As a brewpub that first opened in 2010, Breakside Brewery in Portland, OR is a local favorite, Soon after opening, Breakside quickly gained recognition for creating incredibly imaginative, experimental, and fla-vorful brews. A few years later, we outgrew our current space in NE Portland and introduced our brand to Milwaukie, OR by setting up a new brewery there. Today, as one of the leading Portland area breweries, our locations contain 30,60, and 210bbl tanks, barrel rooms for wild and non-wild/sour fermentations, a high-speed bottling line, and 24-tap tasting room.
Earning Brewery of the Year at the 2017 Oregon Beer Awards, Breakside Brewery in Portland, OR has long been recognized for its unique beers that have earned various other accolades including gold, silver and bronze medals at the 2017 Best of Craft Beer Awards. As one of the top rated Portland area breweries, Breakside deiced to open its third location in March 2017 in the Slabtown district of Northwest Portland. With three locations throughout the Portland area, each one has its own distinct atmosphere. Come visit the one nearest you for the ideal culinary and craft brew experience.
22 oz. bottle, pours a hazy golden orange with a tiny white head. Nose is super dank, full of fresh dank juicy hops, grapefruit zest, and pine - wow - what aromatics these are. Flavour brings out loads of fresh grapefruit zest, uber fresh piney hops, and some sharp zesty biscuity malt providing just enough backing. Extremely fresh, dank, juicy, dry and zest - everything I love about an IPA right here. Exceedingly high drinkability, with no residual sweetness. The pinnacle of Breakside's brews, from what I've had.
Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver Dark mahogany color with compact head. Roasted malt aroma and flavor, dry mouthfeel as promised, with a strong character of pot coffee; correct bitterness. Not bad, just not my style, and quite monodimensional.
Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver Hazy deep blond color with compact head. Nice aroma of hops, with light earthy character. Dry mouthfeel; good malt flavor, and mostly a good hop character, green, hop conses, hop oils, leading to a strong bitterness. The final is slightly metallic (expected). Very nice; easy drinkable.
Crisp golden coloured body with a dense, three centimetre tall just off-white head. Aroma of resinous, herbal and very grapefruity hops - nice and mouth-watering. Medium-bodied; Assertive grapefruit and herbal hop flavours throughout with an emphasis on resinous notes, a solid and pungent malt backbone and a very piney character at the end with hints of sugars - very nice and ridiculously well-balanced for a PNW IPA. Aftertaste is nice and enjoyable with more of a hop flavour than anything else (naturally) and a strong alcohol bite with a grassy and herbal flavour at the very end. Overall, one of the best IPAs I’ve had from Portland and one well worth getting over and over again - and I would, if I lived here! I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased a few minutes ago at Whole Foods in Portland (Pearl), Oregon on 06-December-2013 for US$4.99 sampled in my hotel room here in Portland on 06-December-2013.
On tap at Brouwer's Cafe for Big Wood 2013, pours an opaque dark amber mahogany with a small beige head. Nose is full of rye barrels, resinous hops and bready caramel malts. Flavour is exactly the same, with loads of rye notes, resinous hops, and bready caramel. Such a weird beer to barrel age, but it somehow works well. Lots of depth and highly drinkable. Solid stuff.
22 oz. bottle, pours a deep dark brown / black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out loads of bourbon, oak, some chocolate and a little leather. Flavour is similarly complex, with loads of bourbon, wood, vanilla, a little cocoa and leather. The barrels are used to such perfection here. The bourbon and oak are pretty front and centre. An awesome replication of Adam from the Wood.
Bomber from Whole Foods. Pours a clear copper color with a medium white head. A light sweet fruity nose, some biscuit and tangerine. Super clean flavor with oranges, big grapefruit, pretty hefty but not distracting bitterness, some light resinous sweetness. But not super sweet. A big balance with earthy biscuit malts, some marmalade. Very nice.
On tap at Breakside. What an oddity. Pours a dark copper color with a small white head. The aroma is big sweet beets, yes beets and some toffee. The flavor is dominated similarly by beets, sweet copper blood flavors, iron, mince pie comes to mind for some reason. Quite drinkable, pretty good.
On tap at Breakside. Pours a clear dark copper color with a medium white head. The aroma is light smoke, some pils malt. The flavor is a great unique Oktoberfest: honey sweet malts, light smoke, some Pils malt, crisp hop additions, leaves. Solid.