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On The Shoulders Of Giants
The Rare Barrel
- From:
- The Rare Barrel
- California, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- 95
- Avg:
- 4.3 | pDev: 7.91%
- Reviews:
- 4
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 01, 2019
- Added:
- Jul 29, 2014
- Wants:
- 35
- Gots:
- 16
Golden Sour Beer Aged in Oak Barrels with Peaches and Jasmine Pearl Tea
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Reviewed by scottfrie from California
4.57/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.57/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Bottle into snifter.
A: Pours a ruby tinted caramel brown with a thin fluffy head that quickly faded to a lasting collar.
S: The nose is full of sour cherry and rich black cherry. This smells just like dark cherries in syrup used for cocktails and desserts. Smells like fresh preserves or jam.
T: Juicy and dark cherry notes are rich and thick. Dark base adds hints of caramel and leather. Hints of tannic cherry skins and pits in the finish. Slight honey-like sweetness as well. Clean tartness is acidic but mellow. Not as plain and bright of a tartness as their other beers, more depth.
M: One of their fuller bodied beers with a thicker and chewier mouthfeel. Soft carb isn't as spritzy and bright as many of their others.
O: This is one of the first bottles I've had from them with a bit of age on it so that may have something to do with it, but I thought this was more complex and richer than many of their other brews, at least ones that came out around the same time period or before. Great balance of rich semisweet cherry juice and dry, tannic and spicy flavors. Not bone dry, nice sugary finish. One of my favorites from them and one of the better cherry beers I've ever had.
Sep 29, 2015A: Pours a ruby tinted caramel brown with a thin fluffy head that quickly faded to a lasting collar.
S: The nose is full of sour cherry and rich black cherry. This smells just like dark cherries in syrup used for cocktails and desserts. Smells like fresh preserves or jam.
T: Juicy and dark cherry notes are rich and thick. Dark base adds hints of caramel and leather. Hints of tannic cherry skins and pits in the finish. Slight honey-like sweetness as well. Clean tartness is acidic but mellow. Not as plain and bright of a tartness as their other beers, more depth.
M: One of their fuller bodied beers with a thicker and chewier mouthfeel. Soft carb isn't as spritzy and bright as many of their others.
O: This is one of the first bottles I've had from them with a bit of age on it so that may have something to do with it, but I thought this was more complex and richer than many of their other brews, at least ones that came out around the same time period or before. Great balance of rich semisweet cherry juice and dry, tannic and spicy flavors. Not bone dry, nice sugary finish. One of my favorites from them and one of the better cherry beers I've ever had.
On The Shoulders Of Giants from The Rare Barrel
Beer rating:
95 out of
100 with
90 ratings
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