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The Rare Barrel - Across the Sea
Style: Sour
ABV: 5.80%     

A blend of golden sour beers aged in oak barrels with coriander and sea salt, this beer has whispers of a style almost lost in time. Fermented and soured with a medley of microorganisms, across the sea is where you’ll find the undercurrents of citrus and tides of brine that flow to a bay of liquid gold.

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The Rare Barrel - All Systems Go
Style: Sour
ABV: 6.30%     

Golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with Ritual Coffee’s Kolla Bolcha Ethiopian coffee beans.

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The Rare Barrel - Apropos of Nothing
Style: American Wild Ale
ABV: 6.80%     

Golden Sour Beer Aged in Oak Barrels with Elderberries and Lavender. Born from an impromptu blending session, Apropos of Nothing is a golden sour beer fermented in oak and aged with elderberries and lavender. In turn, this beer highlights the unique characteristics of both the fruit and flower. With hints of blackberry, lemon, and honey, this lightly tart sour beer is a jammy and refreshing beverage.

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The Rare Barrel - Avec des Amis
Style: Sour Fruited
ABV: 7.10%     

This collaborative sour is a blend of golden sour beers aged in oak barrels selected with friends from Side Project Brewing. Refermented with fresh Summer Sweet white peaches and Viking Pearl white nectarines from Blossom Bluff Orchards, Avec des Amis is bold with fresh juicy peach character and a tart nectarine finish.

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The Rare Barrel - Blurred Chenin Blanc
Style: Grape Ale
ABV: 9.70%     

Golden sour aged in oak barrels with Chenin Blanc grapes.

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The Rare Barrel - Blurred PsM
Style: American Wild Ale
ABV: 7.70%     

Somewhere between beer and wine, the flavors found in this beer blur the lines. With a wine-like acidity and tannic finish, Blurred PsM showcases a mixture of second use grapes to create a blend with a bouquet of fresh strawberry and black pepper, notes of mixed berry preserves, and a hint of lemon rind.

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The Rare Barrel - Boardwalk Bender
Style: Sour IPA
ABV: 8.60%     

Miami Vice Sour Double IPA with Strawberry, Pineapple, Coconut, and Vanilla. Miami Vice was originally a collaboration foggy IPA brewed at Humble Sea, in Santa Cruz, CA

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The Rare Barrel - Danny Boi
Style: American Wild Ale
ABV: 6.90%     


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The Rare Barrel - Earl of Granate
Style: Sour Fruited
ABV: 7.70%     

Golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with pomegranate and earl grey tea

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The Rare Barrel - Ever-Changing And Eternal
Style: Sour
ABV: 7.20%     

A golden sour beer brewed and blended to emulate carrot cake. Conditioned on carrot juice and vanilla bean, then infused with cinnamon and nutmeg. It’s a fitting treat to celebrate a wonderful year of beers.

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The Rare Barrel - Ever-Changing And Eternal (2020)
Style: Sour
ABV: 7.20%     

A golden sour beer brewed and blended to emulate carrot cake. Conditioned on carrot juice and vanilla bean, then infused with cinnamon and nutmeg. It’s a fitting treat to celebrate a wonderful year of beers.

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The Rare Barrel - Forces Unseen
Style: American Wild Ale
ABV: 5.50%     

Golden sour aged in oak barrels.

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The Rare Barrel - Juice Elixir
Style: Sour
ABV: 7.30%     

Golden Sour Beer Aged in Oak Barrels with Orange, Carrot, and Ginger Juice Elixir is a concoction of three distinct flavors coming together to create one potent potable. With a spicy warmth from the ginger, a lush sweetness from the carrots, and a bright citrus aroma from the orange, this beer is overflowing with juiciness. Super refreshing and zingy, Juice Elixir is a treat in a glass.

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The Rare Barrel - Juice Elixir (2020)
Style: Sour Fruited
ABV: 7.30%     

Golden Sour Beer Aged in Oak Barrels with Orange, Carrot, and Ginger Juice Elixir is a concoction of three distinct flavors coming together to create one potent potable. With a spicy warmth from the ginger, a lush sweetness from the carrots, and a bright citrus aroma from the orange, this beer is overflowing with juiciness. Super refreshing and zingy, Juice Elixir is a treat in a glass.

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The Rare Barrel - Map of the Sun
Style: Sour Fruited
ABV: 7.70%     

A Golden sour with Apricots

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The Rare Barrel - More Mango
Style: Sour Fruited
ABV: 7.50%     

Golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with mangoes.

