Barrel-Aged Cedar Oak
We are pleased to announce that Barrel-Aged Cedar Oak bottles are now available at the brewery! This bottle-conditioned farmhouse beer was mashed in an oak puncheon, boiled over a wood fire in our copper kettle, and brewed with eastern red cedar. It was fermented with our wild house mixed culture and aged in an oak puncheon for a year with a native wild yeast. This beer is a Scratch favorite that takes on a prominent cedar presence to complement our house yeast character in tandem with a light vanilla flavor. The oak aging adds a bit more acidity and tannic character to better showcase the cedar and oak profiles. It's packaged in 750 ml bottles at 6.6% alcohol by volume for $20 and is ready for your enjoyment now or can be kept in your home cellar for several years. There will be no reservations on this beer and bottles are available first-come, first-served.
The oak aging calculator isn't useless because your closet swings 15°F daily. It gives a stable baseline; the barrel-aging timeline worksheet should correct that baseline for drift, not replace it. A 6.6% beer with eastern red cedar may still change over three years, but the calculator is where I'd start. For mapping weekly swings against a steady cellaring reference, barrel-aging timeline worksheet helps. First-come, first-served from 900 miles stings regardless.
6.6% and built for cellaring assumes a stable 55°F corner I don't have. My closet swings 15°F daily. The eastern red cedar would go harsh long before three years, same as my cedar porter. So the oak aging calculator's answer is useless here; I used a barrel-aging timeline worksheet to map weekly temperature drift instead. First-come, first-served still stings from 900 miles away.
I grabbed a bottle on day one, and that eastern red cedar really comes through after the yeast settles. The light vanilla note surprised me—I expected more pine. I brewed a cedar porter once, but it went harsh fast. This one’s 6.6% and built for cellaring, so I used an oak aging calculator to decide whether to wait three years or crack it now. First-come, first-served makes sense for a Scratch favorite.
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