Learn about specialty brewing with local fruits at Upland’s Woodshop

Earth Eats: Real Food, Green Living

“We use wood so that we give the various microorganisms sort of a place to colonize and live from batch to batch. And over time those colonies and those species that have taken hold will change, they’ll drift and so, you’ll develop a unique character to each tank that’s really interesting.”

This week on the show we dive head first into a giant oak barrel full of aging beer.

Okay, well, not literally.

Producer Toby Foster pays a visit to The Woodshop, that’s Upland Brewing Company’s sour beer facility. Now’s your chance to learn what’s special about this type of beer and why they needed to construct a separate building to craft it.