Breakside IPA

Breakside’s most popular offering is this beautifully clear India Pale Ale featuring the unique character of Citra and Chinook hops. This light copper beer has huge citrus and tropical fruit aromas, with hints of perfume and pine. Flavors like apricot, guava, and orange hit the tongue accompanied by a mild evergreen note. There’s just enough caramel sweetness to balance the hop flavors, but this is really a showcase for the beautiful varieties of hops grown in the Northwest.
HOPS
Chinook, Citra, Columbus, Falconer’s Flight
MALT
Caramel 20, Caramel 40, Munich, Two Row

3.7

198 reviews

Milwaukie, United States

Community reviews

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3.7 On tap at Hops & Pie. Clear golden appearance with a lingering white head. Aroma of zesty hops, citrus fruit, mild pine and lightly toasted grain. Similar flavor, fresh and hoppy with moderate bitterness and a light malty sweetness. Medium body with ample carbonation and a light dry finish. Good.

4.3 Bottle. Cascading carbonation, rising through the rough, orange murk looks inviting. Firm 1/4" foam top. The aroma is downright seductive, hinting at strong acidity and mirth. It delivers. Chewy, rife with fig, blood fruits and oil. Good stuff. (#7195, 9/2018)

4.3 I agree with the other reviews. Very good IPA, goes down smooth with good citrus hop and good malt backbone that is not overly strong.

3.7 The pine taste is good, not overwhelming. Citrus taste is nice. It goes down easy with a nice dry finish. A great lighter IPA!

3.7 Draft at Beer Culture. Hazy orange, off white head. Some drippy lace. Fruity, pine, and caramel. Right on for this particular style of IPA, not an amazing version, just a good one.

3.6 Bottle Share: pours copper with a white head. Aroma is pine and citrus. Atandard west coast bitter IPA. Good.

3.6 Draft at Local Seattle. Poured very nicely with a bright hazy yellow color and thick white head. Very floral and bright nose. Big citrus flavor with a non-bitter hop taste. Very well done.

4.0 It pours dark golden with a slightly off white head. It has moderate retention to it. It is very clear. It has a strong, classic grapefruit and citrus aroma. There is a bit of resinous character with piney elements and a slight grainy background. The grapefruit, piney, resinous, and citrus flavors are strong and fairly well balanced. The is a bit of graininess well into the background with a slight bit of sweetness. It has a medium body with moderate carbonation and moderate bitterness in the finish. Overall, it is a very pleasant beer without some of the sharp edges that many unpolished IPA's have.

3.5 Hazy or crystal clear gold. Full body, flavorful, bright mouthfeel with abundant carbonation and heat, long aftertaste, clean finish . Bitter, very dry, crisp. Hoppy, greens. Refreshing, enjoyable but nothing special.

2.6 Big strong beer and body, strong malt notes play well against the resinous quality of the hops, not my favorite ipa

4.1 Cool bottle. Pours deep gold, medium rocky head. Heavier body with citrus and floral overtones. Malty finish.

3.1 Bottle from Village Beer Merchants. Caramel, flowery, citric. Not fresh anymore.

3.4 Bomber. Aroma is nothing but body odor. Pungent. Flavor is heavy b.o. and pine. A little citrus on the finish. High bitterness. Light body. So so.

3.8 Pine with citrus aroma. Amber, slightly hazy, with off-white creamy head. Lots of sticky, stringy lacing. Good malt body. Bitter pine hit on the initial taste, piney & citrus hops flavor throughout, with a quite bitter finish, lingering into an aftertaste. Excellent example of the bitter hops of a west coast IPA.

3.8 Draft at FotM 2-16-17

3.7 Pours up a slightly hazy golden amber color, With a nice looking frothy white head. Earthy-pine-citrus aromas. Taste has a lot of citrus like grapefruit. Clean drinking with a light sweet honey malt body. Long bittersweet finish.

3.7 Grapefruit bomb! Big juicy northwest hops deliver plenty of citrus and a bit of rind. Hazy amber pour with a thin white head. Nice fruity fade, bitter at first, but evens out quickly.

4.7 GRAPEFRUIT. The aroma and flavor. A beer worth traveling out of state for! During a blind taste test of 6 greater Portland area (bottled) ipas, it won hands down - with all six of us.

3.6 Aroma is pine, citrus, bread, pale malt, rind. Flavor is citrus, rind, earth, bready malt, pine. Med bodied, west coast IPA

3.2 Robe ambrée avec un col mousseux qui tend à disparaitre. Nez assez faible, note de noisette et d’agrume. En bouche le caractère malté oeuvre en amorce pour finir sur une douce amertume. Manque de note fruité à mon goût.

3.4 From tap. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is grapefruity, crisp hoppy. Crisp hoppy. Fruity. Peachy and solid grapefruity hoppy. Bitter and crisp hoppy finish.

3.8 Bottle from The Beer Mongers, Portland. Aroma is dank resinous hops, malt, caramel, pine resin, citrus, tropical fruit, grapefruit, orange. Flavour is moderate sweet with a bitter finish. Body is medium. Starts out malty and resinous but yields more of its dank hoppy and tropical character down the road. Very nice.

3.3 Amber colored with a white head. Aroma is grapefruit, citrus, pine, wood, caramel. Medium bodied, moderate bitterness.

3.8 Bomber. Tropical fruit hop aroma with notes of citrus and pine resiny hops. Pours clear amber colored with a huge off white head that has excellent retention and some lacing. Starts with bright tropical fruit hop flavors of pineapple as well as some grapefruit citrus hops. Finishes very dry with grapefruit acidity as well as some pine resiny hop bitterness. Solid IPA.

3.0 22oz Bottle Hazy orange light amber. Coarse light tan head. Mild piney hop aromas and flavors. Pretty tame all around. Drinkable and fairly bitter at the end.

3.4 On tap at the Pour Taproom in Greenville, SC. Pours with a clear, light golden body topped by a good off-white head that has very good retention. Feel: medium-light body with soft, medium carbonation. A tiny bit rough. Aroma: fruity and dank hops; tropical fruits. Flavor: Dank and fruity with hints of citrus, pineapple and guava. Overall: an fine IPA but a touch inferior to the less dank Dayslayer (Stone/Maine) that preceded it.

3.9 Cozy Inn, Kenmore. Good foam, dark gold, lightest haze. Gorgeous deep PNW pine hop IPA. Touch of resin and sweat. Rich, delicious, smooth body. Quintessential modern nw IPA. Balance of sorts. Delicious.

3.8 Bomber on the north shore. Orange golden, big hit of tropical fruit hops. Sticky and resinous hops, fruity and slightly piney. Very good

4.0 Poured from the bottle into a pint glass to drink. The beer had a pretty clear copper color with an amber hue and a large, creamy off-white head with good retention, and great cling and lacing. Its aroma featured strong pine and citrus hops, along with some spices and grass. The taste was quite good, and featured a delicious blend of citrus and pine bitterness. It had a very lively and fizzy mouthfeel with high carbonation and a bubbly feel throughout.