Five New Bottles This Week!
- Dec 10, 2018
- 2 min read
We are pleased to announce that five new bottles are now available at the brewery! Just in time for the holiday season, we have three brand new beers, one returning favorite in a differently-sized bottle, and a barrel-aged version of one of our brewery favorites.
All of these beers are available starting this week, meaning that they will also all be available at this Sunday's Holiday Art & Beer Bazaar alongside our Native Fruit Beer Series Release! There are no limits on any of these bottles and they are all available first-come, first-served. The descriptions are all below with notes particular to each offering.
Turmeric Tonic ($10) A sour farmhouse beer brewed without hops, made with grain from Sugar Creek Malt, bittered and flavored with turmeric from our garden and wild-harvested nettle, and fermented with our wild house mixed culture. This beer was made as something akin to a late summer version of our Spring Tonic, in that the nettle was harvested near the end of that season and the turmeric provides a slightly more earthy, root addition as opposed to the ginger. 5.8% abv • 355 ml
Wild Blueberry (White Rooster collaboration; $12) A beer brewed in collaboration with our friends at White Rooster in Sparta, Illinois. Brewed at Scratch and fermented with our house yeast, the beer was finished with White rooster’s mixed culture in a chardonnay barrel for 18 months. After the beer had developed a beautiful complexity from the microflora during barrel aging, we refermented the beer on Southern Illinois-grown blueberries. 7.9% abv • 355 ml
Mumm ($15) A bottle-conditioned sour ale brewed without hops. bittered and flavored with sage, basil, lemon thyme, rosemary, and lavender from our garden and fermented with our wild house mixed culture. We have previously offered a barrel-aged version of this beer in 330 ml bottles and, as with many Scratch beers, different years' batches taste slightly different depending on the amount of each plant added. 4.2% abv • 500 ml
Barrel-Aged Apple Ale ($20) A bottle-conditioned sour ale brewed without hops, made with grain from our friends at Sugar Creek Malt and re-fermented with pressed juice from Southern Illinois apples. Aged for a year in puncheons that previously held red wine. This beer is a new staff favorite, with flavors reminiscent of a barrel-aged cider. 5.7% abv • 500 ml
Barrel-Aged Blackberry and Lavender ($20) A bottle-conditioned sour ale brewed without hops, bittered and flavored with Southern Illinois-grown, blackberries and lavender and fermented with our wild house mixed culture. Aged for one year in a red wine puncheon. One of the most popular Scratch beers we've offered, but this version also contains beautiful notes of oak complexity. 5.5% abv • 500 ml
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What an exciting release! The Wild Blueberry collaboration with White Rooster sounds particularly intriguing, especially with the 18 months in a chardonnay barrel and the Southern Illinois blueberries – that's some serious dedication to flavor. With such unique ingredients and processes, I'd love to see what kind of creative label art they come up with for these! I've been playing around with a [Free AI Image Generator] recently, and it's amazing for visualizing concepts like that.
a name numerology calculator and a fantasy name generator helped our tasting group find a name that felt meaningful, an animal generator gave us our mascot, a moon sign calculator and Chinese calendar tool add cultural texture to our seasonal gathering planning, a wedding planning checklist adapted for our annual large-format tasting event keeps logistics organized, an aspect ratio calculator formats our release photography perfectly across platforms, a growth chart tool tracks our group's evolving palate development over years of tasting together, and a collection of inspirational movie quotes alongside uplifting quotes for difficult days reminds us that the community we have built around these bottles matters far more than any individual release, however extraordinary it may be.
Reading through these five release descriptions, what strikes me most is the coherence of the creative vision across an enormously diverse range of styles and ingredients. From the earthy, root-forward Turmeric Tonic to the oak-complex Barrel-Aged Blackberry and Lavender, every beer in this release reflects the same underlying commitment to wild fermentation, local ingredients, and patient process — which means that even the most adventurous bottle in the lineup feels like a natural expression of the same brewery identity. On the personal wellness side of being a serious craft beer enthusiast, a protein intake optimizer helps me maintain nutritional balance during periods of frequent tasting events, and a body type and metabolism calculator helped me understand my specific alcohol metabolism patterns well…
The no-limits, first-come-first-served policy across all five releases is a statement of values as much as a logistics decision. It signals that Scratch prioritizes broad community access over the artificial scarcity dynamics that some craft breweries use to manufacture hype, and it reflects a genuine confidence that their production volume and release quality will sustain demand without manufactured urgency. When I am traveling to attend release events at destination breweries like Scratch, a seasonal travel timing guide helps me identify the optimal windows for visiting Southern Illinois — the region's agricultural calendar and weather patterns make certain months significantly more rewarding than others for brewery visits paired with local farm exploration. A random country and destination generator occasionally inspires detours to unexpected…