Upright Four (#4)
Four is truly a light yet flavorful beer. The recipe uses a good portion of wheat and incorporates a sour mash into the process to make it slightly tart and extra refreshing. It has delicate aromas and flavors that span a range of floral, grassy and herbal notes. The finish is extra dry and makes the beer a great beverage to pair with food, especially various cheeses and shellfish.
Malts: organic pale, organic wheat, organic munich
Unmalted: rolled wheat
Hops: hallertauer mittelfrüh
4.5% abv
Malts: organic pale, organic wheat, organic munich
Unmalted: rolled wheat
Hops: hallertauer mittelfrüh
4.5% abv
3.5
338 reviews
Portland, United States
Community reviews
On tap at Liquid Laundry, Shanghai. Pours golden yellow with a white head. Not much aroma minimal taste. Sweetish finish.
On tap at Fermentoren. Hazy golden with white head. Aroma is funky. grass, malts and white pepper. Taste is sweet malty, funky, wheat, herbs, white pepper, yeast with a yeasty finish
Tap @Fermentoren, Cph. Pours hazy yellow with a small, staying, creamy white head. Aroma has funk, grass, malts, pepper, light esters. Medium carbonation, fine dry and quite dry mouthfeel. Flavour has good malty sweetness, funk, yeast, pepper. Good grassy notes. Elegant and fresh.
Bottle: Served in a shaker:
Exploding white head. Cloudy lemon/bright ish yellow body.
Nose has some tea herbs, yeast, light citrus, some grains, light yellow fruit like apricot...
Flavour has some soft grains, malts, yeast, vanilla, yellow fruit like apricot, light peach, some soft bitters...
Aftertaste is light bitter, fruity, light citrus and light floral...
Low carbo, light watery mouthfeel, medium bodied.
With the last poor a lot of dark yeast sediments came along...
Nice beer.
Tap at Hatos Bar. Belgian yeast-forward nose with some pear and apple notes alongside some herbal aromas. Active carbonation with a light body. Lemon zest and citrus on the palate. Slight peppery finish with more zesty notes. Tasty and refreshing but maybe a tad too sweet.
Tap at Salon Piva. Pale yellow color with thick white head. Very nice aroma of citrus, floral hops, spices, yeast. Taste is behind aroma with yeast, malt, floral notes, funk.
0,1l from tap at Salon Piva. light yellow almost clear color, rather big white head. smells funky, acidic, lightly sour, citric, light horse blankett, some parfume, yeasty, flowery, light green apples. lovely smell. light body, soft carbonation, rather watery mouthfeel. tastes citric, parfume, flowery, some yeast, light funk. finishes acidic and lightly dry with notes of (belgian) yeast and citric / light funky notes. nice beer, lovely smell, taste is rather light and not as pronounced as the smell. still quite good beer.
Tap at Salon piva. Aroma is really promising with pineapple, exotic fruits, light to moderate funk. Very thin taste which doesnot live up to the aroma. Watery.
Tap at Beer Temple Amsterdam. Nice creamy white top. Light sour aroma with hints of hay and stables. Mellow, faint sour taste. Fairly neutral, not much bitterness. Faint fruityness. Fairly drinkable. Light body and avg to high co2 levels.
From tap at Damian Beer&Ale stand at Salon piva craft beer festival, Bratislava. Pours light cloudy golden liquid, huge frothy white head, Aroma: phenolic, spicy, wheat, peppery, floral, Taste: light to medium sweet, light to medium bitter, light ot medium sour, floral, wheat, banana, phenolic, citurs, Palate: light body, soft to average carbonation, creamy mouthfeel, long bitter aftertaste, Overall: very drinkable, light, floral, wheat, enjoyed.
Draft 0.25l at the Beer Temple Amsterdam Netherlands.21.03.2016.Pour it hazy yellow color with small white head.Aroma of wheat and lemon zest.Taste starts with wheat,continues with just pinch of tart and herbal note,light smooth texture,ok balanced.
Keg at The Grove, Huddersfield. Hazy yellow shade. Short white head. Aroma is pithy fruits, creamy lemon pie, herby. Taste is light, quite tart and very drinkable and refreshing. Would be a great one to knock back on a summer’s day.
draft, cloudy pale yellow with a small head. Aroma is zest, wheat, lemons. Tart, acidic, refreshing with a sour finish. Light and nice.
April 12th, 2014 - Another of Upright Brewing’s integer beers, the Four is slight and svelte and sweet. With just the lightest tan, it has more yellow than orange in its hazy body, and a crop of foam to delight and impress the easily amused. Light and wheat, the smell is well suited for a spring day, and appears to be accented with bergamot and freshly zested Meyer lemons. The taste is light and delicate, catching most of my attention with the tangy dimension. A bit later there’s a nice acidity, backed by a dry and wonderfully savory wheat tone that powerfully pushes a fresh cracked wheat flavor. The medium-short aftertaste offers one last dry burst of grain, and then evaporates, prepping me for another welcome sip.
