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Year-round brews
Saison Vert is an open fermented wheat beer using sun dried black limes, making for a true session/table beer with surprising depth. The Vert rides the fine line of being easy and enjoyable but full of nuance. 4.75%
Supercool IPA combines chinook, crystal, and azacca hops for a broad and balanced profile that hits flavors of cedar and mandarin, while a historical yeast strain and open fermentation lend light peach notes and floral complexities to this easy drinking, dry 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
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% Bill's Bitter is a truly traditional style ale made with notes from beer historian Bill Schneller. He kindly advised us in formulating a bitter we proudly feel is an authentic representation. A blend of marris otter, optic, and pearl barley varieties makes up the base, while a touch of crystal malt and house made invert cane sugar syrup adds to the profile. Hopped appropriately with challenger and East Kent goldings, then open fermented with a classic yeast from West Yorkshire. Bill’s Bitter is the first choice for the discerning drinker. 3.8% Oyster Stout returns for the tenth consecutive year! While only minor recipe tweaks have occurred over the decade, each batch has shown a distinct character because of the variability of the titular ingredient. This release has a great nose of salted chocolate leading into a well balanced stout with just a hint of oyster flavor. A complex finish caps the experience. 5.7% 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% Two Tone Saison is a blend of fresh beer with year old barrel aged saison, bringing together apricot with dank and fruity hops - crystal, cascade, and el dorado. Dry, bright and flavorful with hop oils and light acidity across the palate, the Two Tone modifies a historic style to modern tastes. 5.2% 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% Expansions is a light saison aged in oak on late harvest gewürztraminer, showing distinct aromas of lychee and deep, complex rose. A soft allspice note fills in the background. Bracingly dry and pleasantly tart, the beer elegantly expresses how saison and wine can easily link up. 6% Upright Extra Dry is a pale ale done "brut" style and featuring comet as a dryhop above a backbone of other "c" hops - cascade, citra, and chinook, all yielding a strong nose but in a more drinkable format than the usual IPA base employed for the new, trendy style. 5.5% 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% |