Scratch Brewing Company
Ava, IL
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All beers · Scratch Brewing Company
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Scratch Spring Tonic
Spiced Beer · 4.5% ABV
This is a better gruit!Brewed with no hops just flowers. Dry, mildly tart. -
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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. -
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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
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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. -
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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. -
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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
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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. -
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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. - View all beers