Sourtooth Tiger
The Rare Barrel

 

 

 

 

 

 

2019-09-15
750ml bottle poured into a pair of WABL glasses. Don't see a date on it, but there's an 18 under their logo that makes me think it's probably a 2018 bottle.

Pours clear golden with a small head sustained by a lot of carbonation. Smell is mild tartness and strong ginger.

Taste is tart and ginger -- makes me think very clearly of the pickled ginger that came with my dumplings the last time I ate at the Dough Zone.

Mouthfeel is light, clean, and effervescent. Overall, it's a good beer.

Golden body with some white lacing. Smell has that ginger with plenty of oak, but I also get orange, peach, lime, and slight funk. Taste I thought was executed to a deeper degree than the rest of the beer, everything is so intentional. Oak backing looms large, both in wood and sour pucker, ginger and citrus cut in wonderfully, leading to a finish of ginger, mango, lime, candied peach, lemon, orange, melon, hay, slight brett/barrel funk, and lingering acidity. Feel is sour, slightly acidic in the finish, and bright.

 

Nice golden body with a soft opaqueness and a creamy off-white head of various-sized bubbles that leaves some uneven but strong lacing.

Not really getting any of the advertised ginger in the nose, and the barrel characteristics are extremely mild. Very crisp and cidery personality. Funky and sharp, citrusy with pleasant white grape and pear notes, herbal and grassy. Very solid, but not charting any new territory here. Would have really liked a noticeable ginger presence.

Flavors follow the nose, with a heavy crisp cider front end, followed by notes of pear, light citrus, white wine, some Brett personality, and a distinct but not abrasive funk. Definitely tart and funky but not sour, and very dry. Again, really only picking up the faintest of ginger notes, if any at all, and the only hint (for me) of barrel aging is the layered (but mild) complexity and hints of oak.

Well is well-carbonated, medium-light In feel, very dry, slightly puckering, and very refreshing.

 

Tasted in a Rastal Teku from a 1 pint 9.4 fl oz bottle on February 2, 2018. A golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with ginger. Fermented with a collection of microorganisms, this sour beer showcases a tame acidity to pair with a ginger bite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2016 vintage bottle. The look is hazy golden color with minimal head! The smell is vanilla, vinous, oak, citrus, tobacco. The taste is more tart than those robust smells, but still good. The feel is light, dry, and effervescent! Overall a delicious sour

 

 

A: Poured into a Duvel tulip to a light gold topped by a finger and a half of dense white head that fades quickly to a small collar around the edge of the glass with minimal lacing
S: Smells of lots of ginger with some hints of sourness. Touch of oak and funk as well.
T: Taste is some nice and bright tartness up front with some ginger spice to provide some balance along with a hint of funky oak. There is a hint of cracker like pale malt from time to time as well. Ginger is really the star of the show and complements the acidity well. Swallow is more ginger, a little funk and oak with some light lingering sourness.
M: This beer is on the lighter side of medium in body with effervescent carbonation that does not reach the point of being prickly and a drying finish from the acidity.
O: I was not sure how this beer would be but it has some nice flavors and complexity. Ginger sounds odd at first but The Rare Barrel made it work. Definitely one to try if you don't mind flavors that are pretty far outside of the box in your beer.

 

 

 

 

 

Straw yellow in color with a hazy complexion and a fingernail of dishwater white on top. The aroma is pear, green apple, ginger, and some tropical funk. The taste is a burst of tropical fruit with mango, pear, green apple, pineapple, and a restrained amount of ginger (which is so easy to overdo). The mouth is highly carbonated, dry, and crisp.