Bale Breaker Brewing Company

Do YOU know what’s been happening in our Yakima Valley? It’s been HOT and the hops have been GROWING - roughly 6 inches PER DAY! Before we know it, the bottomcutters and topcutters will be out in these fields harvesting hops for us to brew up some beers!

Get on out here to the Wild *East* (😉) for our Honky-Tonk Hoedown! YEEHAW!

Hoedown starts at 5pm but we’ve got LOTS goin’ on ALL DAY! 🤠

• 3 NEW YOXI flavors
• YOXI Pops
• YOXI Slushies
• 12pm-8pm
• 1pm-8pm
• 12-9pm
• 6-9pm

Your food menu tomorrow: a mouthwatering plate of BBQ from or Birria from so good it will make you say “YEEHAW”. How will you ever choose? Good thing you don’t have to! Come on out for lunch AND dinner - will be here serving at12pm when our doors open, and will be ready to serve at 1pm-8pm or sold out! See you here 😊

THIS FRIDAY at our Honky-Tonk Hoedown will be BACK IN THE HOUSE doing LIVE flash tattoos from 12 - 9pm! There are over 500+ flash tattoo designs to choose from, but here is a sheet of OUR Honky-Tonk favorites 🤠
 
Pre-book your tattoo time slot NOW by messaging directly. $40-$60 each ($10 deposit to pre-book). The first 30 minutes of each hour are reserved for pre-bookings but the last 30 minutes of each hour are open to walk ups! staff will be taking a break from 4-5pm. Must be 18+ years old to get a tattoo.

Come on out for Trivia Night TONIGHT! Grab your team (1-8 people) and come get some tacos and brews for dinner on our patio. Your team could win a $50 taproom gift card and if you keep coming back and racking up points each month and win prizes when your team hits 100 total points AND 200 total points! Plus, the team with the most cumulative points at the LAST trivia of the year on December 17th will win the ULTIMATE grand prize package!!!

Trivia occurs every 3rd Tuesday of the month and will be held outside in our beautiful beer garden during the summer months. Teams of 1-8 people. Check in starts at 6pm, and trivia begins at 6:30pm.

Our Honky-Tonk Hoedown is only 4 days away, YEEHAW! Let’s talk about what’s really important: THE DRINKS! We’ll have 3 BRAND NEW YOXI FLAVORS on tap: Passionfruit Orange Guava (POG), Mixed Berry and Peach Passionfruit. PLUS, we’ve whipped up 300 YOXI Pops: Peach Mango, Strawberry Lemonade, and Piña Colada! Clear your Friday schedule and get to our patio for the Hoedown of the summer! Doors open at 12pm, party starts at 5pm - choose your own adventure 😏

This ain’t Texas, this is YAKIMA. We’re having a Honky-Tonk Hoedown at our Yakima taproom NEXT FRIDAY, July 19th from 5-9pm! Get your dancin’ boots ready - will be here teaching folks how to line dance. Come hungry and ready to eat and . Come THIRSTY we’re releasing 3 BRAND NEW YOXI flavors AND we’ll have YOXI pops! PLUS, will be back in the house doing flash tats again! YEEHAW - Let’s boot, scoot and boogie! 🤠

Today’s the day! The 2024 release of Just Peachy, a peach wheat beer made in collaboration with the Younker family and Children’s Village is releasing on tap in our Yakima taproom. Inspired by the TRI21 Project, this beer is made to raise awareness for individuals with Down syndrome and to raise money for Children’s Village! 
 
$1 per pint sold of Just Peachy (the entire time it’s on tap) will be donated to Children’s Village, and Just Peachy merchandise will be available for sale! We’ll also have here serving up delicious eats, ANDDD will be here with their delicious (and cold) ice cream sandwiches.

We know it’s very hot here in Yakima so we will have this event set up inside with great AC - and westsiders, if you’d like to also support this great cause, Just Peachy will be making its way to our taproom later this week! 🍻

HEY SEATTLE SOUNDERS FANS! We’re proud to announce that we’re part of the NEW Craft Beer Alliance, and we’re EXTRA STOKED to announce that we’re selling Topcutter IPA in the stadium in tallboy 16oz cans! Tomorrow is an away game so we’re hosting an official watch party starting at 7pm - with the official Sounders mascot, Sammy the Sounder, in the building! 
 
Come by and grab a beer or a YOXI Slushie to beat this heat and enter our RAD raffle for a chance to win two tickets to a Sounders home game! PLUS folks in Sounders gear will get 10% off their Bale Breaker products (Ballard taproom only, not to-go items)! ⚽️🎉🍻

We’re open and ready to keep the party going! YOXI slushies are flowing at both taprooms - peach mango in Yakima and raspberry lime in Ballard. Perfect way to beat this heat 🥵🍹

Happy 4th of July 🇺🇸 Friendly reminder that our Yakima taproom is CLOSED today - back at it again tomorrow with our normal hours!

is open today from 12-6pm!

