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Current Mainstays
Supercool IPA combines chinook, azacca, cascade, and amarillo hops with a classic British ale yeast. Open fermentation and a truly unique dryhopping process lends the Supercool subtle complexities not found in modern IPAs. 6.5%
Engelberg Pilsener helped start the wave of well hopped pils in Portland. Using tettnanger hops and a classic yeast strain chosen specifically for this beer, the Engelberg hits the palate with firm, appetizing bitterness while remaining light and delicately balanced. 4.75% Four Play, exclusive to the brewery tasting room, is a wheat based saison that spends 18 months in casks with tart cherries and a variety of yeasts and bacteria. The blend yields a sour beer with a complex finish full of oak and minerality. 5% 
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Seasonal & one-off brews
Barleywine was brewed to showcase our house Yorkshire ale yeast and celebrate a truly classic style that isn't seen much these days despite a timeless quality. This beer features a 50/50 split of maris otter and optic pale malts, columbia, savinjski golding, and styrian golding hops, and a lengthy four hour direct fire boil. Naturally big but full of attractive flavors and quite drinkable, we hope that this barleywine rekindles interest in beer that tastes like beer. 9.5%
2020 Oregon Native is a special vintage - our first fermented and aged solely in foeders versus smaller barrels. The beer developed quickly, with lush and spicy oak character contrasting the vibrant and concise pinot noir. It drinks more lively and bright than previous releases, without sacrificing complexity. As always, the Oregon Native was made using exceptional fruit from Patton Valley Vineyards and 100% fermented with indigenous orchard yeast. 8% Money Avenue IPA is an experimental batch for us, venturing into the realm of high flavor/low bitterness IPAs. To give the beer some edge and an Upright distinction, we went extra dry, offsetting fruity and sweet smelling el dorado, mosaic, and strata hops and making a modern profile drinkable. The dryness is achieved without sacrificing body thanks to our three strain house kveik blend and open fermentation, while a ninety degree dryhop temperature accentuates complex, bright greenhouse smelling hop oils. 7% Seasonally Appropriate IPA is a modern take on old school winter beers, combining fashionable hops like citra and azacca with columbus and cascade over a deep amber base with smooth, satisfying malt flavors. This delicious IPA has big character from start to finish, and arrives just in time to be enjoyed during the heart of winter. 6.6% Willamette Pale is a single malt/single hop beer made with Bryan Keilty of Gorges Brewing. We partnered with Skagit Valley malt and used a variety called Pilot Dark, lending the beer a nice amber hue. The kettle was loaded with willamette hops, then we open fermented it with our house ale yeast. This one drinks like a classic from the U.K. with big but balanced flavors and plenty of nuance despite a modest abv of only 4.3%. Sherry Barrel Stock Ale is a collaborative blend made with Level Brewing. A seldomly seen style today, English stock ales were once popular blends of old, vintage casks with young, fresh beer, in which the aged beer lent drying oak and wild brettanomyces notes while the young beer provides a contrasting balance. Our version used sherry barrels for the vintage portion, and Level provided the young half, ultimately yielding a wonderfully complex historically modeled beer. 8.4% Helles is a traditional, supremely balanced German-style lager. This version was made entirely with Skagit Valley Malt from northern WA and German saphir hops. The soft but nuanced aroma leads to an ultra smooth beer mid palate and through the finish – this is easily the most drinkable lager we’ve produced in our 10+ years here at Upright. 4.5% Sweet ‘n Low Stout is a collaborative dry milk stout, made with longtime friend of the brewery Rick Nelson who visited us from Amsterdam. The oxymoronic style was based on his idea, and we fine-tuned it with our Yorkshire ale yeast and open fermentation. There’s just enough lactose to offset the dryness, making for a flavorful and nuanced session stout. 3.9% Fatali Four is back with a fresh new blend that began in a foeder and was matured long term in smaller oak casks. The light, wheat based session saison has been an Upright staple for years, always using fresh fatali peppers from Marvin Estates during the final few months of aging. 