Breakside Lunch Break ISA

Lunch Break is Breakside Brewery's hop-forward session ale, first brewed in 2013 and sold as an India Session Ale at its Milwaukie taproom.

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Brewery Description

Our hop forward session beer, built for enjoying any time of day. You'll find this brew to be full of juicy, classic hop flavor with just enough malt backbone to keep things in balance. We reserve some of our favorite hops, Simcoe, Cascade and Centennial, to use in this beer, which gives the aroma a heady mix of orange marmalade, grapefruit, and resin.

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Source: Breakside: Lunch Break

Tasting Notes

full of juicy, classic hop flavor with just enough malt backbone to keep things in balance ... the aroma a heady mix of orange marmalade, grapefruit, and resin. FLAVOR PROFILE grapefruit, lemongrass, fruity

Source: breakside.com

Ingredients

The archived beer page lists Amarillo, Cascade, Galaxy, Rakau and Simcoe hops over a Two Row, Munich and Light Crystal malt bill. Its prose names Simcoe, Cascade and Centennial, so Centennial appears in the description but not in the hop list. No yeast is named.

Hop Profile

Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for International-Style Pale Ale calls for an easy-drinking, well-integrated ale with varied hop character, 4.4 to 6.6 percent ABV and 20 to 42 IBU. Every published ABV (4.7%, 5.6%, 5.7%) and the 31 IBU fall inside those ranges.

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: Amarillo, Cascade, Galaxy, Rakau, Simcoe
• Hop farms that grow these varieties: grown by Goschie Farms, grown by B&D Farms, grown by Coleman Agriculture, grown by Perrault Farms

Each farm listed as growing a variety grows that variety according to the hop farm data; the brewery has not said it bought hops from that farm.

Links

• Beer page on brewery site
• Breakside Brewery
• Breakside: Milwaukie beer list
• Breakside: NW Slabtown beer list
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines

Gaps

• Not Found: Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked breakside.com, breakside.com, breakside.com, breakside.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.

Research Notes

• ABV conflict across brewery pages: archived beer page 4.7%, Milwaukie taproom list 5.7%, NW Slabtown list 5.6%. The archived page is the only one with a full spec sheet, so its 4.7% and 31 IBU are used in frontmatter; the current recipe may differ.
• Hop conflict: the description names Centennial, the hop list does not.
• The beer page lists earlier honors in the same category, including a 2016 GABF bronze for International-Style Pale Ale.
• No 2026 medal announcement from the brewery was found.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewery page gives tasting words and a flavor profile; its hop list (Amarillo, Cascade, Galaxy, Rakau, Simcoe) is already on file.