Foeder-Aged Bark
Scratch Brewing Company
- From:
- Scratch Brewing Company
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 6.9%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.1 | pDev: 4.15%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 15, 2023
- Added:
- Mar 03, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Amber ale brewed with wild cherry, hickory, and oak bark, then aged in oak foeders from our friends at Foeder Crafters in Missouri. Malty backbone with flavors of stone fruit, incense, and baking spice and a smooth, oaky finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.15/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.15/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Clear amber brown body with a mushroom colored head, mild sporadic lacing. Smell leads with the sour cherry and lesser so lemon, accompanied by big earth woodsy tones, hickory in particular invokes some of the darker baking spices. Taste is what the description promises: the hickory really shines with earthy wild yeast, bright oak, cherry, red grape, licorice and faint black pepper. This truly is a wild ale! Feel is light though, wood notes swirl around the delicate body, muted sourness is there but yeast more so on the backend. Again scratch brews something that I can truly say is unique
Mar 15, 2023
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
3.81/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Bringing a sense of woodworking to the world of brewing, Scratch brings hickory and cherry woods to the brewery to create a barrel aged, spontaneously tart and curiously spicy red ale that's loosely inspired by the darker ales of northern Belgium.
Scratch's Foeder-Aged Bark pour with a russet red hue and laced with a rich and yeasty haze. As a dainty froth settles after a lively pour, the spicy scents of peppery woods, slight earhten funk, mossy and weathered woods play a deep and pungent perfume on the nose. Scant sweetness of steely caramel, toast and nuttiness grace the tongue briefly before the dryness sets in.
Complex with red apple, cherry, leathery grapefruit and limes, red berries and grapes all ebb and flow throughout the middle palate while a more peppery balance emerges. Baking spices of cinnamon, peppercorn, white peppery, ginger and cumin tease the finish with a woodsy finish of sun bleached oak broadly on the late palate.
Light, tart and awash with light cola maltiness, the beer is a fascinating blend of both rusticity and refinement and is most likely a history lesson with every sip, seemingly showing how beer may have been made some five hundred years ago.
Nov 01, 2022Scratch's Foeder-Aged Bark pour with a russet red hue and laced with a rich and yeasty haze. As a dainty froth settles after a lively pour, the spicy scents of peppery woods, slight earhten funk, mossy and weathered woods play a deep and pungent perfume on the nose. Scant sweetness of steely caramel, toast and nuttiness grace the tongue briefly before the dryness sets in.
Complex with red apple, cherry, leathery grapefruit and limes, red berries and grapes all ebb and flow throughout the middle palate while a more peppery balance emerges. Baking spices of cinnamon, peppercorn, white peppery, ginger and cumin tease the finish with a woodsy finish of sun bleached oak broadly on the late palate.
Light, tart and awash with light cola maltiness, the beer is a fascinating blend of both rusticity and refinement and is most likely a history lesson with every sip, seemingly showing how beer may have been made some five hundred years ago.
Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
4.25/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Spring 2022 vintage; drank 5/16/22 @ the Yarchives.
Cloudy orange/brown appearance.
An even pour yielded a small tan head; no lace.
Black licorice, lemon, chicory & faint lime notes in the nose.
Medium mouthfeel.
Tart lemon, tree bark (duh), chicory and black licorice flavors.
Tart, savory and somehow quite tasty!
May 17, 2022Cloudy orange/brown appearance.
An even pour yielded a small tan head; no lace.
Black licorice, lemon, chicory & faint lime notes in the nose.
Medium mouthfeel.
Tart lemon, tree bark (duh), chicory and black licorice flavors.
Tart, savory and somehow quite tasty!
Reviewed by emerge077 from Illinois
4.17/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.17/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Deep orange amber tone with bright clarity and ample foam, some spotty lacing around the edges.
Aroma has a lightly fruity ale yeast ester, and a complex array of wood-derived notes. Cedar, sandalwood, oak, foresty hickory.
Taste has a similar complexity and woody hickory, cherry bark, oak and even a eucalyptus note. There’s a very mild twang from the resident foeder microflora, but it’s very low key. That crisp twang offsets the largely malty base, which is medium bodied with a softer level of carbonation. Definitely a woody showcase of their foeder and the various foraged tree barks.
Since I love their other bark beers, especially Single Tree Hickory and Bark, this was a no-brainer to try. Really enjoyed it.
Apr 02, 2022Aroma has a lightly fruity ale yeast ester, and a complex array of wood-derived notes. Cedar, sandalwood, oak, foresty hickory.
Taste has a similar complexity and woody hickory, cherry bark, oak and even a eucalyptus note. There’s a very mild twang from the resident foeder microflora, but it’s very low key. That crisp twang offsets the largely malty base, which is medium bodied with a softer level of carbonation. Definitely a woody showcase of their foeder and the various foraged tree barks.
Since I love their other bark beers, especially Single Tree Hickory and Bark, this was a no-brainer to try. Really enjoyed it.
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