Scratch Brewing Company

Ava, IL

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All beers · Scratch Brewing Company

  • Scratch Spring Tonic

    Spiced Beer · 4.5% ABV

    This is a better gruit!Brewed with no hops just flowers. Dry, mildly tart.
  • Scratch Kvass

    Sour Ale · 4.1% ABV

    Sour ale brewed with toasted rye bread & caraway seeds.
  • Scratch Strawberry Rhubarb

    Gruit · 5.5% ABV

    This bottle-conditioned sour beer was brewed over a direct fire in our copper kettle with Vienna and Munich malt from our friends at Sugar Creek in Indiana...
  • Scratch Barrel Aged Sahti with Brett

    Sahti · 6.0% ABV

    A deep red sahti that was refermented with wild brettanomyces yeast in a chambourcin wine barrel. flavors of dark fruit are complemented by tart cherry, wood.
  • Scratch Blackberry & Lavender

    Sour Ale · 5.5% ABV

    Bottle Conditioned Sour Ale Brewed Without Hops. Battered and Flavored with Southern Illionois-Grown Blackberries and Lavender, and Fermented with Our Wild House Mixed Culture.
  • Scratch Blonde Gruit

    Gruit · 4.5% ABV

    A gruit made with plants other than hops, including dandelion, dock, and ginger. spicy, ginger aroma gives way to a green, tea-like tonic with low bitterness.
  • Scratch Chanterelle

    Biere de Garde · 6.5% ABV

    Biere De Garde brewed with Chanterelle Mushrooms.
  • Scratch Herbal Porter

    Porter · 5.7% ABV

    English style porter brewed with rye and herbs from our garden, including lavender and wild bee balm. A unique beer with a savory, oregano-like finish.
  • Scratch Nettle Ginger Gruit

    Spiced Beer · 5.4% ABV

    A straw yellow colored ale brewed without hops. the sweetness in this beer is balanced by the addition of ginger and nettle, which give a green and slightly peppery quality to the finish
  • Scratch Single Tree Hickory

    Sour Ale · 6.6% ABV

    Light-colored sour ale brewed with all parts of the hickory tree. Very tart with a smoky, incense - like aroma and a hint of marshmellows.
  • Scratch Stein Gruit Stout

    Gruit · 6.0% ABV

    Stout brewed entirely with hot granite rocks as the heat source. No hops were used to bitter this beer, only dandelion greens in the boil. Lightly tart and roasty, an easy drinking stout.
  • Scratch Barrel Aged Chanterelle

    Biere de Garde · 9.3% ABV

    high gravity beer made with foraged chanterelle mushrooms and toasted maple bark then fermented with our wild house mixed culture and aged in a red wine barrel...
  • Scratch Barrel Aged Chantrelle Tripel

    Biere de Garde · 9.3% ABV

  • Scratch Black Trumpet Biere de Mars

    Biere de Garde · 6.9% ABV

    It’s a clean-drinking, amber and malty French farmhouse-style beer that finishes earthy and chocolatey.
  • Scratch Cherry Bark Biere de Garde

    Biere de Garde · 6.6% ABV

    French farmhouse ale brewed with foraged wild cherry bark.
  • Scratch BA Chanterelle Tripel

    Biere de Garde · 6.2% ABV

    Brewed w/ 5 gallons of locally harvested chanterelle mushrooms. Earthy apricot aroma complements a spicy medium-bodied beer w/ a dry finish.
  • Scratch Barrel-Aged Apple

    Sour Ale · 5.7% ABV

    Bottle-conditioned sour ale brewed w/o hops. Made with grain from Sugar Creek Malt and re-fermented with pressed juice from Southern Illinois apples.
  • Scratch Barrel Aged Aronia Rye Wine

    Barleywine · 9.2% ABV

    Prounced wine and oak aroma with a spicy dry finish from the large percentage of rye and the wild yeast.
  • Scratch Chambourcin

    Porter · 5.0% ABV

    A malty, chocolatey porter aged in fresh Alto Vineyards chambourcin barrels. Rich coffee and chocolate base beer mixes with a distinctive chambourcin wine flavor.
  • Scratch Dandelion Ginger Tonic

    Gruit · 4.4% ABV

    Bottle-conditioned sour beer brewed without hops. Bittered and flavored with southern Illnois-grown dandelion, ginger, carrot tops, and clover, and fermented with our wild house mixed culture.
  • Scratch Dark Dark Bark

    Spiced Beer · 5.1% ABV

    Black ale made with rye and mashed in an oak puncheon through a bed of cedar branches and brewed with eastern red cedar, oak bark, hickory bark, wild oregano, s
  • Scratch Götlandsdricka

    Spiced Beer · 5.7% ABV

    A deep reddish brown ale made from birch sap, cedar tips, and smoked malt. a prominent fruity aroma from the cedar tips complements the moderate smokiness of the malt...
  • Scratch Mumm

    Traditional Ale · 5.3% ABV

    Gruit brewed with lavender, basil, pineapple sage, and elderflower. Made with mapple sap (no water).
  • Scratch Pepita

    English Mild · 4.6% ABV

    Toasty, easy drinking pub ale brewed with grains from our friends at suga creek malt, nugget hops from cl hops, and pumpkin seeds roasted in a hearth oven from lightfoot farms in murphysboro, IL an...
  • Scratch Spicebush Tripel

