The Rare Barrel
Microbrewery
in
Berkeley,
California,
United States πΊπΈ
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 weβve come to desire. Yes, sour beers take an exceptionally long time to develop, but we think that sour beers are well worth the wait.
6.1/10
β
Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
750ml bottle at Matt's. Appearance: dirty purple with a weak dirty white head. Aroma: medicinal notes similar to rose hip berries, generic sour sweet berry character. Taste: along the same lines, quite sour, low body. Overall: nothing really interesting going on in here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2019
at 04:37
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
750mL bottle, pours a cloudy murky, rusted red with a small off-white head. Aroma is not particularly pleasant, with acetone, asshole, lavender, oak, and cinnamon. Flavour is full of acetone, followed by blueberry jam, tart and acidic berries, and some lavender. Extremely acidic, with lots of balsamic. Incompetent, overpriced garbage. Amazing that this brewery has a good reputation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2019
at 04:23
7.4/10
β
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
MBCC. Very dark brown with small head. Aroma is malt, sour fruit, oak, barrel and lemon. Flavour is malt, sour, citric, little bourbon, barrel, oak, wood, little sour fruit, medium sweet and a little dry.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2019
at 10:33
7.4/10
β
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
MBCC. Hazy peach with small head. Aroma is malt, fruit, lemon and berries,. Flavour is malt, fruit, lemon, sour, citric, medium sweet and quite sour.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2019
at 10:30
6.9/10
β
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
MBCC. Slightly hazy yellow with small white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, yeast, spices and perfume. Flavour is malt, fruit, yeast, spices, perfume, medium sweet, citric and a little dry.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2019
at 10:29
7.1/10
β
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
MBCC, 6.7%. Hazy brown with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, lemon, yeast, funk and spices. Flavour is malt, fruit, lemon, citric, little sour fruit, dark fruit and medium sweet and sour.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2019
at 10:23
6.5/10
β
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
MBCC. Hazy golden with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, lemon, yeast, funk and spices. Flavour is malt, fruit, lemon, ginger, citric medium sweet and a little dry.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2019
at 10:22
7/10
β
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
MBCC. Hazy golden with tiny head. Aroma is malt, fruit, lemon aand spices. Flavour is malt, fruit, spice,s lemon, citric, sour, salt and a little dry.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2019
at 10:21
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle pour at Weldwerks Invitational 2019. Hazy orange, white head. Quite fruity, peaches, nectarines, wood, medium+ sourness, acidic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2019
at 17:44
7/10
Wchuj kwasne, nieco owocowe, tak mandarynkowomorelowe, ryj wykrecony, 3.7
Tried
from Bottle
at
Mikkeller Bar Warsaw
on 06 Sep 2019
at 22:38