The Rare Barrel
Microbrewery
in
Berkeley,
California,
United States 🇺🇸
Owned by
Cellarmaker Brewing Company
Associated Venue: The Rare Barrel
Established in 2012
Contact
Description
Picture yourself eating a handful of red raspberries, drinking a glass of fresh squeezed lemonade, or sipping on a glass of fine wine. Those sour, tart, and acidic flavors you are currently imagining are what makes sour beer taste quite different from traditional beers. These flavors, which are unique to sour beers, are the product of time and the right mix of microorganisms. While our sour beers age in oak barrels for an average of one year, a blend of microorganisms will shape the sour, tart, and acidic flavors that we’ve come to desire. Yes, sour beers take an exceptionally long time to develop, but we think that sour beers are well worth the wait.
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared at the craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. Many thanks. A haxed golden orange coloured pour with a halo of white head. Aroma is soft wheat. Milky wheat, grass. Orange, lemon rind, salt. Cracker. Lemon rind. Palate is tangy, salty. Prickly, highish carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2024
at 20:29
7/10
Tried
on 17 Oct 2024
at 20:22
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
17th October 2024
Bottleshare at CBJ. Thanks to Colin. Just a light haze on this pale gold beer, thin white head. Airy and pretty dry palate, decent fine carbonation. Thin dry malts, aged tasting. Dried fruits. Mild tart fruits. Dry finish. Hard work.
Bottleshare at CBJ. Thanks to Colin. Just a light haze on this pale gold beer, thin white head. Airy and pretty dry palate, decent fine carbonation. Thin dry malts, aged tasting. Dried fruits. Mild tart fruits. Dry finish. Hard work.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2024
at 20:13
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draft. Dark purple beer with a purple-cream head. Tart, blackberry aroma. Blackberry and light sour flavor with light oak. Medium bodied. Blackberry and light sourness linger with light oak.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Oct 2024
at 16:14
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Rassia tasting. Pale reddish orange with white foam. Slightly tart berries, citrus, plum, oak. A bit on the acetic side.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2024
at 21:36
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Rassia tasting. Clear golden with white head. Citrus forward with some tartness, oak, grass. Funky, refreshing. Way better than I anticipated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2024
at 21:08
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours clear rose pink, medium pinkish-white head, dissipates slowly, good lacing. Aroma is vinous, grape, wine, dust, Brett, oak, lemon, basement. Flavor is light tart, light plus funk, a bit dusty, vinous. Medium body; quite nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2024
at 15:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Just unclear amber with white head that's soon less than a coat but never quite disappears. Fruity, woody and Bretty aroma with berries and old lemons, some stone fruit. Quite tart but mellow with gentle stone fruit and a little tropical sweetness as well as oak fattening things out a bit. No bitterness, only a little Bretty zing. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2024
at 11:39
8/10
Medium high acidity but packing tons of apricot flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2024
at 14:37
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours clear golden, anak white head, good lacing. Aroma is stonefruit, floral, lemon oak, bugs, green tea. Flavor is light plus tart, light plus funk, stonefruit. Merlin body, mineral. Quite good
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2024
at 00:37