Draft at Slow Boat Tavern in Seattle. Hazy lemon and gold, thick foam. Bright yeasty aroma, very clean, tasty yeast body. Mild banana, good sweet clean saison. Not complex but nice.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a semi-hazy to light transparent semi-burnt orange color to it. A one finger white foamy head dissipated within about thirty seconds leaving some messy lacing sticking and then sliding here and there.
The smell started off with some sweet grassy to citrus dryness. Light wheat strains in as it warms.
The taste was mainly sweet with a light bitterness sticking in there. Sticky sweet citrusy aftertaste leads into a semi-dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. Carbonation runs smooth enough to allow sweet grassy/citrus combination sticking slightly on my tongue.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good saison that I would have again.
An okay saison, though not much to separate it from competitors. Light citrus with a nice Belgian spice aroma.
Wheat yellow with large foamy white head. Not much aroma. Light and fruity tasting, almost like a white wine. Sweet and refreshing.
Pours golden, slightly hazy. Huge, huge foamy, pillowy tan head. Not loads of aroma, a bit of grass. Sweet, with some notes of grape soda. Finish is not actually all that dry, contra the deScription. Surprisingly warming for being only 4.5%.
Lots of straw and not a lot of much else. Hazy yellow pour with ok head. Light crisp finish. Papery. Tap at Drake.
Sampled from a bottle,
this ale had a hazy straw yellow pour and gave a fluffy, white, lasting cover, there was ample carbonation, streams of carbonation everywhere, it left nice rings and spots of lacing on the glass,
the aromas were floral hops that had a touch of spice and citrus, light citrus fruit that resembled lemon, light malt with some bread, little to no funk, a little yeast and powder sugar sweetness,
it had flavors of light citrus hops and malt, a little lemon fruit, and a little sweetness,
the finish had a light hop bitterness and citrus bite that left the mouth a bit dry,
the mouth feel was light and creamy, and there was lively carbonation,
this beer had a very nice presentation,
the nose and flavor were dim, it was light on the tongue and gave some dryness, I let the glass warm up hoping the nose would get better but there was not a lot here, a disappointing drink, not much fruitiness and hardly any funk, I expected more.
On tap at Borefts Beer Festival 2015 day 2. Pours a hazy pale yellow with a bog, white head. Aroma has grains, elderflower, yeast, bread, slight hops, slight diacetyl. Taste is fresh, dry, light bready. Slightly hop bitter and some sweet, floral stuff. High carbonation and a light body.
Pours golden yellow, a bit pale with a 1 finger sized head Smells straight up lemonade, lots of rose pedals, and wheat. Taste is really light and floral, a touch of tropical hops, a hint of cloves, lots of yeast, and a touch of lemon. It is highly carbonated and light. Overall it is an easy drinking saison. What it should be.
Keg at mothe Kelly’s London. It pours a clean pale golden color with large fluffy white head. Aroma is tart grassy grainy with cloudberries and lemon. Taste is tart and crispy withemon juice straw and light saltiness and funk. Medium bodied with good carbonation. Overall, tasty
Bomber. Pours a golden orange with a white head and aroma of spices and wheat. Taste is light, with spices and yeast coming through along with light funk and wheat leading to a spicy finish.
With Z, pours a semi clear light golden color with a large white pillowy head. Nose is yeast with spices, namely cloves and coriander. Taste is light with mild spice, and wheat. Drinks rather easily. Finish is dry and abrupt and ends on the same tasting notes. A very light but refreshing saison . Quaff Score 7 / 10
Tap at Borefts ’15. Pours hazy pale yellow with a small off white head. Aroma of light fruits, malt and bready notes. Flavour is light moderate sweet and bitter. Above light bodied with soft carbonation. Pretty dull.
Keg at de molen borefts. Translucent pale yellow coloured pour with a lasting white head. Aroma is damp, hay, sweet grains, wheat, floral. Flavour is doughy grains, wheat, light floral notes. Palate is slightly flabby, moderate to high carbonation. Mellow saison yeast character. Not that crisp.
American saison, at Borefts. Very thick, dense, frothy, towering snow white head on top of a pale yellow beer with greenish hue, cloudy all over. Aroma of lemon zest, white pepper, dry hay, bready wheat, gooseberry, sourdough, field flowers - reasonably ’saison-esque’ indeed. Dryish fruity taste with pleasant sourish accents of lemon, kiwi and soapy starfruit, bit bready, doughy even, with a long, florally and grapefruity hop bitterness in the end, aromatic and drying, but pairing well with the yeasty fruitiness and the bready maltiness. Very quenching, and isn’t that the first intention of a 4.5% ABV saison?
Sampled @ Borefts ’15. Pours a hazy golden beer with a big white head on top. Aroma of slight barnyard funk, lime, citrus. Flavor is light sweet, fruity and light tart. Very light bitter, fruity finish. Very nice!