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Year-round
Supercool IPA combines chinook, crystal, cascade, and azacca hops with a classic British ale yeast for a broad and balanced profile, with delicately complex slate notes underscoring floral peach aromas and flavors in this easy drinking, open fermented IPA. 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% Pathways Saison is a mixed fermentation beer blended from barrels varying in vintage. Several yeast and bacteria strains center the profile, combining classic floral, fruity, and spicy saison notes. Each blend is unique and will show an individual character. 8% 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
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%
Off Season IPA is the latest in our new series of one-off open fermented IPAs, using an extra potent blend of whole leaf columbus, mosaic, and medusa hops - a new variety with a unique profile that threaded well with the rest, creating a fruity and dank character that tastes great! 6.4% Flora Rustica, brewed annually since 2009, is a botanical saison made with Oregon grown ingredients, including Mecca Grade malt from Madras and homegrown yarrow. It carries an Italian style vermouth/amaro character into the world of craft beer, with appetizing, herbal bitterness and complex aromatics. 5.7% Oishi IPA blends complex, fruity hops with Mecca Grade malt for a bright, summer IPA. Whole leaf el dorado in the kettle and a huell melon dryhop yield strawberry and cantaloupe notes, while a touch of raw rye and Styrian colibri provides a contrasting earthiness. 6.75% Two Tone is a modern, hoppy wheat beer, combining el dorado and cascade hops in a light, extra dry brew. Lightly bitter yet packed with flavor, the Two Tone uses an open fermented kveik yeast for a well balanced profile that hits all the right notes for summer. 5.2% 2019 Hearts’ Beat is the annual release of our barrel fermented beer featuring dark cherries from Baird Family Orchard. The 2019 vintage was aged one year in oak and blended entirely for draft, using a varietal mix of about 60% chelan and 40% black pearl to lend the beer a blood red color and tannin loaded flavor reminiscent of bold wines. Upright Lite, launched in 2014, has held true to its original recipe, with no artificial colors or flavors, instead using the finest ingredients, right down to the water. We take so much pride in the purity of our water, that we keep a team of experts to make sure every drop is up to snuff before it's brewed into Upright Lite. With only 141 calories per serving, you can enjoy the crisp, clean taste of Upright Lite without compromising your active lifestyle, and with less sugar than a pop, enjoy one anytime you want to celebrate the American spirit with cold refreshment. 4.6% Zomer Blonde is a session style brew inspired by a favorite from Brussels, using a simple grist of pils and wheat with plenty of mt. hood and saaz hops. A nearly 100 F open fermentation with kveik yeast makes this beer flavorful and rustic, threading layers of yeast derived notes with the terroir of its ingredients – earthy, spicy orange meets herbal, chalky slate in this one of a kind of blonde. 5.4% Full Spectrum IPA is brewed with 100% whole leaf cascade and simcoe, highlighting classic character in a soft, well balanced IPA that allows some malt and yeast profile to contribute – an antidote to the narrow and tiresome one dimensional hoppy beers seen everywhere. 5.5% Adult IPA is a straightforward beer, using hop varieties from New Zealand and our house ale yeast. Light and dry with spicy hop notes, this IPA is made for fans of real beer. 6.4% Upright & Away Days Saison was made in collaboration with Marshall Kunz, the man in charge of the upcoming brewery in SE Portland. Belgian pils and French wheat malts create a classic core, with loads of Styrian wolf and kolibri hops and our house saison yeasts yielding awesome spicy, fruity, and herbal notes. 5.7% Illusionist Lager hides away from traditional styles, combining a wheat based grist with comet, meridian, mandarina, and columbia hops. Our house lager yeast makes all the rough edges disappear, leaving a hop forward brew of impossible smoothness. 6.2% Irrational IPA is done west coast style - extra light and dry with a huge hop load. This batch uses exp. 07270 exclusively in the kettle followed by open fermentation with our new house IPA yeast, finishing with a waimea/columbus dryhop. 6.7% Upright Stock Ale is a true beer drinker's beer. A wonderfully balanced strong ale using malt, hops, and yeast sourced from the UK, traditional character is abound in this open fermented homage to Bridgeport. 6.8% Anniversary Saison comes in two forms for our tenth birthday - draft and bottle conditioned. The draft version blends five wine barrels and one gin barrel, evident right away in the nose with an oily, botanical nuance. An earthy hop component plays off the oak, with everything coming together under a rustic profile honoring the older brewers who’ve inspired us. 6.25% Foeder Doppelbock is the first beer to come from our newest addition to the barrel program at Upright. Proudly made with 100% domestically grown and malted barley, then lagered in American oak, this doppelbock balances a warm and rich grain profile with an oaky edge that opens as it warms. 8% Sherry Finish Vanilla Quad is a celebratory brew made for our tenth anniversary. A big, complex beer that started in our open fermenter and later matured in a new foeder, the quad spent it's final weeks in sherry casks with whole Madagascar vanilla beans. Layers of fruit and caramel notes fill in around the vanilla making for a fun but heavily nuanced flavor. 10% Vintage Ives Blend is a draft-only cut of our best casks, dating back to 2016 and 2017. This select blend shows complex brettanomyces development in the nose and layers of well integrated and balanced acidity, finishing with long lasting minerality and appetizing dryness. 6.2% Barrel Aged Wit was brewed last summer with 100% Skagit Valley Malt of northern WA. Traditional spicing of coriander and bitter orange was supplemented with calendula flowers, a favorite here at Upright. The wit then spent several months in old pinot barrels with Baird Family Orchard apricots before being blended just in time for the brewery’s tenth anniversary. 4.5% Black Walnut Celebration Lager was brewed in collaboration with Holly Amlin, author of the PDXBeerGirl website. This beautifully balanced beer began with a straightforward grist similar to a schwarzbier but with deeper malt character. The addition of hand picked and preserved black walnuts and a bit of Steven Smith Honeybush tea layers the profile with a soft nuttiness and gentle vanilla-like note, yielding a very flavorful yet elegant and easy drinking brew. 5.9% Foolish Farmhouse is a session style brew inspired by a favorite from Brussels, using a simple grist of pils and wheat with plenty of willamette and saaz hops. A very warm open fermentation makes this beer flavorful and rustic, threading its ingredients with our house yeast blend seamlessly. 5% Hoppy Pub Ale is a throwback to dank, bitter beers, and perfect to celebrate the closing weeks of winter. Mecca Grade Opal 22 malt lends it a lovely dark amber hue, while a blend of comet and columbus hops carry an oily, resiny character through the finish. 6.2% New Features is a festive saison to open 2019. Open fermented with a unique Norwegian farmhouse yeast, the beer shows wonderful depth with complex fruity notes and a pleasant, earthy honey-like flavor to match the Mecca Grade raw rye in the grist. New Features finishes appetizingly dry like a classic saison. Made in collaboration with longtime Portland brewer Corey Blodgett who visited us from his new home in Wisconsin. 8.25% Fatali Four is a light, wheat based saison aged in vintage casks for over one year with fresh fatali peppers grown by Marvin Estates added during the last two months of maturation. The beer combines a complex wild yeast profile with citric gin barrel notes and the fruity, spicy peppers. 4.75% |