Upstream Brewing Company
Brewpub
in Omaha,
Nebraska,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Upstream Brewing Company (Old Market)
Established in 1996
theisti (5524) reviewed Firehouse ESB from Upstream Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz draft at the brewpub (old market location). Pour is slightly hazed orange copper with a small off white head. Aroma of mineral grains, toasted with some earthy British hops. Taste mirrors the nose quite closely, featuring mainly on the toasted grain. The hops give a slightly bitter crispness that leads to a quick finish. Palate is clean, and quite drinkable. This went really well with the excellent Pork Schnitzel.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12 oz draft at the brewpub (old market location). Pour is ruby-copper, mostly clear and still. Pretty tan head. Aroma is a sweet malt with some interesting earthiness. Taste is the crisp malt sweetness, grassy hay and cloves. Palate is coating and lasting. Nice Oktoberfest.
Oakes (33097) reviewed Grand Cru from Upstream Brewing Company 17 years ago
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.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Oak-Aged Tripel from Upstream Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Special Bottling 3/4 l Orange beer with slight haze, no head. Fruity, passion fruit, brandy nose. In the taste, a wild strawberry flavour, alcohol, some fresh, but sweet malts. Quite slick and viscuous, alcoholexplosion backthroat. Very good tripel, if changed very much by the aging.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Grand Cru from Upstream Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
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.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thanks to valpoaj for this one - deep mahogany beer, with high carbonation and a frothy head - semi-earthy, almost leathery aroma, with some fruit skins and pits, chocolate, some vinous notes - fairly earthy, with strong oak, light chocolate, dark fruit, some red wine character - a wee bit of warming spiciness - a bit of funkiness - seems like it’s infected, but it’s good that way.
notalush (7333) reviewed Oak-Aged IPA from Upstream Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Thanks to iowaherkeye for this - hazy strawberry-colored beer - smells of oak, vanilla, pine-like hops, faint diacetyl - fairly herbal and hoppy for something barrel aged - faintly spicy, with underlying bready malt - the mild background earthiness that seems common to this brewer makes it seems more like a hoppy saison - the barrel adds an odd dimension that works better than I thought it would - not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
750 ml bottle from Iowaherkeye, thanks Joey! Bot in 2006 #173/272; Nose of cherries, tartness, light barnyard, and oak; murky strawberry with a big pink head; flavor is lightly tart, with huge oakiness, bready yeast, and cherry-vanilla woody fruit flavor finishing up. Very good stuff!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Thanks to valpoaj for the bottle - hazy honey-colored beer, with minimal head - really tart and acidic aroma, with some over ripe fruit and serious leathery/cheesy funk - very authentic - the taste is actually rather sweet for a lambic, with some notes of oranges and honey - mild acidity - notes of vanilla and oak - some moderate barnyard and aged cheese complexity, with a hint of leather - some belgian ale wheaty/grainy character - the loow carbonation adds to a slick mouthfeel, and an oddly thick consistency, especially for the style - dries out a little in the finish, and some phenolics become apparent, but remains far too sweet for a gueuze - it tastes like they blended a gueuze with a belgian blonde ale - I think they should have shot for a lower abv - maybe it would have dried out and gotten funkier - decent, but it lacks the punch and complexity I’ve experienced in their other beers.
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.
