Wild Blueberry
Scratch Brewing Company
- From:
- Scratch Brewing Company
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 7.9%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.25 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 28, 2019
- Added:
- Dec 20, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Collaboration with White Rooster Farmhouse Brewery
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.
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.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by joe1510 from Illinois
4.25/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
330ml
$9.99
Open Bottle - Tinley Park, IL
WIld Blueberry is a beauty. It initially takes on that deep purple/blood red hue but when even slightly back lit tends more toward garnet. It's fairly dark and it's muddled enough to keep from seeing through the body. The foam is surprising on a beer of the style showing exceptional staying power. A finger-plus on the pour, the purple tinged finely bubbled foam eventually crackles down to a silky smooth cap. That cap is as low as it goes.Wispy drink lines are left after each sip.
The nose sports all kinds of wild funky depth. Bacteria riddled oak gets it moving, bringing along that cobweb heavy old attic funkiness. A welcomed lactic acidity runs the middle along with faint blueberry, skins and stems and all. Each swirl of the glass brings about more pronounced berry fruitiness. Sweet floral wildflowers and rain soaked rock minerality add a ton of depth. There's a good play between sweet and sour with the sour winning out. It's all around musty and rustic.
The nose led the way and the flavor follows in stride. Splintery old dry oak starts it off. The lactic acidity brings on a touch of yogurt and the added blueberry brings a touch of sweet berry flavor. It's musty from front to back with that softly sweet wildflower character. The vinous quality is more pronounced in the flavor and fits the whole exceptionally well. Rain soaked rock and tannic stems, skins and barrel wrap this one up. Very good.
The feel, as with all Scratch, is dialed in just right. It's moderate in body with a fairly spritzy carbonation. There's a bit of stick upfront but that gets washed away by both the bubbles and tannic, dry finish. For the depth and complexity and even alcohol for that matter, this one goes down exceptionally quick. It should be a sipper to appreciate all the complexities but it's hard to set this one down.
Scratch hit another homerun, as did White Rooster with this collaboration. Their house culture is magic. It's funky and lactic without being over the top barnyard or battery acid. It's even handed and layered with a great play between sweet & sour while the barrel aging is handled to perfection.
Dec 30, 2018$9.99
Open Bottle - Tinley Park, IL
WIld Blueberry is a beauty. It initially takes on that deep purple/blood red hue but when even slightly back lit tends more toward garnet. It's fairly dark and it's muddled enough to keep from seeing through the body. The foam is surprising on a beer of the style showing exceptional staying power. A finger-plus on the pour, the purple tinged finely bubbled foam eventually crackles down to a silky smooth cap. That cap is as low as it goes.Wispy drink lines are left after each sip.
The nose sports all kinds of wild funky depth. Bacteria riddled oak gets it moving, bringing along that cobweb heavy old attic funkiness. A welcomed lactic acidity runs the middle along with faint blueberry, skins and stems and all. Each swirl of the glass brings about more pronounced berry fruitiness. Sweet floral wildflowers and rain soaked rock minerality add a ton of depth. There's a good play between sweet and sour with the sour winning out. It's all around musty and rustic.
The nose led the way and the flavor follows in stride. Splintery old dry oak starts it off. The lactic acidity brings on a touch of yogurt and the added blueberry brings a touch of sweet berry flavor. It's musty from front to back with that softly sweet wildflower character. The vinous quality is more pronounced in the flavor and fits the whole exceptionally well. Rain soaked rock and tannic stems, skins and barrel wrap this one up. Very good.
The feel, as with all Scratch, is dialed in just right. It's moderate in body with a fairly spritzy carbonation. There's a bit of stick upfront but that gets washed away by both the bubbles and tannic, dry finish. For the depth and complexity and even alcohol for that matter, this one goes down exceptionally quick. It should be a sipper to appreciate all the complexities but it's hard to set this one down.
Scratch hit another homerun, as did White Rooster with this collaboration. Their house culture is magic. It's funky and lactic without being over the top barnyard or battery acid. It's even handed and layered with a great play between sweet & sour while the barrel aging is handled to perfection.
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