About
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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CLW (17538) reviewed
Quaker State - Cognac from Barreled Souls Brewing Company
8 years ago
7.2/10 — 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
Clarkvv (17430) reviewed
Paper Planes from Barreled Souls Brewing Company
8 years ago
5.2/10 — 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
stevoj (19093) reviewed
Honey Pot - Hillrock Rye from Barreled Souls Brewing Company
8 years ago
7.4/10 — 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
Buckeyeboy (18930) reviewed
Big Bang from Barreled Souls Brewing Company
8 years ago
6.8/10 — 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
Buckeyeboy (18930) reviewed
Honey Pot - Hillrock Rye from Barreled Souls Brewing Company
8 years ago
7.5/10 — 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
Buckeyeboy (18930) reviewed
Honey Pot - Hillrock Single Malt from Barreled Souls Brewing Company
8 years ago
7.9/10 — 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
Buckeyeboy (18930) reviewed
Big Bang - Woodford Reserve Bourbon from Barreled Souls Brewing Company
8 years ago
7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle pours out amber topped with a tan head. Nose is nice sweet bourbon barrel pit fruit. Tatste is nice bourbon barrel notes some booze and plenty toffee.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Apr 2018 at 01:05
Clarkvv (17430) reviewed
Blue Steel from Barreled Souls Brewing Company
8 years ago
6.8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Draught at Canary Square, 10/11/17.
Lightly-to-moderately hazy, brass-golden with a smattering of white head atop receding rapidly to a ring.
Very fruity nose, mixing with light lactic acid and base malt to give a sort of "fruity pebbles" sort of nose to it. Some Brett emerging more strongly helps dispel this, however, and it gains more of a lime and mineral edge to it. Can't really nail down the fruit as it's mostly soft aromatics and quite fructose-derived, it seems (could just be malt-dominated). Still, it's clean enough and despite the strong cereal character, seems pretty on par with an American sour.
Lightly sweet, honey, hay, grain, cereal and lactic acidity mix with blueberry juice. Light grape-like acidity, low, moderately engaging carbonation and a fairly malty texture lead to a lightly tart, lactic and light Brett-laden finish with lingering blueberry sugar and light skin notes.
Tried from Can on 14 Mar 2018 at 15:00
jtclockwork (20057) reviewed
Stay Puft - Hillrock Bourbon from Barreled Souls Brewing Company
8 years ago
7.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle - pours dark brown tan head - nose and taste of bourbon, oak, graham cracker, chocolate and marshmallow - medium body
Tried from Bottle on 26 Feb 2018 at 15:35
jtclockwork (20057) reviewed
Stay Puft - Peanut Butter from Barreled Souls Brewing Company
8 years ago
3.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 6 Overall 2.5
Bottle - pours dark brown tan head - big gusher - nose and taste of green pepper, peanut shell, chlorine, chocolate and marshmallow - medium body. Something's not right here.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Feb 2018 at 15:34