Bale Breaker Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
Yakima,
Washington,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 2013
Contact
Subsidiaries
Description
With a 30-barrel brewhouse at a 27,000 square foot facility, Bale Breaker crafts eight year-round canned beers, including the widely celebrated Topcutter IPA, and a diverse offering of seasonal beers in cans and on draft. They have two taprooms: one onsite at the Yakima brewery; and another in Seattle’s Ballard Brewing District. Bale Breaker beer can be found in retailers and bottleshops throughout Washington, Oregon, and Idaho and limited distribution in Colorado.
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Bale Breaker - Yakima, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma is fairly laid back, with soft dank hops and crisp biscuity malt. Flavour is much more assertive and dank, with big pot-like hops, pine, and biscuity malt. Oily, piney, dank finish. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jun 2023
at 21:10
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Bale Breaker - Yakima, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma has some gentle pot-like hoppy dankness with a soft biscuity malt base. Flavour is wonderfully piney and dank, with a lovely pot-like hop character upfront and dominating, backed by a soft biscuity malt base. Love these dank, piney blonde IPAs. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jun 2023
at 20:44
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Bale Breaker - Yakima, pours a clear golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out a nice restrained piney hop character and crisp biscuity malt base. Flavour is bright and clean, with plenty of biscuity malt as the base, and then shifting to very smooth, fresh piney hops upfront. What a nice blonde: the hops really carry this. Surprisingly excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jun 2023
at 20:37
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 oz can poured on the eve of visiting the Yakima valley for the first time in forever, it seems. Last can of a 4 pack that was very much enjoyed. Solid series from the beginning, one that I've had a version on tap at home before, and it never disappoints. I usually bore of these hoppy series that the numbers seem endless, but for this series, they can make as many as it takes. Moderately cloudy and bright golden appearance. Tropial aroma, with juicy pineapple and melon hints, under a slightly cool pine. Slight bite up front, and a little piney to start, but finishes on that juicy tropical and citrus character. Well executed with the hop bill on number 11 here. Already looking forward to a 4 pack of number 12.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jun 2023
at 04:18
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
(Can) hazy, bright yellow color with a medium tall, cream colored head; aroma of vanilla, tropical fruit; rich, balanced flavor with a long, medium bitter finish
Tried
from Can
on 15 Apr 2023
at 05:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
14/III/23 - 1Pt. can from a trade, shared @ ElManana’s place, BB: n/a, canned: XI/23/22, lot: 22-273HG (2023-230) Thanks to Zion for the trade!
Clear orange blond beer, big creamy irregular off-white, head, stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: tropical fruits, juicy, mango, sweet impression, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter from the start, resinous hops, a bit dank, some tropical fruits, almost chemical, very bitter. Aftertaste: some citrus, some tropical fruits, juicy, chemical, very bitter, resinous, dank, some onions, decent but not the best.
Clear orange blond beer, big creamy irregular off-white, head, stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: tropical fruits, juicy, mango, sweet impression, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter from the start, resinous hops, a bit dank, some tropical fruits, almost chemical, very bitter. Aftertaste: some citrus, some tropical fruits, juicy, chemical, very bitter, resinous, dank, some onions, decent but not the best.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Mar 2023
at 20:00
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can. Pours a golden hue with a medium white head. A big dank and tropical nose. Sweet resin, crisp, pretty malty. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Mar 2023
at 08:03
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Bale Breaker - Ballard, pours a clear pale copper with a small beige head. Aroma brings out earthy, resinous hops with a muffled graininess in back. Flavour has resinous hop oils, some pine, and sweet biscuity malt. Oily, gently dank finish. Not the most invigorating hop expression, but there's low residual sweetness and a nice lupulin finish. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Feb 2023
at 17:02
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Bale Breaker - Ballard, pours / clear pale copper golden with a small white head. Aroma is dry and earthy, with piney hops, some dankness, and muddled earthiness. Flavour has a rather earthy hop character, with muddled pine and a hint of dank. Not the best hop character but it's better than 95% of hazies. Okay.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Feb 2023
at 16:59
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz can from Boise Co-op. Clear golden pour with a thin, sturdy white head. Grainy aroma with citrusy accents, orange. Taste is sweet, grainy, malty with light citrus zest at the finish. Not as hoppy as I would have guessed.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Feb 2023
at 03:04