SentinAle is a collaboration between several local breweries: Upland, Bloomington Brewing Company, The Tap, Switchyard, Quaff On, Metalworks, and Feed Store with the Conservation Law Center (CLC) to help inform local residents about the Southern Indiana Sentinel Landscape partnership program. This initiative connects landowners to financial and technical assistance for conservation projects to support rural working landscapes, conserve our natural resources, and ensure the long term sustainability of our military installations.

Basically, this is free money for private landowners over a vast swath of the state (tens of thousands of acres) to help better their land through forest management, habitat preservation and restoration, soil improvement, and watershed protections. Our partnership with the CLC will help ensure that these funds don’t go unused by helping to spread awareness of the program to local landowners.

Each brewery created their own version of this brew with a few things in common: a grain bill which includes locally malted spelt (an ancient relative of wheat) and triticale (a hybrid of wheat and rye) from Sugar Creek Malt in Lebanon Indiana, and the brewer’s choice of a Saison or Farmhouse yeast.

Upland’s take on this beer is fermented with a spicy/citrusy French Saison yeast, dry hopped with locally grown Copper hops from Tiger Claw Hop Farm in Crawfordsville, then blended with a small portion of Basis, our oak aged sour blonde ale.