WHAT'S AN UPSLOPE? Meteorologically speaking, it’s a front range-covering, water-table-filling, snow-dumping weather pattern that anyone with bindings and a roof rack would die for. Beerologically speaking, it’s carbonated gold. In 2008, Matt Cutter, Henry Wood and Dany Page, kissed their homes in Cleveland, Atlanta and Argentina goodbye to bring their beer-brewing love affair to Boulder, Colorado. With that, Upslope Brewing Company was born. And after ten years of supplying Colorado with trailhead tallboys, and pow-day libations made from the freshest snowmelt, the finest hops and the purest passion for living life outdoors, one thing has become undeniable. These guys didn’t just float another microbrew into the sea of Colorado microbrews. They created a lineup of quality craft beer that tastes as good poured from a tap as they do pulled out of a fishing vest. In other words, for those who call the Continental Divide home, the perfect storm.
On tap at Nola Jane. Pours a cloudy yellow with sticky white lacing. The aroma is melon, pineapple, grass. Slick body, grapefruit, melon, grass, light bitterness, very good.
Pour is a uber clear and bright gold with a large white head. Aroma is a decent bready malt. Flavor is again a decent bready malt with some lemon hop notes. Nothing spectacular but also something I could drink a lot of and not get tired of it.
Can. A- Grains, corn. A- Gold color, clear liquid, white head. T- Corn, sweet malt, grassy, mild bitterness. P- Light body, average texture, average carbonation, astringent finish. O- The only craft beer at a wedding I attended which was also only a mile from Oskar Blues in Lyons, so that was disappointing but not as much as this beer. Pretty bad lager even going in knowing it was going to be not great. Didn't even finish the can.
Stove pipe can thanks to chinhaez pours out crisp clean golden topped with a white head. Nose is floral citrus hops. Taste is more of the nice floral citrus hops and a cereal malt.
12oz can picked up at Harmons. Pours clear deep amber with a small off-white head, good lacing. Toasted malts, caramel, vanilla, chocolate, mild pine. Nice
19.2 ounce can thanks to chinhaez, thanks! Hazy orange not much of a head. Big funky apricot Aroma. Taste is apricot, caramel, funk. Simple bright. Crushable.