Get your friends, and let’s party! Breakside turns 15 this month, and to celebrate, we ve made a beer with our friends at Boneyard, who, get this, also opened their brewery 15 years ago in May of 2010. Literally within days of each other!
Remember May 2010? Oh, the days of gentility and peak Portland. Instagram wouldn’t debut for another 5 months. There were no iPads, delivery drones, smartwatches, Siri, or social media influencers. There were no smoothie sours, pastry beers, or hazy IPAs either.
Simpler times, simpler times.
But here we are, and we wouldn’t trade anything for the fun and friendships that we’ve built in the beer community in the last decade and a half. No time for melancholy. No winding back the clock:
Breakside and Boneyard both, 15 years later, surviving, thriving, and celebrating.
To commemorate this milestone, we drummed up a new take on west coast IPA, inspired by the light body and production methods behind mass-market corn lagers. We’ve made a beer as light and summery as can be, touched it up with lime zest, and bombed it with some of our favorite citrus-forward hops. It’s a sunny beer, forward-looking, boundary-pushing and enjoyable all at once– just what Oregonians and beer lovers further afield have come to embrace and love about our two brands.
Cheers to us at Breakside; cheers to Tony and the Boneyard crew; cheers to all of you who have supported us both! Here’s to the next 15 years!