Breakside Brewery Releases New Year-Round West Coast IPA

Breakside Brewery, one of Portland's most award-winning breweries, today announced the release of its newest year-round beer, Breakside West Coast IPA, now available in 12oz 6-pack cans and on draft at all Breakside locations and throughout the brewery’s distribution channels.

Over the past 15 years, the West Coast IPA style has evolved away from aggressive bitterness and a loud presentation to be drier, lighter, more aroma-focused, and refined in bitterness. Breakside's new release not only embraces that shift, it downplays the dank side of hops and is built around the latest in hop science and technology that maximizes tropical and stonefruit hop aroma and flavor while keeping bitterness clean.

“The new IPAs today should be so easily delicious and gloriously fresh tasting that they wow you with the full potential of hops,” said Ben Edmunds, Breakside's founding brewmaster and recipient of the Brewers Association's 2023 Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation in Brewing. “Our new Breakside West Coast IPA is not the IPA that got your parents into craft beer, but it might be the one that makes you reconsider everything you think about IPA.”

The 6.5% ABV beer is built with three hops: Mosaic for sweet citrus and ripe tropical fruit, Oregon-grown Strata for soft fruity notes and a clean finish, and Krush for overripe stonefruit and fruit cocktail depth. The malt bill leans on crushed and flaked wheat in addition to Pilsner malt. This beer is also the first to debut Breakside's refreshed 12oz can design, which features Breakside prominently up front and will roll out across the core lineup this fall.

About Breakside Brewery

Founded in 2010 as a small three-barrel brewpub on NE Dekum in Portland, Breakside has grown into one of the most decorated breweries in the country, with 21 World Beer Cup medals, 31 Great American Beer Festival medals, 100 Oregon Beer Awards medals, and Oregon Brewery of the Year honors multiple times. Breakside is worker-owned and operates eight locations across Oregon and Washington, including taprooms in Portland, Milwaukie, Lake Oswego, Astoria, Beaverton, Dundee, and Vancouver, WA.