Breakside Brewery new releases for August, 2020

Five Flavors – 10-Year Anniversary Series
Collaborator: Upright Brewing (Portland, OR)

Breakside Brewery’s fifth in-state collaboration for their 10th anniversary is one that is particularly special to them. For the last eleven years, Upright Brewing has set the standard for excellence in brewing in Portland with its focused, eclectic, and thoughtful beers. For this collaboration, Breakside Brewery looked to Upright’s early days and used the infamous French Saison yeast that typified their first beers. The beer Breakside Brewery made began its life as a relatively straightforward farmhouse ale using some rich and bready heirloom pale and pilsner malts from California’s Admiral Malting, and added magnolia berry in the whirlpool for some delicate floral, bitter, and sour notes. Then, the beer underwent a second fermentation using lager yeast, with the goal of mellowing the farmhouse yeast profile and tightening up the beer. The result is a hard-to-classify beer that’s refreshing like a pale lager and dry and rustic like a classic saison. This is the sort of idiosyncratic beer that both Ben and Alex love: quirky, technically challenging, highly drinkable, nuanced, and layered. Breakside Brewery hopes you agree!

ABV: 6.1%
IBU: 29
UPC: 859604004378

Whirligig Wheat 
 A Wheat Ale with Orange and Rhubarb
Collaborator: Pelican Brewing (Pacific City, OR)

Breakside Brewery’s sixth in-state collaboration for their 10th anniversary is with Pelican Brewing Co, a true institution of the Oregon Coast and one of the luminaries of the Oregon beer world. For the past quarter century, Pelican has been the standard bearer for excellence in Oregon beer. With more GABF and World Beer Cup wins than any other brewery in the state, they have produced refined, clean, eminently drinkable, delicious, and exactingly precise beer under the leadership of longtime brewmaster Darron Welch. Whirligig Wheat is the result of these efforts. It’s a satiating, unfiltered wheat beer that harkens to classic summer beers from great breweries worldwide. It is brewed with a fruity yeast strain and gets a jolt of bright citrusy tartness from a large addition of both orange and rhubarb late in fermentation. Breakside Brewery bets it’s been a blue moon since you’ve had a new wheat beer this delicious, nuanced, and refreshing!

ABV: 5.4%
IBU: 26

Breakside is excited to announced that they will be participating in the Black is Beautiful initiative.  The beer should be available in their pubs and taproom starting around August 15th.