    Tripel · 8.3% ABV

    Strong, blonde belgian abbey ale brewed with spicebush berries for a bubble gum and peach aroma and a spicy, peppery finish.
  • Scratch Tumeric Sour

    Sour Ale · 4.4% ABV

    Sour ale brewed w/o hops & flavored w/ turmeric & lemongrass & fermented w/ Scratch’s wild house mixed culture
  • Scratch 9 Hour Barleywine

    Barleywine · 10.3% ABV

    Rich, malty, english-style barleywine brewed over a wood fire for 9 hours and aged in a george dickel whiskey barrel. caramel, plum, orange, and a light vanillin flavor from the barrel.
  • Scratch Acer Saccharum

    Lager · 9.0% ABV

    Named after the Latin for “Sugar Maple,” this beer is brewed entirely with maple sap in place of water, from trees harvested in southern Illinois...
  • Scratch Apricot Honey Braggot

    Braggot · 8.3% ABV

    Dark amber, half honey-half malt beer brewed with apricots. This is the only keg we didn’t age in barrels so you can taste the braggot true to style.
  • Scratch Barrel-Aged Cedar Oak

    Saison · 6.6% ABV

    Smooth, oaky, and fruity with subtle hints of juniper on the back end.
  • Scratch Barrel-Aged Mumm

    Sour Ale · 4.2% ABV

    Sour dark ale brewed without hops...
  • Scratch Biere de Garde

    Biere de Garde · 6.8% ABV

    A traditional Belgian Bière de Garde brewed for five hours. Boiled on the forest floor over a wood fire in a cast-iron kettle around which a hand-packed mud and brick oven was fashioned.
  • Scratch Blackberry Weiss

    Berliner Weisse · 3.8% ABV

    Sour wheat beer + local Blackberries.
  • Scratch Chicory Burdock Root Porter

    Porter · 5.4% ABV

    Porter brewed with roasted burdock and chicory roots which lend a dry roastiness to this complex beer.
  • Scratch Dandelion Ginger Gruit

    Spiced Beer · 4.7% ABV

    Gruit is a beer brewed without hops. bittered entirely with wild ginger and brewed with lemon peel and dandelion. Light with a spicy finish. Perfect for warm weather.
  • Scratch Dandelion Tonic Gruit

    Scottish Ale · 4.7% ABV

  • Scratch Fig Leaf Porter

    Porter · 5.8% ABV

    Robust Porter w/ fig leaves
  • Scratch Foeder Beer

    Farmhouse Ale · 7.5% ABV

    This farmhouse ale went through primary fermentation in stainless steel and was left to rest for a year in Missouri white oak foeders from our friends at Foeder Crafters...
  • Scratch Ginger File

    Sour Ale · 5.1% ABV

    Sour ale fermented with our wild house culture and brewed without hops. bittered and flavored with river to river farm’s ginger and dried sassafras leaves (used for file spice) from the forest...
  • Scratch Gooseberry Saison

    Saison · 6.4% ABV

    belgian farmhouse ale brewed with locally harvested gooseberries. smooth, dry lightly tart with flavors of lemon and lime.
  • Scratch Green Walnut

    Traditional Ale · 5.1% ABV

    Starting with an english brown ale base beer, we blended nocino, an Italian style liquour made w/ green walnuts and aged for two years. the result is a bready.
  • Scratch Gruit Root Stout

    Stout · 5.3% ABV

    Stout brewed with no hops. the malt sweetness is balanced by roasted roots (dock, dandelion, chicory, coffee).
  • Scratch Hen of the Woods

    Saison · 5.4% ABV

    Blonde farmhouse ale brewed with maitake (also known as hen of the woods) mushrooms, oak leaves, organic central illinois-grown wheat, and a touch of smoked malt...
  • Scratch Meadow Saison

    Saison · 5.6% ABV

    farmhouse ale brewed with a variety of meadow wildflowers and plants. aromas of mint, clove, ripe banana, orange, and flowers accompany a similar flavor with a refreshing, crisp finish.
  • Scratch Rauchbier

    Smoked Beer · 5.4% ABV

    A copper colored german beer made with smoked malt. malt that is dried over a wood fire. this gives the beer a subtle smokey character to balance the malty character.
  • Scratch Spicebush Rye Abbey

    Belgian Ale · 5.8% ABV

    A dark brown ale brewed with belgian abbey yeast and shiso leaves (an invasive species used in Japanese cuisine). the shiso character can be described as savory, minty, licorice, etc...
  • Scratch Turmeric and Oak Leaf Gruit

    Traditional Ale · 4.9% ABV

    A beer that derives some of its taste and aroma from the particular spices, herbs or vegetables.
  • Scratch 49

    Farmhouse Ale · 5.2% ABV

    Farmhouse beer brewed with 49 different leaves, roots, bark, fruit, and funghi. Effervescent and dry with notes of oregano, peppercorn, and earthy spice.
  • Scratch Aronia Berry Old Ale

    Old Ale

    Strong ale brewed with local, tart aronia berries
  • Scratch Arugula Rye

    Rye Ale · 6.0% ABV

    Rye porter bittered with organic arugula from all seasons farm in Cobden, Illinois, and blended in the fermenter with roasted arugula root, giving the beer a roasted coffee-like aroma.
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