Upland Enters DC Market; DCBeer Chats Sours and Sales With Them

Last month, I had the pleasure of chatting with Doug Dayhoff and Dusty Howe, president and sour beer brand manager, respectively, of Upland Brewing Company at one of their promotional events at RFD. Upland, founded in 1998, is one of Indiana’s oldest craft breweries and is named in honor of the Indiana Upland geographic phenomenon. They don’t really have mountains in the Midwest, so these folks get super jazzed about their hills.

What you should get jazzed about, assuming you’re not from Indiana or the immediate Midwest distribution zone, is that Upland Brewing’s beers are now available in the DC area via Madidus Importers. While Upland has a large portfolio of clean beers, most of what will be available in DC, both in bottle and keg formats, are beers from their sour program. The sour program at Upland started in 2006 and is older than most commercially available sour beer in America. That decade-plus of experience has led to some truly tasty libations. For those disheartened by Wick