Upstream Brewing Company Grand Cru

Grand Cru

 

Upstream Brewing Company in Omaha, Nebraska, United States 🇺🇸

  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production
Score
7.53
ABV: 9.4% IBU: - Ticks: 18
A terrific balance of citrus, earth, honey & oak. The Brewmaster's favorite.
 

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6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
@Noogfest High5 Thanks heemer77-750ml bottle #978 of 1126-pours no head and yellow/gold color. Aroma is vinuous, dry, tart/lemon, yeast. Taste is dry, tart/lemon, yeast, light fruit. Farmhouse character.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Jul 2009 at 10:41

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Tasting at Papsoe
Hazy amber color; small head. Very nice aroma, woody with some vanilla and light fruity sourness, dynamic, interesting. Medium body, some malt flavor, medium sweetness, light grape fruitness and delicate vanilla. Correct bitterness. A bit chalky at the end. Chaotic but also interesting.
Tried on 11 Jan 2009 at 18:10

8.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of pepsican. Hazy amber golden with a small off-white head. Very delicious bourbon aroma. Medium-bodied with very dry caramel accents and some fruit. Distinct woody accents and a very dry finish. Yummy. 311008
Tried from Bottle on 18 Nov 2008 at 13:00

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
75 cL bottle, courtesy of Papsoe. Pours hazy deep orange with a fully gone head. Dense spiced and wineous aroma. Light acidic and woody note in addition. Smooth wooden and mild fruity initially flavoured. Followed by a wineous and fruity flavour with a mild spice note beneath. Smooth and slight spiecd note showing through. Mellow finish.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Nov 2008 at 02:54

8.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Golden-bronze colour. Oaky, caramelly, complex...a knock out. Sweet, oaky, balanced. Nice alcoholic signature. Full value.
Tried on 02 May 2008 at 10:38

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Medium yellow head; amber-foxy beer. Oak, vanilla, Bourbon, fruity esters. Mellow lactic & vinous taste, with brandy, coffee cream, terribly complex. Fruity flavour, as cherries lagered on oak. Very layered beer, well-bodied and viscuous. Excellent oak-aged beer (at least, that’s how it presents itself), complex as few other.
Tried on 24 Apr 2008 at 12:37

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle shared by notalush, gracious. This was probably the most surprising beer of the night. It has a very dark, almost orange, golden color. The aroma was a nice mix of funkiness and sweetness with some fruitiness at the end. Pretty awesome sweet funk. Taste I found to have lost the funk with light candi sugar and some sweet estery bubblegum. The body has some heft to it. The one issue I had was a sort of sticky-oily-sweet syrup aspect through the flavor, some in the aroma and felt in the body. Kind of like a sour beer was dumped from barrels, hand bottled, oxidized and then a small portion was blended with a good Belgian. Is that a weird analogy?
750mL, Rodenbach smaller tulip glass.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2008 at 11:38

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750 from valpoaj (thanks, man!), brewed Sept. ’06, bottled Aug. ’07 (I think) - hazy copper beer, with a frothy, lasting head - wonderful, full, complex aroma of leathery, bretty, funky/cheesy qualities, with mild fruit sweetness (cherries, citrus) and acidity hiding underneath (I could have smelled this beer all night) - very soft in the mouth - the flavor is not as sour as the aroma suggests - the leather, brett funk, and cheese character is there, but it takes a back seat to some candi sugar sweetness and some bright fruity character - quite earthy, with a mild lambic-like brininess far in the back - in another year or so this will be phenomenal, but even now it’s awesome - yea...I’m gonna need some more of this.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Mar 2008 at 09:54