For nearly two years, Fetish Brewing, a small Lancaster-based startup, has brewed for a very select group of supporters.

Following the community supported agriculture model, the three partners and friends behind Fetish, have provided beer monthly to 60 beer loving shareholders.

By word of month, they get contacted every week by people asking where they can find Fetish’s unique, handcrafted brews.

“There hasn’t been a real opportunity to buy it,” said Fetish partner Brandon Stetser.

That just changed.

The Fridge, on North Mulberry Street, recently began selling Spelt Fetish, a Belgian-style farmhouse saison. On Friday, the first bottles of spelt arrived at Crush, the upstairs bar at Carr’s restaurant.

Stetser, Aaron Risser and Mike Simpson have produced Fetish ales at a small building tucked away on Lancaster city’s three-block long Ice Avenue for about a year.

They brew and bottle seven varieties of beer around their day jobs. Stetser is a metals trader, while Risser is graphic artist and Simpson works at Lancaster Country Day School.

“We put the handcraft in handcrafted,” Stetser said of the micro operation, declining to say how much beer they produce.

The partners hope to distribute to more retail outlets and have had interest from a few. Stetser said there are no definite plans for where, how many or what varieties of beer they will offer.

In addition to the spelt, they have made a ghost pepper ale and seasonal beers, including Bumble Fetish, a honey wheat ale in spring, kolsch in summer, pumpkin in fall and a peat-smoked ale in winter.

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Wherever possible, they use locally sourced ingredients, such as raw honey from Lancaster County and pumpkins grown here.

“The goal is to stay as Lancaster-centric as possible and find new and interesting ways to brew new and interesting beers,” Stetser said.

First in line for their product will continue to be their CSA shareholders who have supported them, he said.

With that support, they have been able to bring their beer to market while remaining almost entirely debt free. Stetser also declined to state the amount they have invested in the operation.

The CSA shareholders have allowed them to focus on the beer, rather than profit. And, it has allowed them to experiment.

While the spelt appeals to a wide-variety of beer drinkers, Fetish’s niche is more exotic or unique.

“We’d like to see our beers get more interesting, more layered, more complicated and to do that as much as possible with ingredients we buy in Lancaster County,” he said.

The craft beer market has been booming in recent years. There are more than a dozen brewers now in Lancaster County.

But it may not always be that way. Stetser said the Fetish partners want to grow, but slowly and carefully.

“All markets are cyclical,” he said. “We hope to still be here after whatever contraction the market experiences.”