Sumac Sour

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

Sour / Wild Beer Regular

Score

7.03

ABV: 5.4%

IBU: -

Ticks: 18

This bottle-conditioned sour ale was brewed without hops and bittered and flavored with staghorn sumac, yellow sweet clover, and rested on toasted oak heartwood, all harvested from our property. It was fermented with our wild mixed house culture and cellared for several months before the release. This beer is bright red and tastes like tart cherry pie from the berries with vanillin and cinnamon flavors from the clover and oak.

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saxo (29721) reviewed Sumac Sour from Scratch Brewing Company 6 years ago

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

Sample @ MBCC 2019, blue session. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are nice sour malt, berries, lactose acid and hops. Nice sour finish.

Tried on 10 May 2019 at 17:42

Rasmus40 (37007) reviewed Sumac Sour from Scratch Brewing Company 6 years ago

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

MBCC. Light hazy amber with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, cinnamon and apple pie. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate acidic. Dry and moderate acidic. Dry and moderate acidic finish. 100519

Tried on 10 May 2019 at 17:27

Martin Lindström (24380) ticked Sumac Sour from Scratch Brewing Company 6 years ago

Tried on 10 May 2019 at 17:00

7.6

djd07 (28882) reviewed Sumac Sour from Scratch Brewing Company 8 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Pours a cloudy orange with small white head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is floral, earth, spice, oak, cherry skin. Thin body, berry cherry skin, spice, mineral, light tartness, very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Jul 2017 at 08:43

7.5

shrubber (15804) reviewed Sumac Sour from Scratch Brewing Company 8 years ago

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Vinegar, biscuit malt, and hay aroma. Amber with minimal head. Mildly sweet biscuit malt, moderately sour citric acid, and mildly bitter grass/fresh hay flavor. Good body. Pleasant - straight forward.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Apr 2017 at 20:14

8.3

Travlr (30173) reviewed Sumac Sour from Scratch Brewing Company 8 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Hazy to cloudy golden color. Nice floral aroma. Taste has softly sour summer fruit. Very tasty.

Tried on 26 Feb 2017 at 18:52

maniac (11822) ticked Sumac Sour from Scratch Brewing Company 8 years ago

Tried from Bottle on 25 Feb 2017 at 12:25

7.3

jtclockwork (20061) reviewed Sumac Sour from Scratch Brewing Company 9 years ago

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

Bottle - pours reddish gold white head - nose and taste of berries, oak, Asian pear, honey and sour lemon - medium body

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2017 at 19:26