Upland Rad Red Amber Ale

Brewed by Upland Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Bloomington, Indiana USA

Dark amber to copper in color with a small, but relatively stable off-white head. Toffee, butterscotch, raw sugar, and fruit heavy in the aromas, with some iron, grass and grapefruit in the background. Sweet caramel malt and light fruit in the flavors to start. Middle has a bit of hops that are mildly herbal Full feel. Just noticed that they have someone riding a crotch rocket on the label, how did that get bu the ATF? LIght mineral in the finish and fairly crisp. A touch sweet, but overall a amber that I find quite drinkable.

IBGF 2009: Amber hues with a solid creamy almost white head and very good lace. The aroma has notes of caramel and toffee with some biscuit too, fruity and grassy hops, hint of mineral water and a touch of macadamia nuts. The taste is rather straight forward amber offering, sweet malt with a moderate citric hop background accented by a dose of earthy character. The mouth feel is lively and refreshing enough but the finish is a tad chalky. Overall a solid Amber Ale and worth a try.

This draft brew from a beer festival poured a very large sized head of frothy medium sized off-white colored bubbles that were and left behind a transparent softly carbonated light copper colored body and an excellent lacing. The mild aroma was malty. The crisp mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The flavor contained notes of acidic hops. Not one that I would buy again.

Amber pour, a bit cloudy. Caramel malt jumps out on the nose and tongue. Some fruity esthers and crackers. Not bad. Just ok.

Bottle. Shared by Chris at Nessun Dorma. The beer pours to an amber body with an off-white head. Aroma is malt and seemingly honey. Flavor is "sour" up front with some malt of some sort. Again that honey and some spicy something. Average palate. This beer is a pass.

How am I the first to rate this? Missed Radfest and they were tapped out by the next time I visited. Anyway, this is bottled, from a sixpack which features a different cartoon character on every bottle’s label. To the beer: lightly toasty, very richly maltly aroma with lightly tart earth. Clear amber-brown body with a creamy, rocky tan head. Bittersweet malty taste, the toffee heavier than nuts and yeast, a little acrid on the back end. Prominent caramel with a light touch of wood. Medium-full body, pretty much a textbook amber, likely to have this more often than Fat Tire.

Re-rate a few days later, bottle from the same sixer - much more hop flavor, specifically sweaty C-hop citrus notes. Either this is varying from bottle to bottle or my palate was dead the other day.

bottle - Pours amber with suspended yeast flakes and a one finger, lingering head that laces well. The aroma is mainly malt with notes of caramel and some fruitiness. It tastes of lightly toasted malt and a good, crisp, moderate hops. It’s very well hopped for an amber. It’s medium bodied with a moderately bitter finish where, to me, the hops go a bit flat. Good brew overall. Give it a try.

Hazy orange pour with suspended yeasty’s . Grass, grapefruit, and caramel on the nose. Toasted malts, light caramel and piney hops.