Join us one week from today (Tuesday, 7/9) for the 2024 release of Just Peachy, a peach wheat beer made in collaboration with the Younker family and Children’s Village. Inspired by the TRI21 Project, this beer is made to raise awareness for individuals with Down syndrome and to raise money for Children’s Village!

$1 per pint sold of Just Peachy will be donated to Children’s Village, and Just Peachy merchandise will be available for sale! We’ll also have here serving up delicious eats, ANDDD will keep everyone cool with their tasty ice cream sandwiches. A good time for a great cause!

Bale Breaker Brewing Debuts La Mas Buena Mexican Lager | BREWPUBLIC.com The Mexican inspired lager trend seems to see no end in the beer industry. Sales of Modelo and other Mexican lagers continue to grow here in the U.S. so it

POV: YOU JUST FOUND OUR BEER IN COLORADO!

Summer in the Rockies is already a dream, but it just got better: our beers are now available for purchase for a limited time only at select locations in Colorado, while supplies last! Colorado has a rad craft beer scene already, so we know we’re in good company. But what do we have to offer that Coloradans can’t get already? Our beer comes straight from our hop farm - we’re the only brewery located smack dab in the middle of a hop farm. In fact, a lot of these Colorado breweries that you know and love use OUR hops in their beers! We’re as fresh off the farm as it can get - and trust us, as 4th generation hop farmers, we know how to use these hops pretty dang well. It’s in our DNA!

Find our beer near you: https://balebreaker.com/blog/bale-breaker-heads-to-the-rockys/

Introducing La Mas Buena Mexican Lager - Releasing Wednesday, July 3rd at both taprooms!
 
A longtime taproom favorite, La Mas Buena was named as a nod to the many local Spanish-speaking customers at our Yakima taproom repeatedly asking for “la mas buena?” at the bar. Translation: “The best one.” Rising to the occasion, we decided to create an authentic, crisp, easy-drinking Mexican Lager that is made for enjoying in the sunshine. Brewed as a true Mexican Lager with flaked corn and Pilsner malt, and clocking in at just 5% ABV. It’s crisp and crushable - making it the perfect beer for any summer occasion! 
 
La Mas Buena will be available on draft and in 16oz 4-packs at both taprooms on Wednesday, July 3rd (just in time for the holiday weekend!), and will receive full distribution throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho that same week.

Looks like the weather is FINALLY looking up 😉

This SATURDAY, 6/22 from 12-5pm, we’re kicking off the Yakima Humane Society’s annual Hops for Hounds fundraiser with a fun-filled, dog-focused afternoon at our Yakima taproom!

We’ll be releasing a brand new beer, Dog Days IPA, and donating $1 per pint sold to . We will also have themselves out here hosting an adoption event - PLUS we’ll have all sorts of ways to pamper your pooch (dog massages, nail trimming, and pet accessories galore!), PLENTY of dog treats and pup cups to go around, and even a dog costume contest at 4pm! We can’t wait to see all of our furry friends for a paw-some Saturday! 🐶🍻

Hey Seattle, we want to celebrate your doggos too! Come to our Ballard taproom for the same event the following weekend on Saturday, 6/29!

Another year of Ales for ALS is in the books and we could not be more grateful for all the love and support this community continues to show us. Thank you. Now come bring your Dad back to our patio for a beer or a Piña Colada YOXI Slushie - you all deserve one!

Ales for ALS 2024 is LIVE! Come on out and drink some brews for a GREAT cause! $1 of ANY pint served today will be donated to and their efforts to find treatments, and ultimately a cure, for ALS. Together we’re making progress, pint by pint! 🍻💚

Raise your hand if you’re pumped to try Bubba’s Brew IPA and Scotty’s Hoppy Lager at Ales for ALS tomorrow! Reminder that $1 per pint of ANY beer poured tomorrow will be donated to , and $1 from Bubba’s Brew IPA and Scotty’s Hoppy Lager will be donated as long as they’re on tap. We can’t wait to see you all out here tomorrow, cheersing some beers for a GREAT cause! 🍻

If you can’t make it out on Saturday but still want to support, please go to https://www.als.net/donate/ to donate now :)

Ales for ALS was inspired by Scott “Bubba” Hanses - Bale Breaker co-owners Meghann and Smitty’s beloved uncle - after he was tragically diagnosed with ALS. Founded in 2013 right here on our family’s hop farm, Ales for ALS has raised over $7 million for ALS Therapy Development Institute to research treatments and a cure for ALS. Ales for ALS is more than a one-day event: every year, Loftus Ranches & Yakima Chief Hops donate a unique blend of primarily experimental hops to breweries across the nation, with the ask being a donation to ALS TDI of at least $1 per pint brewed.

