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Fatali Four
Upright Brewing Company
- From:
- Upright Brewing Company
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- Chile Beer
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- 92
- Avg:
- 4.13 | pDev: 7.99%
- Reviews:
- 52
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 30, 2020
- Added:
- Nov 15, 2009
- Wants:
- 62
- Gots:
- 17
A blend of barrel aged Four that has fresh homegrown fatali chiles added for a couple months before bottling. It also incorporates light use of brettanomyces yeasts providing a contrasting earthy backdrop for the bright chile flavors. Cellar for up to three years.
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Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
4.38/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.38/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Found a chile beer in 2020, I'm tickled. Been awhile, appearance of chile beers are always so subjective, oh wait that's all beers! Anywho cloudy gold with a white cap and tons of lacing. Smell has the chili peppers but they are not the star, lemon curd and zest, flowers, bready grains, straw, and dry earth, it is quite beautiful. Taste sees that pepper step right up to the plate, gets spicy as it warms, met by the nose elements but more dull in comparison, slight wild funk and oak are neat though. Feel is bright, spicy, grainy, and oaked. A unique beer for sure, honestly hard to rate but certainly one of if not the best chile beer I have had as it elevates the style
Oct 30, 2020Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
4/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Drank at the end of June 2015. Notes indicate and I still maintain this is the most unique and best Upright beer I've ever had. Pours a golden color with 3/5" white head and good clarity.
Aroma pops bright brettiness, smooth pepper heat, hay, grass, lemondrop, relatively clean barnyard and wheat notes. This is nice, real nice, I am impressed (finally) with an Upright beer.
Taste has a respectable tartness that doesn't just sneak on you like a wild ale in saison clothing. Good wooden presence to it, light body, brett chewiness. This is one of those complex, full on flavorful but yet ever so light you can drink it on a 100 degree day and it is still fitting. The fatali chiles are real nice, warmth on the backend, paired with crisp carbonation and pilsen like malt levity, not scorching everything, but enhancing the taste and mouthfeel.
This really borders on just being a saison with chiles as opposed to a "chile" beer, but either way you slice it, this is a fun drink that I hope to run into again in the future. Best stuff I've had from 'em.
May 11, 2020Aroma pops bright brettiness, smooth pepper heat, hay, grass, lemondrop, relatively clean barnyard and wheat notes. This is nice, real nice, I am impressed (finally) with an Upright beer.
Taste has a respectable tartness that doesn't just sneak on you like a wild ale in saison clothing. Good wooden presence to it, light body, brett chewiness. This is one of those complex, full on flavorful but yet ever so light you can drink it on a 100 degree day and it is still fitting. The fatali chiles are real nice, warmth on the backend, paired with crisp carbonation and pilsen like malt levity, not scorching everything, but enhancing the taste and mouthfeel.
This really borders on just being a saison with chiles as opposed to a "chile" beer, but either way you slice it, this is a fun drink that I hope to run into again in the future. Best stuff I've had from 'em.
Reviewed by donspublic from Texas
4.22/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.22/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Poured from tap into a wineglass, minimal head, good lacing. Hazy pale yellow in the glass. Smells slightly acidic, somewhat earthy. Taste is initially a acidic, tart, lemony, sweet tart, then the finish is super dry, earthy with the chili heat. Supurb ride on a sip. Great drinking beer on the patio. Not super with the heat, but it lingers on the palate.
Jul 21, 2019Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)
4/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Bottle: Poured an amber color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of slightly caramelized malt with some floral chili notes and very little heat. Taste is a nice mix of rustic Belgian style saison malt with some floral chile with mild heat also perceptible. Body is about average for style with good carbonation. I’m not a big fan of chile beers usually but this was quite good with balance heat.
May 13, 2019Reviewed by brenn79 from Idaho
4.15/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.15/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
750 bottle, thanks bro- Pours mostly clear with a medium white head that doesn't last long, leaving a thin collar and some islands of foam. Aroma is sour, tart, granny smith apples, bit of brett, dust. The taste is granny smith apples, dusty books, earthy, light on the mouthfeel, the peppers don't amount to really any heat, there is a slight vegetal flavor assuming from the peppers. Very good easy drinking sour.
Sep 03, 2018Reviewed by Roustabout from District of Columbia
3.92/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Drinkable for a chili beer; paradoxically, the lighter base balances the capsaicin, letting it dovetail with the thyme-y hop presence. Still probably wouldn’t go for a full pour of it.
May 27, 2018Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.96/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
750ml bottle - hmmmm, chili pepper heat AND bad ol' Brett, that's a new one for me.
This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and creamy bone-white head, and lots of rising effervescence that just keeps on adding to a spoon-necessitating experience. Eventually there is some random limestone arch lace left around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of sassy stone fruit (apricot and nectarine), blended domestic citrus rind, gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser cereal wheatiness, indistinct earthy chili pepper spice, a mildly funky yeastiness, and some tame vanilla-forward oaken barrel notes. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and bready pale malt, sharp blood orange, white grapefruit, and lemon/lime citrus zest, equal to the task musky stone fruit, a still subtle but you know it's there chili heat, thankfully understated musty and earthy Brett funk, and more weak white wine-like barrel woodiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back after its opening frothy-assed gambit, the body a decent medium weight, and sort of smooth, I suppose, that is if your cognitive dissonance meter is working as it should be in cases like this. It finishes off-dry, the malt and big fruity essences having a minor slap fight with the lingering chili spiciness.
Overall, this is one pleasantly rendered chili beer, the multi-vectored fruitiness going a long way in balancing out the heat, while the other sundry players look on in amazement. Surprisingly easy to drink, given everything that is going on (and once the pour settles the hell down). Worth checking out, if you like this sort of thing.
Mar 17, 2017This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and creamy bone-white head, and lots of rising effervescence that just keeps on adding to a spoon-necessitating experience. Eventually there is some random limestone arch lace left around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of sassy stone fruit (apricot and nectarine), blended domestic citrus rind, gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser cereal wheatiness, indistinct earthy chili pepper spice, a mildly funky yeastiness, and some tame vanilla-forward oaken barrel notes. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and bready pale malt, sharp blood orange, white grapefruit, and lemon/lime citrus zest, equal to the task musky stone fruit, a still subtle but you know it's there chili heat, thankfully understated musty and earthy Brett funk, and more weak white wine-like barrel woodiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back after its opening frothy-assed gambit, the body a decent medium weight, and sort of smooth, I suppose, that is if your cognitive dissonance meter is working as it should be in cases like this. It finishes off-dry, the malt and big fruity essences having a minor slap fight with the lingering chili spiciness.
Overall, this is one pleasantly rendered chili beer, the multi-vectored fruitiness going a long way in balancing out the heat, while the other sundry players look on in amazement. Surprisingly easy to drink, given everything that is going on (and once the pour settles the hell down). Worth checking out, if you like this sort of thing.
Reviewed by peensteen from Canada (ON)
4.01/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.01/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Pale blonde colour, ring of white head, no lace. Smell is fruity, oak and a white wine, lemony and a touch of acidity, chilli pepper is ever present but certainly shows restraint. Taste is acidic and tart with a chilli heat at first followed by a bit of a puckering sourness, dry oak and white wine, lemony with some heat in the aftertaste. Medium high carbonation, medium body dry. This was quite enjoyable, despite my reservations this certainly exceeded my personal expectations, never too much heat, certainly worth trying.
Sep 09, 2015
Fatali Four from Upright Brewing Company
Beer rating:
92 out of
100 with
140 ratings
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