 Thanks for joining me for this episode of brutal battle beer break today. I'm going to go back to my wheelhouse I'm going back to IPA's. I've done a few episodes with without IPA's Some different stuff, which is fun, but I like to get back to my IPA's from time to time The one we have today is actually from a brewery called break side brewery The interesting thing is they say that they are out of Portland, Oregon But then in the fine print it says brewed and bottled by break side brewery in Milwaukee, Oregon Yes, there is a Milwaukee, Oregon spelled differently than the other Milwaukee, Wisconsin Um, but this is just their straight up IPA. It's actually a great american beer festival gold medal winner I'm told from 2014. Uh, this bottle was given to me by emily bowing. So thank you very much, emily She brought it out from Oregon. Um, she is a workhorse for me So I really appreciate that she brings beer out to me anytime she's coming. She says, hey You know send me a list of what you're looking for. Uh, a lot of times I just kind of trust her and I say, you know Here are a few things I might be looking for but anything additional just I trust you and she has not missed yet She hasn't had a single one that I've been like there. So thank you, emily So this is the uh, break side IPA. Oh, there's a little, you know folding chair Nothing real crazy interesting about the label, but that's not really what matters It's all about the flavor And the aroma and the aroma. There's no alcohol by volume on the bottle. Um, which whatever. I don't really care about that Um, assuming since it's an IPA it's probably somewhere around seven-ish There you go. You can see the nice little folding chair. Anyway, uh, very clear, uh, obviously filtered It's got some nice decent, uh, big bulb head on the top. Uh, very Amber orange coloration to it Looks nice Let me get a Oh, whoo. Okay. Very west coast IPA type smell to it It smells dank. It smells really dank It's got such like deep rich grapefruit um notes in it Uh, I'm gonna be honest of like all the IPAs I've ever smelled this probably smells the most grape fruity It's in my opinion like it smells like the pink grapefruit that you get. So it's a little bit like acidic um Um, it actually kind of like tickles my nose a little bit with that kind of acidity note It smells great. It smells like straight-up grapefruit honestly and like that dank note to go with it Other than that, I mean that's pretty much all there is but that smells amazing to me whoa Okay, lots of grapefruit up front Gives way to like a you know grapefruit rind type flavor at the end because of the bittering on it Uh, honestly though, it's a little bit lighter in body than I expected it to be based on the smell because of that like dankness Usually to me kind of translate to you know more of like a medium type body I'd say this is actually a pretty light body for an IPA But that tastes very good and this is still pretty cold So I'm assuming that as it continues to warm up that Grapefruit flavor is going to become more and more vibrant and then that The bittering on the end is going to go down a little bit more in comparison But the bittering right at this point is not too much. It's very awesome. It's kind of like if you just take um You take a bite of like A wedge of grapefruit and you get the grapefruit first But then you bite a little bit of the actual rind off So you're tasting that at the end but very nice very well crafted. I see why this was a You know metal winner at the great american beer festival. So break side brewery awesome stuff Thank you so much. Emily. Uh anyone out there who can get their hands on this beer highly recommended if you're an IPA fan As far as grapefruit goes it really doesn't get much better than this Thanks everyone for checking this episode out and check out the next one