Upright’s Going Gris, Made With Experimental Winery Minimus, is the White Wine of Fruit Beers

It's beautifully aromatic with hints of flower petal and stone fruit, and downright elegant

(Sofie Murray)
By Matthew Korfhage

When Upright's Alex Ganum agreed to make a collaboration beer for Bailey's Taproom's 10th anniversary, beer buyer Bill Murnighan knew what had to happen: Ganum had to meet Chad Stock of experimental winery Minimus. "They're pretty much the wine version of Upright," Murnighan told us.
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Ganum visited, and was “blown away” by the wines. Stock introduced him to both acacia-wood barrels, which impart a sort of fruity note to beer, and a very rare savagnin rose grape that Ganum thought would mix beautifully with a one-off rose-petal beer.
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>And so he fermented 100 pounds of grape with orchard yeast, blended with a mix of saison and rose beer, and aged it in acacia for about six months. It's the white wine of fruit beers—lightly bitter-sour, beautifully aromatic with hints of flower petal and stone fruit, and downright elegant. And even at $15 a bottle, there's already almost none of it left. Get some.

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