Press Release:
(Portland, OR) – Breakside Brewery is excited to announce that we’ve chosen to honor Oregon Craft Beer Month in good style at Breakside this year: to celebrate, we are getting back to our roots as a brewery known for making a wide-range of styles and will release nine different beers between July 1 and July 31. For any of those of you who are counting, this will put our total number of releases so far in 2013 at 63, so we are well on our way to hitting our goal of offering 100 different beers this year.
Released just before the 4th of July, ESB is cellarman Andrew Horne’s ode to English style pale ales and bitters. Made with flaked oats and Styrian Goldings hops, this beer is both easy drinking and complex. Also currently available is Rye Curious?, a San Francisco-style lager. This beer was one of the first recipes every brewed at Breakside, and we’ve resuscitated and updated it for the first time in several years. Both of these beers are extremely limited and are only available at our pub (820 NE Dekum) and taproom (5821 SE International Way).
Amarillo Wheat will debut this Sunday, July 14 as part of a Breakside Beer Brunch at The Hop & Vine. This hoppy wheat ale is made with copious amounts of sweet orange peel and citrusy American hops. The beer brunch promises to be a tasty event: Chef Sam Reed will prepare a number of special dishes to pair with the beer during this à la carte release from 10 AM until 2 PM, and Breakside’s brewers will be on hand to raffle off swag at noon. This beer will be available on draft throughout Oregon and SW Washington this month.
July will also see the release of Newport Summer Ale, an easy-drinking English golden ale; Passionfruit Sour, a low alcohol Berliner weisse conditioned on tropical fruit; and “Float” Summer Lager, brewed in the Dortmund-style for this year’s Oregon Brewers Fest. Both “Float” and the Passionfruit Sour will see wide distribution on draft to top Oregon bars and restaurants.
We are excited to announce a partnership with Portland Meadows, with whom we have bottled our Bavarian-style lager Lucky as Helles. The “official beer of summer racing” will be available beginning July 21 at the race track all summer long in 22 oz bottles, and it will also be found in select stores elsewhere as well starting next week.
Two experimental beers round out this month’s releases. Sour ApriHot is the latest of my (Ben’s) experimental, culinary-inspired creations. We’ve brewed an imperial sour apricot ale conditioned with horseradish. The high alcohol, acidity, fruit, and spice all balance each other beautifully in this unique, small batch beer. Finally, we have partnered with chef Johanna Ware of Smallwares to brew a Bière de Juillet, a summer version of a french bière de garde made with Persian lime and coriander. Smallwares (4605 NE Fremont) is one of Portland’s most exciting and innovative restaurants and was named Runner Up Restaurant of the Year by Willamette Week in 2012. Bière de Juillet will debut on July 18 during a Brewer’s Dinner at Smallwares, one of the top food-focused events of Oregon Craft Beer Month.
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Additional Amarillo Wheat info:
our summer ale full of Amarillo hops and sweet orange peel
the perfect breakfast beer for sunny weekends in the Northwest!
over the last three years, one of our most popular ‘pub beers’ has been our hoppy wheat ale–Amarillo Wheat. in this beer, you’ll get big notes of orange zest, grapefruit, marmalade, and a touch of dank ganja.
philosophically and spiritually, it falls somewhere between an American hefeweizen and an American pale ale. some might call it an “India session ale,” but we’re not those people.
this delicious beer made the jump to our production brewery with one new addition in 2013. we couldn’t resist the idea of adding copious amounts of sweet orange peel to our brewing water, so this beer comes naturally infused with a citrusy sweetness that helps elevate the hop character. the soft, luscious notes of wheat round out this beer and make it so easy drinking, that you might forget that it’s nearly 6% abv.
this isn’t a session beer–it’s a full on India Brunch Ale.
5.8% ABV 23 IBU
malts: 2 Row, American Wheat, Flaked Wheat, CaraVienne
hops: Amarillo, Summit, Cascade and: Sweet Orange Peel
suggested food pairings:
savory galettes and clafoutis, tomato-based dishes that typically clash with hoppy beers, sweet potato hash with braised meats, any type of benedict you can imagine, smoked lamb with mint chutney, herb-infused pancakes and classic French pains d’épices…and it does beautifully as a beerback to a Bloody Mary