit barrel spice some caramel. Tatse is more of the nice sweet malts pit fruit barrel spice some caramel.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Apr 2018 at 01:26

7.9/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle pours out amber topped with a ring of a head. Nose is sweet marshmallow vanilla notes barrel kick. Tatse is more of the nice sweet marshmallow vanilla bourbon barrel kick.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Apr 2018 at 01:16