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Year-round brews
Saison Vert is a wheat based brew using sun dried black limes that contribute bright citrus flavors and a complex depth when combined with our open fermentation method and saison strains. The Vert rides the fine line of being easy and enjoyable but full of nuance. 4.75%
- also available in bottle conditioned form Supercool IPA employs open fermentation with our house blend of saison yeasts at cool temperatures, allowing the profile to only hint at its Belgian-esque roots. Draft Supercool drinks like a dry American IPA, with an attractive and balanced hop character spanning fresh mandarin, apricot, and cedar, while the unique yeasts lend pleasant floral notes. 6.5% - also available in bottle conditioned form Engelberg Pilsener is an unfiltered lager with a notably deep hop profile alongside clean malt flavor. A classic yeast strain chosen specifically for this beer helps the Engelberg hit the palate with firm, appetizing bitterness while remaining light and delicately balanced. 4.75% Pathways Saison is a mixed fermentation beer blended from a lot of barrels varying in vintage from anywhere between three months to over one year. Multiple yeast and bacteria strains develop complex aromatics within a saison base, combining classic flavors with an attractive hop profile of herbal, grass, and soft lemon notes. 8% - also available in bottle conditioned form 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
Upright Lite is brewed today as it was in 2013, with a rigorous brewing process that reinvented the category of light beer with its consistently clean flavor and unpretentious attitude. Its top shelf taste is low in calories and carbohydrates, appealing to adult beer drinkers interested in a superior light beer that promotes an active, social lifestyle. Faithfully brewed and never heat pasteurized, Upright Lite gives you the ultimate in cold refreshment, every time. 4.6%
Flora is based on our annual summer seasonal, the Flora Rustica. This simply named variant starts the same - as a classic saison made with Mecca Grade malt, fresh yarrow, and calendula flowers, but then ages for a year in two old pinot barrels and two carbonic chardonnay barrels. A truly mixed fermentation beer with several strains of yeasts and bacteria, the Flora manages elegance despite the combination of so many elements, speaking to an overall profile that we love here at Upright. 5.75% Demon's Lullaby is a red saison, perfect for folks who enjoy depth of flavor but in a dry beer. The grist is primarily composed of Mecca Grade malts with a touch of darker varieties for extra edge and color, and the earthy hops contrast well against the spicy fermentation based notes. 6.4% Safe as Milk is a unique IPA made with comet, pekko, and two experimental hop varieties. The beer was openly fermented like our Supercool IPA, but with the CTBB yeast strain that originated at Orval, lending an appetizing spiciness to the profile over a forest-like hop character of pine, earth, and lemon. 6.2% Petite Pale was brewed for the annual Cheers to Belgian Beers Festival in collaboration with Migration Brewing. The yeast is famous as the primary strain at Orval. Using their Petite beer as inspiration, we formulated a recipe using 100% Mecca Grade malt from central Oregon and a heavy hop load evenly split between saaz, hallertau blanc, and whole leaf mandarina. The beer has a wonderful balance and fullness despite the low alcohol content, with notes of sage, juniper, and other arid climate herbs contrasted against light lemon and orange flavors. 4% Offen Kolsch takes a historic twist on the classic German style, being fermented with an authentic yeast strain from Cologne in one of our open fermenters. The short, wide tank encourages the development of subtle pear and apple notes from the yeast, while the rest shows perfect balance with a faint sweetness up front giving way to a clean, dry, and crisp finish. 5% El Filo is an open fermented amber saison brewed with Honduran coffee roasted by our friends at Junior's in NE Portland. The beer combines a complex ester profile with a range of flavors from the coffee, most notably a fresh hazelnut and floral character. The beer drinks easy up front and finishes with a pleasant dryness, never allowing the coffee to overpower the profile. 5.3% Pale Ale follows our recent Pub Ale in celebrating old school styles, using a simple recipe combining a grist of two-row, vienna, and flaked barley with strata, columbus, and whole leaf denali hops. Fermented with an excellent English ale yeast, this pale hits all the right notes and is just right for spring. 