Four Play - Upright Brewing Company

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rAvg: 4.29
pDev: 10.49%
Reviews: 53
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Brewed by:
Upright Brewing Company visit their website
Oregon, United States

Style | ABV
Saison / Farmhouse Ale |  5.00% ABV

Availability: Limited (brewed once). bottle (51), on-tap (2)

Notes:
This beer is retired; no longer brewed.

'Four' aged in La Bete Pinot Noir barrels with Oregon cherries.

Hops: hallertauer mittelfrüh
Malts: organic pale, wheat, organic munich
Unmalted: rolled wheat
Also: cherry puree
Yeasts and bacteria: French saison, brettanomyces clausennii, lactobacillus, delbrueckii

750ml bottles
First release - April 2010 [label shown]
Second release - March 2011
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Reviews by tpd975:
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tpd975

Florida

4.22/5  rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

My favorite label ever. I like boobies.

A: Pours a golden hue with a small white head.

S: Light apple, yeast, and sour cherries

T: Yeasty fruity goodness. Subtle tart cherry, mild sweet apple with a hint of granny smith.

M: Medium in body smooth, with nice snappy carbonation.

D: Good, did I mention I absolutely love the label.

Serving type: bottle

12-25-2010 20:16:49 | More by tpd975
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Big thanks metalgdog for bringing this to the tasting.
The beer pours a hazy pink-orange with no head. The nose is a touch sour with a bit of funk and fruit, but very little in the way of Pinot barrels. The taste is a semi-sweet with a bit of stone fruit and lingering tartness.This is a genuinely drinkable sour that's not overly sour with great fruit character, but is still lacking wine barrel characteristics I'd hope for. The beer drinks like a wine with great sour/tartness and carbonation, but it lacks the oakiness and dry, vinous characteristics I think a beer like Supplication does so well by comparison.

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Bomber into taster glass.

A: Pink Hue, Passes Some Light, White Head, Mild Lacing

S: Pinot Noir, Mild Cherries, Mild Apricots

T: Bitter Cherries, Pinot Noir, Mild Sour Mash

M: Decent Carbonation, Medium Bodied, Semi Bitter

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#500
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Appearance. Pours a nice peach-amber with a finger of white (maybe slightly pink, actually) head that fades pretty quickly to a skim.

Smell. Sour and lightly tart fruits; tart cherries, apples, peaches, and nectarines with a little strawberry and melon. A little bit woody and a little bit funky. Smells pretty awesome.

Taste. Sour light fruits and cherries, not nearly the huge fruit taste that I expected from the amazing smell, but still very nice. Some old dank wood and a little dry earthy funk. Fairly light flavours ...not watery, just lighter.

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Four Play from Upright Brewing Company
94 out of 100 based on 92 user ratings.