4.75% Kveik IPA uses a blend of meridian, hallertau blanc, and columbus hops with a split of pale and pilsner malts. Fermented with our house blend of kveik and metschnikowia reukaufii yeasts, this beer is an adventure on the palate, with complex floral/greenhouse character and a long, mineral rich finish. 6.7% Shaolin IPA is soft and smooth, with just a little mid-palate bitterness leading to a delicate finish. Hopped with crystal and columbus in the kettle, then dry hopped with huell melon and citra, the beer has attractive floral and fruity notes throughout. 6.6% Herfst Nacht Bruin is a seasonal brew full of historic character, inspired by Fantome and other expressive Belgian breweries. The Bruin is an 80/20 mix of young, autumn saison fermented with our house kveik blend, and a year old sherry barrel cacao infused saison. With complex notes ranging from spiced orange, warm malts, baking chocolate, and vintage sherry, this beer hits the classic Upright goal of being easy up front before showing a greater depth as it warms. 7% Porter is a classic, done London style with our English ale yeast, full of bready and caramelly malt flavors but smooth across the palate and never sweet. It’s a remarkably well balanced brew that can satisfy pint after pint. 5.2% Marzen is a traditional German lager, with solid malt flavors from the first whiff on through the finish. Our take is medium bodied with a pleasant mid-palate sweetness that turns extra soft on the tail end thanks to extensive lagering time. 5% West Coast Ghost takes our award winning WW Pro/Am beer from last summer and transforms it through a specific set of barrels – pinot, nocino, and fortified muscat, all of which add extra layers to the already complex brew that incorporated Nepali and sansho peppercorn and fresh Russian sage. A small addition of black lime just before kegging is the final touch. 4.3% Ives is our house wild ale, built on a base of raw wheat and barrel fermented in select casks. The most recent release is a draft only blend of four casks brewed between January and February of 2017, yielding earthy and fruity brettanomyces character with strong mid-palate acidity that softens on the finish. 6% Sorcery IPA is a one-off made with a tasty blend of citra, amarillo, centennial, and el dorado, creating deep hop character that blends seamlessly with our house yeast profile. The Sorcery has smooth bitterness and a classic, lasting finish. 6.75% Little Beers is a session wheat beer made in collaboration with Aslan Brewing of Bellingham. While extra low in alcohol, this beer has tons of character from a combination of two different lots of citra hops and our house blend of yeasts, straddling a line between historic farmhouse blondes and modern hoppy ales. 3.6% 2019 Oregon Native is the annual release of our pinot noir laden collaboration with Patton Valley Vineyards. Using estate grown fruit and only their orchard culture, we produce a barrel fermented beer without any typical yeasts. The Oregon Native shows characteristics of natural wine, with complex acidity driving classic pinot flavors. 8% Special Herbs is an annual botanical saison made with lemongrass, Sichuan peppercorns, hyssop, and two types of orange peel. This batch was aged in one nocino barrel, one gin barrel, and three very old wine barrels, with each one adding distinct elements to the profile, ultimately producing a bright, tonic-like beer. 5.7% Primitivo Red is a classic, well balanced ale. Deep in color and smooth on the palate, the Primitivo uses a blend of British malts and cascade and columbus hops in the kettle for a full, rounded flavor that emphasizes softness on the finish for high drinkability. A touch of huell melon dryhops lends the beer a gentle floral and fruity note that matches perfectly with our house ale yeast. 5.7% Foeder Five brings back our longtime hoppy saison recipe but creates something new after a pass through one of our foeders. Easy drinking but complex at the same time, the Foeder Five drinks with an Orval-esque character, combining a brettanomyces rich profile with deep hopping and rustic metallic notes. A long, dry finish caps the experience. This is a beer for old school enthusiasts who love Orval and other quirky gems from breweries like De Ranke and Brasserie à Vapeur. 5.75% |