Scratch Brewing Company Sahti

Sahti

 

Scratch Brewing Company in Ava, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

  Traditional Beer - Sahti Regular
Score
7.18
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 10
Northern European-inspired black ale mashed in an oak puncheon through a bed of juniper branches, brewed with additional branches over a wood fire in our copper kettle.
 

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7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Draft: Poured a dark brown with khaki to light brown head. Aroma is woodsy, earthy, light smoke. Taste is light fruity, earthy, woodsy, drys in the finish.

Tried from Draft at Tørst on 16 May 2025 at 10:51


8

Tried from Draft on 07 Mar 2025 at 16:15


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Exploding bottle at share: pours brown with a beige head. Aroma is lightly smokey, cedar, berry. Taste is malty, a sour note, light smoke. Unfortunately, our bottle was over carbonated and the mouthfeel was reflected as such.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2019 at 16:32


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 7

Bottle at share, exploded on wall. Pours dark brown. Raspberry, cherry, smoke, biscuit, citrus, earthy. Wildly overcabonated. Odd.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2019 at 01:48


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle many thanks to wchesser for this really appreciate. Saw it made it to City Hops in NYC I would of flipped my lid randomly getting this as a regular of there. Anyways reddish pour huge foaming head. Does have a kinda traditional look other than sudsyness. Nose is juniper light bread. Tastes juniper, red fruit, blackberries, barrel, earth hint of wheat bread. Tasty brew for sure, it’s been a few years since my last authentic sahti but the overall profile seems close although lacking the heavy banana bread.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Feb 2019 at 04:15


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Refrigerated 75 cl brown bottle from shrubber85 pouredibto a glass. Dark brown with big beige head. Aroma is herbal, medium/light body, well carbonated, and some lacing. Taste is wood, chocolate, and some juniper. Easy drinking, but not real flavorful.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Feb 2019 at 23:01


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle: (courtesy of my brother, Shrubber85 who undertook a day long journey just to obtain this.) Pours dark, reddish-brown with a smooth tan head. Toffee, green banana, juniper aroma. Taste is slightly sweet old banana, juniper, dark, semi-roasty malts. Nicely bodied for being so light....very good....I wish there were more of this style available to be able to speak intelligently as to it's level to style.....I'll just say, I really like it.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Jan 2019 at 22:13


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle, from City Hops. Pours reddish dark brown with very large spongy beige head, spicy caramel aroma, fizzy, lightly bitter caramel taste with pine like juniper flavor, smooth thin body, oily mouthfeel, long finish with juniper aftertaste. Very smooth to drink, feels like you've been chewing juniper pods.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Oct 2018 at 03:40


8.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Bottle (only a short 3.5 hour drive to get sahti #10). Banana, orange, juniper, and buttery toffee malt aroma. Very dark brown with large tan head. Moderately sweet banana, buttery toffee malt, and moderately bitter juniper flavor. Nice body and great balance. Not nearly as sweet as the Finnish Sahtis I've had but nice phenol presence. Very pleasant.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Feb 2018 at 02:04


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draft at Salud. Dark Clear maroon color tan head. Herbal aroma on a dark roast background. Taste of burnt branches. Best sahti of the day so far

Tried from Draft on 16 Jan 2018 at 17:03