Upland Brewing Company Blackberry

Blackberry
(has 3 batches)

 

Upland Brewing Company in Bloomington, Indiana, United States 🇺🇸

  Lambic Style - Fruit Regular
Score
7.37
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks (all batches): 64
(Previously labeled Blackberry Lambic). Blackberry is fermented by wild yeast and aged in oak casks for nearly a year, which creates a tart, complex beer. We then add whole blackberries, grown in Indiana, giving the beer a sweet, berry aroma that blends nicely with the tang of sour beer. The beer is bottle conditioned, which adds a zesty and refreshing carbonation. Blackberry is the perfect drink to share with friends over a plate of good cheese and fresh fruit.

(Old description) In the spring of 2006, I brewed 300 gallons of top-fermented beer using wild yeast to create a Belgian-style Lambic. We conditioned the beer in oak casks and then initiated a secondary fermentation in the casks using whole fruit from Huber’s Orchard in Starlight, Indiana. You should experience a tart, almost sour taste balanced by the aromatic and richly flavorful addition of whole blackberries - perfect to share with friends, and a platter of good cheese and fresh fruit. - Caleb Staton, Head Brewer
 

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6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
@dmacs UFC100 Gathering courtesy of MrBendo thanks Todd-750ml bottle–pours an off white ring for a head and hazy orange/red color. Aroma is vinegar, tart fruit. Taste is vinegar, tart fruit, light malt, yeast.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jul 2009 at 09:53

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle 75cl. @ Papsoes blindtasting. [ Bottle #19. ]Unclear hazy medium red orange color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is berry, apricot - peach, dark berrys, brett, oak. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate berry acidic with a average to long duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is flat. [20090612]
Tried from Bottle on 10 Jul 2009 at 06:32

6.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottled. A murky orange-brown beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of fruit, as well as medium notes of malt, as well as light acidic notes of berries. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, berries, and acetone, leading to a tart finish. Thanks KimJohansen for sharing.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jun 2009 at 14:48

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Hazy orange with a tiny off white head. Sour aroma with lacto, peach, sour berries and woody notes. Flavour was sour with sour berries, leather, wood and lacto. Finished sour.
Tried on 14 Jun 2009 at 18:00

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
From bottle, blind #19. Pours murky dark orange with a fully gone head. Aroma is mild brett, acidic and orange fruity. Mild acidic, fruity and dry. Vague acetone base flavoured. Smooth acidic and fruity finish. Nice and mellow.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Jun 2009 at 13:34

6.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of KimJohansen. Pours a cloudy and opaque red with a small off-white head. Tart and fruity nose. Medium body, a little low in carbonation, indefinable berry accents with a fairly tart finish and some acetone. 120609
Tried from Bottle on 14 Jun 2009 at 13:02

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
bottle at Fort Wayne tasting - Pours pinkish amber with a thin head. It smells of tart berries and some lambic funk. The flavor is big on the blackberries with some sweetness that’s well complimented by tart berries and the funky wild yeast. It all blends together very well and the spritzy carbonation makes for a pleasant mouthfeel. I didn’t get the big deal about the Upland lambics when I had my first one, the peach, as I was unimpressed. Now I get it. Excellent beer. I hope more of them are like this one.
Tried from Bottle on 31 May 2009 at 23:28

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Probably one of the two best of the Upland fruit lambics, along with the raspberry.. Fruit and yeast in the complex, acidic aroma. Very light pickle brine in the flavor, along with fruit. It is perceivable as a berry, but not necessarily as blackberry. Nice pink color. Moderate carbonation.
Tried on 02 May 2009 at 12:45

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Courtesy of tpd975. Pours hazy grapefruit – puke with thin white head. The aroma is nice and berry like followed by modest crushed aspirin tartness. The taste has a pulse of sweet malts and sweet berry-ness that quickly recede into more and more berry skin tartness and aspirin dust but maintaining a bit of balance.
Tried on 03 Apr 2009 at 22:51

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
courtesy tpd975. pours copper, thin white head. Aroma is yeasty and of berry. Taste, similar, blackberry, not overly bitter as anticipated, yeasty with some lingering tart fruitiness. Good stuff.
Tried on 03 Apr 2009 at 01:39