Upland Blueberry Lambic

Brewed by Upland Brewing Company
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Bloomington, Indiana USA

Thanks to yjb for supplying me with this bottle. Pours deep red with some fizzy white bubbles. Smells of funk, blueberries, brett, oak, dust, some residual sugary hints. Tastes tarte with a load of complimentary blueberries, some sweet touches, an underlying intense dry sourness and hints of oak. This is an amazing beer and I can’t wait to sample the strawberry and blackberry versions.

One of my highlights at YEHA. Poured light purplish color with lively head. Aroma is of tart blueberry, funk. Taste has a wonderful tartness, brett funk, woody, with a very nice balance of blueberry. Crisp, dry and great. I want more.

shared by MrBendo at Moose’s YEHA. Deep hazy amber in color. Aroma is sour cherries, blueberry, light notes of funky cheese. Taste is tart fruit (cherry), light to moderately funky with some horseblanket, and some sweet blueberries and light notes of caramel malt in the background. Finishes moderately sour with lingering light blueberry.

Bottle cbus-x shared by ogglethorp, thanks again Brian! Pours sort of a dark salmon color with a white head. Aroma of light oak, funk, oak, and blueberry. Flavors of sour/sweet blueberry, oak, and pale malt. Medium body, sour/fruity/vinous with a dry sour finish.

Bottle, batch 1. Has the most beautiful red/brown pour, though it has no head. Aroma is rich, grapey, super tart/unripe plum, cherry pits. Though I can’t smell blueberry outright, the fruit influence is very clear. As blueberry is such a sweet fruit, the lack of a direct "blueberry" aroma is not surprising. Flavor is puckering up front, sweet in the middle, and dry and sour in the finish. A nice mellow lambic fruitiness retains through. Horsey and funky and probably the most sour of any American beer I’ve had, save La Folie. This actually reminds me quite a bit of La Folie, with a little bit of fruit. This is a fantastic beer. Hopefully batch 2 will carbonate and reach the heights this has.

Yeha 07. Shared by Mrbendo. Thanks Todd! Pours a nice light off purple with a foamy fizzy head. Aroma is tons of tart fresh blueberries, but not like the blueberry character you get in a regular fresh blueberry beer- this had some nice tart hints, wierd yeasty phenolics- almost getting plasticy but not quite as severe as Cantillon- with a nice earhty bretty funk to it- can tell it will be sour. Good tart sour flavor- with lot sof blueberries, earth and dust, with bret farmhouse notes, wooded to hell- and some fresh oak vanilla which takes away form the lambic properties- still funky though. Nice tart finish and a lot of lactic and maybe even malic acidity? Harsh yet delightful acid on the tongue. I was really loving this beer. I really wish I could get some more. My last note said just as good or even better than the Cantillon Blåbær!!

Shared at Madness with the Moose. Poured a red-brown color with a small off-white head. The aroma is great and funky. Notes of leather and horse. Some tart fruitness as well. the flavor was tart and lightly acidic. Notes of fruit, berry skins tannins and some funk on the finish. Light to medium bodied.

Pours dark purple/red witha fine, quickly dissipating head. Aroma is dry, with a woody, tart aroma. Mouthfeel is bubbly with a moderate weight. Flavor is very tart with a blueberry hint floating about it. I think it’s very spot-on for a lambic. Maybe not crazy sour, but definitely true to form.