Breakside Hello My Alien

Hello My Alien is a West Coast IPA hopped with Riwaka, brewed by Breakside Brewery and poured on its Portland area taps.

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Specs

Brewery Description

Hello My Alien IPA. West Coast IPA w/ Riwaka. tangerine, stonefruit, diesel

Punctuation lightly normalized.

Source: Breakside: NW Slabtown beer list

Tasting Notes

tangerine, stonefruit, diesel

Source: breakside.com

Ingredients

The only ingredient Breakside publishes is Riwaka, a New Zealand hop, named on the NW Slabtown beer list. No malt bill, yeast or other ingredients are given.

Hop Profile

Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for International-Style Pale Ale describes an easy-drinking, well-integrated pale ale with varied hop character (floral, herbal, fruity, tropical or pine), 4.4 to 6.6 percent ABV and 20 to 42 IBU. The 6.5% draft figure sits inside the ABV range; no IBU is published to compare.

Awards History

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

Brewery Context

Breakside Brewery & Taproom is in Milwaukie, OR.

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

Related

• Brewery: Breakside Brewery & Taproom
• Hop varieties: Riwaka

Links

• Beer page on brewery site
• Breakside Brewery
• Breakside: beers
• Breakside: 2026 January to June release calendar
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines

Gaps

• Not Found: IBU. Checked breakside.com, breakside.com, breakside.com, breakside.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, Catalog.beer search by beer and brewery name.
• Not Found: Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked breakside.com, breakside.com, breakside.com, breakside.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.

Research Notes

• Field pass 2026-10-13: The exact Untappd entry shows N/A IBU. Its 6.1% ABV differs from the retained brewery draft value of 6.5% and the brewery to-go value of 5.8% already recorded; no existing value was changed.
• The beer has no page of its own; it appears only on the NW Slabtown location beer list, which is used as the beer url.
• ABV conflict on the same brewery page: the draft list says 6.5%, the to-go growler and crowler listing says 5.8%. The draft figure is used in frontmatter.
• The brewery lists it as a West Coast IPA although it medaled in the International-Style Pale Ale category.
• Not found on the Breakside beers page, the 2026 January to June release calendar, or the Milwaukie, Dekum, Lake Oswego, Astoria, Beaverton and Vancouver beer lists.
• No 2026 medal announcement from the brewery was found; the home page mentions Oregon Beer Awards honors but not GABF 2026.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the Slabtown tap list gives three tasting words, Riwaka and 6.5% ABV.