Before the Break

Before the Break is a brown ale from Worthy Brewing, a brewery and pub in Bend, Oregon.

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Specs

Brewery Description

No description from the brewery was found; its beer page lists only six year-round beers and this one is not among them.

Tasting Notes

Not Found

Ingredients

The brewery's pub ordering menu names the hops recorded above. Other recipe fields were outside this targeted field pass.

Hop Profile

Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for English-Style Brown Ale calls for 4.2 to 6.0 percent ABV, 12 to 25 IBU and 12 to 45 SRM, with roast malt that may add a biscuit or toasted aroma. The published strength sits at the category's upper limit; bitterness remains unknown.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

Worthy Brewing is in Bend, OR. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Microbrewery.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website, Instagram, Untappd.

Related

• Brewery: Worthy Brewing Co.
• Hop varieties: East Kent Goldings, Hallertauer Mittelfruh, Hallertauer Tradition

Links

• Worthy: pub ordering menu
• Worthy Brewing
• Worthy Brewing: beer page
• New School Beer: Oregon at GABF 2026
• Bend Source: Oregon Beer Awards
• Bend Source: World Beer Cup results
• Untappd (hand-read citation): Worthy Brewing beer list
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines

Gaps

• Not Found: Description, Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked newschoolbeer.com, order.toasttab.com, untappd.com, worthybrewing.com, worthybrewing.com, bendsource.com, bendsource.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, earlier passes' brewery and web searches recorded in the research notes.
• Not Found: IBU. Checked newschoolbeer.com, order.toasttab.com, untappd.com, worthybrewing.com, worthybrewing.com, bendsource.com, bendsource.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, earlier passes' brewery and web searches recorded in the research notes, Catalog.beer search by beer and brewery name.

Research Notes

• The brewery site has no page for this beer; the Untappd tap list board it links to rendered empty.
• The Untappd beer list page fetched showed only three other beers, so no Untappd entry for this beer was read.
• Bend Source reports a World Beer Cup bronze for the beer but names the pale and brown categories together, so the exact category of that medal is not confirmed.
• New School Beer confirms the GABF silver in English-Style Brown Ale.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Second pass 2026-10-13: web searches for the beer on Untappd and with ABV and Bend terms returned no page naming this beer; Untappd search does not render without login. Nothing more was found.
• Field pass 2026-10-13: Worthy Brewing Main Pub's readable Toast ordering menu explicitly names Before the Break and supplies strength and three hop varieties. Mittelfruh is normalized to Mittelfrüh. The brewery-managed ordering menu is used as beer url because no dedicated brewery page was found; no IBU is published. A clean menu address replaces the initially discovered item address containing a long identifier.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: no new source was found.