Purple Rain
Barreled Souls Brewing Company
- From:
- Barreled Souls Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.27 | pDev: 8.9%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 10, 2025
- Added:
- Sep 27, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by LeRose from Massachusetts
3.8/5 rDev -11%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.8/5 rDev -11%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a kinda rusty brown color with no appreciable head. Little ring of microbubbles on the edge. It's a bit murky.
Smells fruity, obviously. A mild melange of cherry and blackberry with just a wee bit of vanilla. So far, so good - it would have been easy to go over the top with this.
The taste is lively but surprisingly sweet - dark/sweet cherry sweet. Fruit-driven tartness comes through clearly. The cherry is there just enough to notice without the cough syrup thing that can happen. The blackberry is fantastic - very fresh with a nice bite. The vanilla is suitably restrained and mellows out the fruitiness. I get a little black tea taste. The base beer is present as a little crackery malt.
The sweetness keeps this from being totally refreshing - its not syrupy or sticky but it weighs things down just a little. Prickly carbonation.
Overall the flavors make this work and they are judiciously applied. The tartness is from the fruit and its fairly mild.
Aug 10, 2025Smells fruity, obviously. A mild melange of cherry and blackberry with just a wee bit of vanilla. So far, so good - it would have been easy to go over the top with this.
The taste is lively but surprisingly sweet - dark/sweet cherry sweet. Fruit-driven tartness comes through clearly. The cherry is there just enough to notice without the cough syrup thing that can happen. The blackberry is fantastic - very fresh with a nice bite. The vanilla is suitably restrained and mellows out the fruitiness. I get a little black tea taste. The base beer is present as a little crackery malt.
The sweetness keeps this from being totally refreshing - its not syrupy or sticky but it weighs things down just a little. Prickly carbonation.
Overall the flavors make this work and they are judiciously applied. The tartness is from the fruit and its fairly mild.
Reviewed by jseidl from New Jersey
4.85/5 rDev +13.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.85/5 rDev +13.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
This is an awesome sour. Had it on tap at Novare Res in Portland. Made with Blackberry, Cherry & Vanilla. Wish I did not have to fly home as I would have swung by and gotten some.
Sep 27, 2021
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