Our story.
Independent. Bloomington-rooted. Brewing what moves us since 1998.
Upland embodies what Bloomington stands for — a stubbornly independent town surrounded by limestone hills, a town where the line between artist, athlete, and academic blurs over a good beer.
We started in 1998 in a single brewpub on the west side of town. One mash tun. A beat-up kettle. A recipe for a Hoosier-honest pale ale and a conviction that Indiana deserved beer made by people who actually live here.
Twenty-five-plus years later, we run eight taprooms across the state, a production brewery, and The Wood Shop — a dedicated facility for our internationally distributed wood-aged sour program. We're still independent. Still in Bloomington. Still pouring for the people who pour for us.
We chose the name Upland for the unglaciated southern third of Indiana — the part of the state the last ice age missed, full of caves, ridges, and limestone the rest of the Midwest doesn't have. It's where we grew up and where we built this thing. The beer tastes like it.