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The Rare Barrel - Once Upon A Dream
Style: Sour
ABV: 6.80%     

Golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with red currants

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The Rare Barrel - Pinkish (2021)
Style: Sour Fruited
ABV: 7.10%     

Golden Sour Beer Aged in Oak Barrels with Strawberry, Red Currant, Raspberry, Tart Cherry, and Pinot Noir Grapes Some beers just look pretty in pink, and this beer is no exception! We took all of the pinkish fruits we could think of and aged them in oak barrels with a golden sour base. Loaded with strawberry, red currant, raspberry, tart cherry, and pinot noir grapes, Pinkish is a truly fruity delight.

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The Rare Barrel - Poptropica
Style: Barrel Aged Sour
ABV: 7.20%     

Golden Sour Aged in Oak Barrels w/ Pineapple and Key Lime

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The Rare Barrel - Raging Waters
Style: Sour
ABV: 6.20%     

Golden Sour Beer aged in oak barrels with watermelon. Higher ABV (6.2%) than the original version (5.2%.)

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The Rare Barrel - Soakin Up Rays
Style: Sour Fruited
ABV: 7.90%     

Golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with pink guava and passion fruit

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The Rare Barrel - Solidarity Forever
Style: American Wild Ale
ABV: 6.10%     

Brewed in solidarity with the Bay Area Chapter of the Pink Boots Society, this year’s iteration of Solidarity Forever was hopped with the 2018 Pink Boots Society hop blend, then open fermented before it was aged in oak barrels for 6 months.

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The Rare Barrel - Stone Age Love
Style: American Wild Ale
ABV: 7.80%     

Stone Age Love is a blend of golden sour beers aged in oak barrels with tart cherries. Fermented with Brettanomyces anomala, saison yeast, and a Belgian mixed culture, Stone Age Love is an homage to classic cherry sour beers. This sour showcases notes of fresh-picked cherries, tart lemonade, and hints of noyaux.

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The Rare Barrel - Straw Di Da Di
Style: Sour
ABV: 8.30%     

Golden Sour Ale Aged in Oak Barrels With Fresh Strawberries

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The Rare Barrel - Strawberry Small Acts (2021)
Style: Grisette
ABV: 4.40%     

Grisette-Style Beer Aged in Oak Barrels with Fresh Strawberries Small Acts is our interpretation of a classic low ABV mixed fermentation beer. For this special rendition, we decided to amp up the flavor with the addition of fresh fruit. After initial fermentation, the beer is further aged on freshly macerated strawberries yielding a bright, fragrant, and fresh beverage.

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The Rare Barrel - Strawberry Whine 21
Style: Imperial Sour
ABV: 8.10%     

Mixed Fermentation Beer with Fresh Strawberries Strawberry Whine is packed with literal tons of hand processed fresh strawberries from our friends at Tomatero Farms in Watsonville, CA. Redolent of homemade preserves and warm pie on the windowsill, this beer oozes with overt jaminess. Layered with notes of hot July moons and tastes of love, Strawbeery Whine is a road trip down memory lane.

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The Rare Barrel - Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset, Repeat
Style: Sour IPA
ABV: 7.90%     

Golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with strawberries and pineapples

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The Rare Barrel - Supersonic Boom
Style: Sour Fruited
ABV: 7.30%     

Golden sour beer aged in oak barrels with tart cherries and key limes

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The Rare Barrel - Sweet Splash (2021)
Style: Fruited Sour
ABV: 8.10%     

Mixed Fermentation Beer Aged in Oak Barrels with Yellow Nectarines and Yellow Peaches A blend of six, nine, and eleven month old barrels was aged upon 3000lbs of Grand Bright Yellow Nectarines and Summer Zee Yellow Peaches to create this vibrant beverage. With an overwhelming amount of stone fruit expression, Sweet Splash is one of our most aromatic beers to date. Reminiscent of peach gummy rings and fresh fruit smoothies, this beer exudes the sweet warmth of summertime.

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The Rare Barrel - Together We're Better
Style: American Wild Ale
ABV: 5.60%     

Golsen sour beer aged in oak barrels with pineapple, passion fruit, cherry, guava, and peach.

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The Rare Barrel - Wise Guise (2020)
Style: Sour
ABV: 6.50%     

Red sour beer aged in oak barrels with raspberries

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The Rare Barrel - Yee-Haw Friday
Style: Sour Fruited
ABV: 7.20%     

Golden Sour Beer Aged in Oak Barrels with Pineapple, Strawberry, Cherry, Blood Orange, Raspberry, Peach, and Nectarine

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