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.
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cloudy amber with large white head. Aroma is grass, leaves, some tropic fruits, slightly phenolic. Taste is bitter malt and fruity hoppy something. Almost smooth, only a bit mealy on the tongue, full bodied. Very nice.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2017
at 12:49
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Slightly hazy, thick rocky head, this is mostly chewy, with a mellow old school hop, chill..they aren’t nailing the malts much but I do like the hop taste.
Tried
on 10 Feb 2017
at 00:39
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Jhanjay, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out piney hops and toasted biscuity malt. Flavour is quite dry, with piney hops, and dry toasted biscuity malt. Very dry and toasted on the finish. Very nicely made pale.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jan 2017
at 12:14
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can. Hazy golden-amber color with nice creamy eggshelly head. Aroma is dank, floral, earthy hops, citrus and peach, resinous, tropical fruits, some toasted malts. Taste is toasted malts, dank, resinous, spicy, earthy, again peach and floral hops. Oily mouthfeel. These people really show a supreme knowledge of how to use their fresh hops. Again: supremely drinkable, and very nicely inserted spicy-earthy "old world" hop flavours.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jan 2017
at 02:14
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can, thanks luttonm. Upon opening the can, an aroma of floral-earthy fresh hops sprays the room, within seconds, and up to several feet away - incredible. Pours hazy yellow-to-golden color with nice white head. Aroma is floral-earthy pure hops, grapefruits. Taste is floral-earthy, spicy, incredibly nicely hopped, pale malts. Medium carbonation with a slightly silky mouthfeel. An amazing floral-earthy Pale Ale. Something for locals, and I am grateful I could try it in such a great condition. Totally underrated (albeit more old-worldy than fancy and aroma-hoppy), and immensely drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jan 2017
at 01:48
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Back log On tap at the tap station west Seattle. Pours out a golden copper topped with a white head. Nose is dank hops some soft tropical fruit notes aswell and a nice caramel sweetness. Taste is more of the nice tropical fruits citrus pineapple some caramel sweet malts and a little bread.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jan 2017
at 14:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can. dank tropical hop nose, citrus, pine. Cloudy golden color. Nice biscuity malts with very dank and tropical and piny hops. Nice.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jan 2017
at 19:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Elizabeth Station. Pours a clear pale golden with a white head. Aroma is topical fruits, citruses. Taste is piney bitterness. Same aftertaste. Good.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Dec 2016
at 23:14
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
12oz can, courtesy of riversideAK, pours with a near clear gold body that supports a white head of foam. The modest aroma offers up grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple and a mild malt sensation. The taste delivers a pleasing blend of juicy and bitter hops. I get bitter grapefruit and tangy pineapple bleeding into grapefruit and tangerine like hop juicy bitterness. The bitterness grows deeper into the sipping experience but remains restrained and cohesive. This is a real nice drinking IIPA that borders on being dangerously so.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Dec 2016
at 10:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
It’s a clear gold with a giant head of foam. Dank grassy resinous pine hop bouquet. Light bodied, zesty carbonation with a dry finish. Clean fresh hoppy flavor, citrus, prickly pear, dank pine.
Tried
on 02 Dec 2016
at 09:17