Up Front Brewing

Client Brewer in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Established in 2015

Contact
Strathaven, ML10 6UB, Scotland
Description
Up Front Brewing was founded in 2015 with the aim of sharing our love of exceptional beers and great artwork, with a wider audience.

Here at Up Front we have no loans, no investors, and no kickstarter funding - everything is paid for up front. We brew by renting space in other people’s breweries, with each batch paid for as it’s brewed.

We have very little in the way of overheads, which allows us to spend a considerable amount of time and effort into researching and experimenting with new yeast, bacteria, ingredients, and brewing techniques from around the world. We brew mostly out of 71 Brewing in Dundee, but also use other breweries as and when required.

Up Front has used both Drygate and Alechemy as a base.

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7.6/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
440ml can from Wee Beer Shop at Pollokshaw Road - Deep amber body, shortish white top. Big caramel nose, loads of sweet toffee, marzipan, juicy tart stone fruits with bags of maltiness. Very slightly savoury touch at the back from the salt. Cracking beer that belies its ABV.
Tried from Can from Wee Beer Shop on 10 Jun 2026 at 18:20

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Tried from Can on 05 Jun 2026 at 21:06

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7.5 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Pours clear amber with a beige head. Taste is toasted malt, caramel, brown sugar, touch of saltiness, tea notes. Good.
Tried from Can on 26 May 2026 at 02:25

7.6/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Keg at Heriot watt beer festival. Pours deep amber, nose is caramel, stewed fruit, apple, taste is sweet, chewy, some marzipan, berries. 7/7/8/8/8
Tried on 02 May 2026 at 13:59

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Can at home. Pours clear golden, nose is cucumber, mint, citrus, taste is zesty, minty, cool, refreshing. 7
Tried on 24 Apr 2026 at 13:59

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Can from the Paisley Craft Beer Festival 2026, shared with McCash. Pours golden amber with a thin white head. Aromas of mixed peel, caramel, toast. Taste adds the salt, caramel, mixed dried fruit. Slightly burnt finish.
Tried on 13 Apr 2026 at 14:46

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Can thanks to allmyvinyl.
Appearance - deep amber to red and clear. Thin off-white head.
Nose - caramel, toffee & fudge. Shortbread biscuits and still searching for the salt.
Taste - tonnes of caramel, salt is at the back.
Palate - medium bodied, rich texture, chewy middle and finish.
Overall - good. Not too sweet.
Tried from Can on 13 Apr 2026 at 14:45

7.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle from the Paisley Craft Beer Festival. Pours hazy yellow gold with a thin off-white head. Aromas of yeast esters, orange and lemon, funk. Taste is more citrus, funk, barnyard, bread. Chewy finish. Nice.
Tried on 13 Apr 2026 at 13:05

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
440ml can from Wee Beer Shop. Gluten Free. Golden colour, white foam head and aroma of gooseberry, gerkin, mint. Taste is sour, pickled cucumber, minty note, with some gooseberry hints and light acidity. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying cucumbery sour finish. Quite drinkable.
Tried from Can on 30 Mar 2026 at 21:15

7.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
440ml can. Slightly cloudy, dark ruby colour with average, frothy, slowly osteoporosing, moderately lacing, dark sulphureous head. Sweet-ish, caramel malty, minimally fruity and fungous-woody aroma, hints of old marzipan, date, fig, a touch of blue grapes, cherry. Taste is sweet-ish, caramel malty, bitter hoppy and slightly fruity, minimally woody, hints of date, fig, plum, dried fruit, a touch of cherry; well hidden alcohol.
Dissolved sugar enriched, watery texture, smooth and soft, minimally cloying, simultaneously minimally dry palate, fine, mildly prickly carbonation.
Well balanced, fairly fruity - pretty nice.
Tried from Can from Pakhuis Twente on 29 Mar 2026 at 19:56