5.5% Pacific Herbs is a collaboration with Chris Hainge of Kyoto Brewing, made for the Fuji to Hood festival. We started with the base recipe for Special Herbs and substituted in several ingredients - rice, sansho pepper, mikan peel, and shiso leaf. The beer was open fermented with our house saison yeasts and drinks only slightly tart but full of flavor, much like a classic saison. Look for two special barrel aged versions down the road - in nocino and fortified muscat casks! 4.5% Pub Ale is a departure from our typically quirky or adventurous one-offs, and simply named because it's a simple beer. Bringing together the flavors of a classic English brown with crystal, willamette, and a new, experimental hop, the Pub Ale hits all the right notes a seasoned beer enthusiast will enjoy - lightly malty, appetizing bitterness, and supreme sessionability thanks to a dry finish. 5.75% Barrel Aged Juzek 13º is a small two cask blend of the Czech style tmavé pivo we made for Bailey's Taproom. Matured in rye whiskey barrels, the smooth, rich lager dried out a bit and picked up great rye character evident in the nose, along with some oak spice and light char while maintaining a smooth profile. 6% Upbeat Wheat is a one-off saison made to celebrate early spring using a base of Northwest pilsner malt and raw wheat. The beer combines strata and simcoe hops with a fermentation carried out solely by a single brettanomyces strain, yielding a profile where classic saison meets modern yet modest hopping. 5% Schade Imperial IPA, our hoppiest brew of the year, is back with a revised recipe. The 2018 version, formulated with chef Ben Schade of Old Salt Marketplace, uses chinook, azacca, mosiac, huell melon, citra, and simcoe hops. This layered blend leans fruity like many modern IPAs but retains some old school character, most notably a firm bitterness that's absent in several supposedly hoppy beers these days. The Schade finishes extra dry and drinks remarkably easy despite a solid strength. 8.9% Juzek 13º is done in the style of Czech tmavé pivo, a dark lager. Unlike German dunkel, these beers are brewed within a broad profile and vary from brewery to brewery, with everything from color, sweetness, and roast level distinguishing one example from the next. Our take highlights the overall smoothness and strong, complex malt flavors found in most tmavé pivo. The finish remains soft but drier than a typical Czech version, making for a highly drinkable beer. Look for the Juzek 13º at Bailey's Taproom, where it will be the Hausbier for most of February and March. 5.5% Oyster Stout is back for 2018. While the recipe remains largely unchanged, this batch is showing more character than ever with a hint of the shellfish in the aroma and strong brine quality on the palate by way of 8 dozen Hama Hama oysters and 8 gallons of oyster "juice" incorporated into the brew. 6.2% Saison Masekela is a one-off three cask blend combining the following: Saison Vert from an auxerrois (white wine) barrel Beesment (raw honey saison) from a vermouth barrel Wayfaring Saison (100% brettanomyces) from a 2009 vintage barrel The blend is a fun showing of all three elements, with bright citric flavors, complex fruit and wild yeast notes, and a balanced oak profile, named in honor of the great South African musician. 5.75% Eye of Jupiter is a special blend combining a strong, openly fermented bière de garde with a batch of Six that spent several months in Oregon Native casks on top of second use pinot noir grapes. The beer threads a spicy oak and rye character with bright fruit and acids, while the bière de garde portion smooths it all out for an elegant profile. 7% Spellbinder Pils is back for the first time since 2012. This lager is hugely differentiated from the Engelberg, most notably by the heavy hand of saaz hops driving the aroma. The profile also shows more balance, with a bit of body as opposed to the light, bracingly dry Engelberg, but still showing plenty of hop bitterness, a hallmark of the style. 4.9% Three Point Pils is a true session beer made in a traditional Czech style. The beer comes across like a mini-pils, but the profile is quite different than our German-styled Engelberg. The Three Point Pils uses spicy European hops and a wonderful yeast strain from Prague to yield a flavorful beer that's light enough to enjoy throughout an entire game. 3% |