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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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fonefan (86114) reviewed
Wise Guise from The Rare Barrel
7 years ago
7.3/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Draught @ MBCC '19 [ Blue Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Copenhagen Celebration 2019, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark.[ As The Rare Barrel Wise Guise ].Unclear medium amber colour with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet malt, wine - grapes, oak, barrel - funk, light raspberry - citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and acidic with a average duration, sweet malt, oak, grapes. pale malt, barrel - funk, light raspberry, citrus - lemon - citric. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20190510] 7-3-8-3-16
Tried on 10 Jun 2019 at 15:13
Buckeyeboy (18930) reviewed
Home Sour Home (Bourbon Barrel) from The Rare Barrel
7 years ago
7.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
750ml bottle pours out hazy golden topped with a white head. Nose is cinnamon spice fruit plenty tart funky barrel notes. Taste is more of the cinnamon forward fruit tart pucker and a little bourbon barrel notes.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jun 2019 at 18:15
thebrewsader (2840) reviewed
Ensorcelled (Batch 1) from The Rare Barrel
7 years ago
7.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Thanks Walt for sharing the bottle! Taster showing amber brown with latte colored foam. The nose shows pronounced tart notes of raspberry and light brett. The palate is well carbonated and medium bodied. Moderately tart with forward notes of raspberry with light oak and brett.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jun 2019 at 12:47
panzerxiii (3977) ticked
Wise Guise (2018) from The Rare Barrel
7 years ago
9/10
Mad Brett, super tart
Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2019 at 23:11
rhoihessegold (9393) ticked
Wise Guise (2018) from The Rare Barrel
7 years ago
8/10
Oaky woody dominated. With a sharp rasperry acidity. Mild vanilla in the warming end. Great.
Tried from Draft at Muted Horn on 06 Jun 2019 at 11:29
saxo (30104) reviewed
Ensorcelled (Batch 1) from The Rare Barrel
7 years ago
7.5/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Sample @ MBCC 2019, red session. Nice head with good duration. Color is dark brown. Aroma and taste are lactose acid, fruits, malt, hops and has a nice sour finish.
Tried on 05 Jun 2019 at 16:33
Camons (21957) reviewed
Dubious Surprise from The Rare Barrel
7 years ago
7.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Draught @ MBCC 2019. Pours very dark brown with a tan head, lacings. Aroma of malt, light caramel, wood, oak, tart fruti. Flavor is sweet, lightly sour, malt, wood, caramel, vinegar, tart fruity. Medium body, average carbonation, dry and acidic finish. 110519
Tried on 05 Jun 2019 at 13:50
Camons (21957) reviewed
Stone Age Love from The Rare Barrel
7 years ago
7.5/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Draught @ MBCC 2019. Pours slightly hazy golden with a small offwhite head. Aroma of light sourness, malt, wood, oak, tart fruit, peach, cherries. Falvor is light sweet, sour, malt, wood, oak, light vinegar, tart fruity, cherries. Medium body, average carbonation, dry and acidic finish. 110519
Tried on 05 Jun 2019 at 13:47
Camons (21957) reviewed
Entanglement from The Rare Barrel
7 years ago
6.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Draught @ MBCC 2019. Pours clear light yellow with a white head. Aroma of light sourness, wheat, little vanilla, little oak, fruit, orange. Flavor is light sour, light sweet, wheat, oak, vanilla, orange. Medium body, average carbonation, dry finish. 110519
Tried on 05 Jun 2019 at 13:45
Camons (21957) reviewed
Wise Guise from The Rare Barrel
7 years ago
6.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Draught @ MBCC 2019. Pours slightly hazy reddish brown with an offwhite head. Aroma of malt, light sourness, wood, tart fruit, raspberry, light vinegar. Flavor is lightly sour, malt, wood, oak, vinegar, raspberry. Medium body, average carbonation, dry and light acidic finish. 100519
Tried on 05 Jun 2019 at 13:34