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.
8/10
Kiwis yo. 🥝🥝🥝🥝🥝
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2019
at 18:17
8/10
Citrusy boi
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Nov 2019
at 14:20
7/10
Light peachy thang
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Nov 2019
at 14:19
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can. Amber beer with a cream head. Tart aroma with tropical fruit. Light sour and tropical fruit flavor with light grapefruit. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Light sourness lingers with tropical fruit and light grapefruit.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Nov 2019
at 23:59
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap. Pours hazy pale yellow, medium white head, good lacing. Aroma is hoppy tartness, mango, guava. Flavor is light plus tart, loads of tropical hops, lemon drops, hints of lime, mango, lemongrass. Medium body. Quite nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Nov 2019
at 21:53
9/10
Plenty of fruity notes with a solid peachy finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2019
at 21:04
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle thanks to Bursprak and Lukasmh. Pours hazy orange with a fizzy offwhite head. Aromas of lactic tartness, vinegar, tannins, raspberries, mold, oak. Taste has cherries, lactic, moldy, vinegar, oak, tannins, funk.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:55
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is very oaky, vanilla, light vinegary, lots of stone fruits - can’t believe there’s no fruit in this! Wow. Musky basement, leathery, citrussy with a nice lactose tartness. Taste has the same jammy stone fruits and citrus going on. Oaky, funky, musky, lemon zesty, lactic in the back. Very surprised about this!
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:55
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle @ Dangerous Bottleshares. Pours hazy orange with a medium white head. Aromas of apricots, lots of oak, funk, vinegary, lactic. Taste is apricots, oaky, vanilla, funky, some green apples, sweet candied apricots, lactic, funky. Really liking these Rare Barrel burz.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:55