#breaksidebrewery

We have some minor complaints.

Hey, Amanda. You did a great job today. We got our order really fast and all that. You looked a little busy, so I didn’t want to bother you. You probably had no time to chat, and I don’t like confrontation – or conversation for that matter. But I had a few notes on our meal tonight.

It’s not our first time at Breakside’s Slabtown brewpub. We’ve been before. But between the two times, we’ve had a pretty mediocre experience.

First of all, the pint of Hop Delivery Mechanism you served Sarah had quite a bit of diacetyl in it. I know, I know. It’s not your job to make the beer, or even pour it, but I think you need to tell someone the beer you’re serving is seriously, seriously flawed. It tastes like buttered popcorn. That’s fine flavor for a jelly bean, not a double IPA. I would’ve mentioned something, but as I said, I hate confrontation.

It’s not your fault, Amanda. It’s not your fault. 

The Bazooka Face was actually really really good. It’s hard to pull off a session strength IPA that is actually satisfying. It wasn’t super watery, and the hop flavor was real orangy, which I enjoyed. I thought it was cute that the menu said it tasted like sunny-D.

The food was good, if a little bland. I can, and do, cook better vegan food at home three nights a week – the other two night sare about on par with the food served here. 

Again, that’s not really your realm Amanda, but I had to say it. It’s a personal pet peeve of mine. There are at least five great bars in Portland serving amazing vegan pub grub. Go there and figure out how they do it. Not you Amanda, but someone, please.

It took a while to get my second beer, probably due to the afterwork crowd. You guys must get a lot of them huh?

Precious Snowflake was a nice double IPA. There was no butter in it for one, but it also had nice flavors, too. Pineapple and weeds are nice. Pine and dirt can be good. Heck even all those onions were cool.

I get it. This new brewpub is supposed to be all experimental and everything. It’s a hop lab. That’s why two-thirds of the taps are some variation on IPA. But last time we were here, in March, I got two different cloudy IPAs, Something Wicked and the Night Shift collab Shift Break, and I couldn’t tell them apart. 

Okay, you got me. I could tell them apart, but they were so similar it seemed like the experiment here was to test your patrons ability to tell the difference between a lemon and a grapefruit. Kinda boring.

It’s not your fault Amanda, but maybe you can get this message to your bosses?