Gruits
The style Gruit generally meaning void of any hops. And back a few hundred years and earlier, when hops was simply one of hundreds of different ingredients, the Gruit style was pretty much the only style, with various cultures making beer and giving it flavor using just about anything. This could be Psychotropic styles using wormwood, yarrow or other similar herbs, other Gruit brews made from roots, bark, branches, flowers, leaves, berries, you name it, if it had interesting flavors or properties, throw it in. Our initial Gruits are just scratching the surface of the possibilities, and will be an ongoing experiment to reinvent some of these lost but amazing brews. The first was the Sasquatch, blending 34 different herbs and spices in various small quantities to see what would happen, a real zinger for the first one on tap. The next was the Merlin, a brew focusing on just the herbs that are considered Psychotropic. The most recent being the Gingerbiru Ginger beer, focusing on the ginger and lemon to produce a more refreshing version of the Gruit style.

Merlin Psychotropic

• SRM: 9
• ​ABV: 6.4%

The Merlin is what can be called a psychotropic gruit beer. This being as many of the ingredients give the beer a slightly different inebriating effect than a normal beer. This is from a blend of wormwood, tansy, sage, mandrake root, mugwort, and yarrow, giving it slightly bitter or sour initial taste but loaded with complex tastes in the finish.

Gingebiru Ginger Beer

• SRM: 3.5
• ​ABV: 5.1%

​The generous amounts of ginger, lemon, and flaked rice make an amazingly refreshing brew, perfect for cooling down with on hot summer days.

Sasquatch

• ​SRM: 9
• ABV: 6.0%

With no hops but instead uses a cornucopia of 34 herbs and spices, all in small amounts and timed in the boil as appropriate. A pleasant aroma that keeps your taste buds racing to keep up with the myriad of flavors and sensations. 

Sasquatch Gruit

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