The Rare Barrel

Microbrewery in Berkeley, California, United States πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
Owned by Cellarmaker Brewing Company
Associated Venue: The Rare Barrel

Established in 2012

Contact
940 Parker St, Berkeley, CA, CA 94710, United States
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.

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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 β€” 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 β€” 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