Ales For ALS is extremely near and dear to our hearts - we lost Bubba in 2020 after his long battle with ALS. This is why the two Ales for ALS beers we’re releasing this year are named Bubba’s Brew and Scotty’s Hoppy Lager - we hope you raise a pint in his honor.

$1 per pint of EVERY beer poured Saturday will be donated to ALS-TDI. We are so excited to see everyone out here on Saturday!

If you can’t make it out on Saturday but still want to support, please go to https://www.als.net/donate/ or follow the link in our bio to donate now. Together, we’re making progress, pint by pint.

The goal of our Ales for ALS event: Do good while having a damn good time! We’ve got a rad lineup of music for you to move and groove to on Saturday: 🕺🏽🎶💃🏽

🎧 12-3pm: DJ Dom
🎤 4-6pm: Amanda Simmons
🎸 6:30-8:30pm: Kate Dinsmore Band

Come ready to drink AND eat on our Yakima taproom lawn at Saturday’s Ales for ALS! We’ll have , , .and.co, , and out here serving up plenty of DELICIOUS foods! We can’t wait to see you all out here getting down on all these eats and cheersing some great beers for a GREAT cause! 🥳

GET HYPED! Our biggest event of the year - Ales for ALS - is THIS SATURDAY! We’ll have SIX food trucks on site, live music from 4-8:30pm, TWO different Ales for ALS brews this year (Bubba’s Brew IPA + Scotty’s Hoppy Lager), and $1 per pint of ANY BEER poured on Saturday will be donated to and their efforts to find treatments, and ultimately a cure, for ALS. This event is FREE to attend and all-ages, so be sure to come out THIS SATURDAY for the event of the summer!

Lady Sparkle Haze, our annual Pride beer, is tapping TODAY in Yakima and FRIDAY in Ballard! This Hazy IPA was a collaboration with our friends at Yakima Pride - $1 per pint will be donated to their organization. June is Pride Month, and this month and EVERY month, we stand in solidarity with our friends, neighbors and colleagues who are forging their own paths around who to love and how to live with joy and integrity. We hope you’ll join us in raising a pint to love! 🏳️‍🌈

Our memories are about as blurry as these photos, which tells you all you need to know about how much fun we had this past weekend at the Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Festival! It was an honor to be invited and spend time with some of the top brewers in the world. The thing we all have in common? We all like to drink beer and have a damn good time 🍻 Thank you for the invite! We brought the California vibes back home with our latest Frenz collab with and - be sure to try our newest FRENZ IPA available in both taprooms, online, and in select retailers NOW!

Throwback to Ales for ALS, circa 2015! We can’t believe we’re coming up on another year of celebrating great beer for a great cause, together. We (alongside and ) started Ales for ALS in 2013 to raise money to find treatments or a cure for ALS, after more of our family had recently been diagnosed with the disease. We had no idea it would become a huge event here in Yakima AND a worldwide fundraiser that spreads awareness and raises funds for ALS research. We could not be more grateful to be a part of it and could not be more stoked to do it all again NEXT SATURDAY, JUNE 15TH at our Yakima taproom 12-9pm 🍻

Join us for an IMPROMPTU party TOMORROW, at our Yakima taproom! We’re so sad to be saying goodbye to our VERY FIRST EMPLOYEE - Jon Mullen - but we’re absolutely stoked for him to start on his next big adventure and want to send him out in style. Jon was with us when we opened our doors in 2013 (check out our VERY fancy tap system for opening night). So tomorrow and TOMORROW ONLY - we’re taking it back to 2013 pricing. $5 pints all day tomorrow, come on by and raise a pint to Jon!

A few weeks ago we had two wonderful volunteers from the local nonprofit come out to brew a beer with us: Nothing But Flowers Hazy IPA. We’re releasing this beer on tap in Yakima TODAY and are excited to announce that $1 per pint sold of this beer will be donated to . 
 
At 4:30pm today Cowiche Canyon Conservancy will be leading a hike through their newest trails out in our local area on Konnowac Pass - visit their page for more details. Let’s raise a pint or two to protecting the local trails and habitat in our beautiful backyard! 🌾🍻

Hey Washingtonians! Spice up your ferry ride with an ice cold tallboy Topcutter IPA - available NOW on select Wa state ferries ⛴️ 🍻