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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7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Cask at the hanging bat. Pours deep ruby brown, nose is chocolate, coconut, cocoa powder, taste is sweet, chocolate, coconut. --- Beer merged from original tick of Coconut Ahab on 03 Feb 2019 at 18:00 - Score: 8
Tried from Cask on 02 Feb 2019 at 15:52

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On keg at the Hanging Bat. Appearance - cloudy amber. Thin head. Nose - passionfruit straight away. Not sure what Kalamansi is but maybe it's in there too. Taste - yeah passion fruit and freshly squeezed grapefruit juice. Palate - light bodied, long and lean and very refreshing. Overall - enjoyable.
Tried on 31 Dec 2018 at 13:05

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Hazy golden beer. Smell is actually less sour than you'd think but the taste is quite tart. Sour citrus, some hop. It's a fairly straightforward sour but lovely for it.
Tried on 30 Dec 2018 at 20:09

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Can: Poured a pitch black with beige head. Aroma is roasty. Taste is mixed roasted and Smokey malts, balanced finish of some milky chocolate.
Tried from Can on 25 Dec 2018 at 18:49

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Keg at the hanging bat. Pours hazy, nose is cereal, grapefruit, mango, taste is juicy citrus, sweet, fruity.
Tried on 24 Dec 2018 at 20:53

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Can via Uber Eats delivery. Poured a orange with two finger off white head. Aroma is citrus hops. Taste is forward citrus and grapefruit balanced malt that leaves way to a grassy bitter finish.
Tried from Can on 23 Dec 2018 at 19:30

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330ml can from Good Spirits, Glasgow. Hazy orange golden colour, white foam head leaving some lacing and tropical fruit mango hoppy aroma. Taste is malt caramel with orange marmalade, woody pine and earthy hop aroma. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry tangy bitter finish. Quite drinkable
Tried from Can on 14 Dec 2018 at 22:11

7.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 9.5
On tap at BrewDog Tower Hill. Murky muddy brown olive colour. Big fresh hop flower aroma. Like sticking your face in a bag of hops. Some sweetness from alcohol. Some dryness on the finish. Light bitterness. Lime grapefruit flavours. Light agile dipa. Good fruit. Good lightness. It sings of citrus hops. Good.
Tried from Draft on 12 Nov 2018 at 18:30

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On tap at Brewdog Oxford, Monday 5th November 2018 in the company of Helen and Geraint. Pours dirty puddle brown with a white head, it might look a little scuzzy but tastes good, quite soft in the mouth, juicy but a little sweet, it's very good. A7 A2 T8 P4 Ov16 3.7
Tried from Draft on 05 Nov 2018 at 17:20

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Keg at BD Soho, 18/10/18. Murky orange with a decent off white cap. Nose is ripe tropical fruits, pine needle, bitter citric pith, toasted malts. Taste comprises bitter citric zest, raw pineapple, mango flesh, airy malts, light pine flicker Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close pierced with semi aggressive hop bitterness. Decent bitter number.
Tried on 31 Oct 2018 at 11:22