UpCup 2018 Champion — This year’s winning beer came from Taylor Brummett of Newburgh, IN, a member of the Ohio Valley Homebrewers Association. His Scottish Export, named Freedom, was selected as the Best In Show out of 53 unique entries. As a reward, we invited Taylor into our brewhouse this July to brew a production sized batch of his winning recipe, scaling his recipe up from 5 gallons to 1150 gallons. Taylor joined us on the brewdeck to recreate his championship recipe with a fully immersive experience of milling the grain, cleaning out the mash tun, adding hops to the boil kettle, and joining the crew for some well-earned shift beers at the end of the day. A malt-focused beer, Freedom Scottish Export features layers of biscuity and caramel malts. With just enough hops to provide balance and a clean, Scottish yeast strain that adds light esters, this pleasantly sweet beer will entice and delight with rich, malt character and subtle roasted notes. Freedom will tap at Upland retail locations on Tuesday, August 28th and will be poured at the Pro-Am booth of the Great American Beer Festival in Denver this September.