After more than 3 years in the making, Breakside Brewery is finally planning to open phase one of their Beaverton beer garden, food trucks, and public house on Saturday, July 15th 2023. First reported by the New School in early 2021, Breakside Beaverton is one of our most anticipated new Oregon openings of 2023, and arguably the largest project Breakside has embarked upon since 2016.

Before 2021, Breakside had three locations; their original NE Portland Woodlawn brewpub founded in 2010, the production facility that fueled their success and expansion over the last decade plus in Milwaukie, and their innovative hop lab brewpub in Slabtown in NE Portland. Facing the challenges of the pandemic and coupled with wholesale draft beer sales fall off a cliff and the public’s demand for locality and cans, Breakside unveiled plans for three new locations: Lake Oswego, The Breaksider on SE 82nd Ave. and a Beaverton beer garden. No one foresaw the Breakside Beaverton beer garden and food truck pod becoming the years-long odyssey to opening that has already seen a new Astoria location open up, and the first location in the expansion open and close. But in that time it that time the Beaverton expansion has inspired it’s own fervent fandom of outer westside beer fans clamoring for a location to call their own.

“I think when people get the opportunity to try our beers over a bar that they are more likely to then buy them in the store to enjoy at home,” Breakside owner Scott Lawrence told the New School in January 2021. “For me in particular the social interaction when ordering a beer is a crucial part of the process. Same with coffee. I love interacting with my barista or bartender.”

Over the past 2+ years Breakside Beaverton has evolved from just a beer garden and food truck pod attached to a new outpost of sister business Please Louise pizza, and into a Breakside indoor brick-and-mortar pub and patio alongside the original outdoors only concept. The evolution is similar, if not more ambitious, then the recent opening of Breakside Astoria devised by director of restaurants and taprooms Dan Brownhill. The Breakside beer garden was devised with the inspiration of a Bavarian-style outdoor space with liter steins of beer and big open long beer hall-style tables, but has morphed to become more of the Oregon equivalent with an indoor/outdoor space to accommodate Oregon’s less than hospitable year-round weather conditions.

Breakside will soft open the 8,000 sq. ft. and 200 seat outdoors only portion of the Beaverton expansion this Saturday with beer only service from the “winnebeergo” officially named The Breaksider as the mobile bar station. The vintage 1972 winnebago was acquired by Breakside for special events, then became a beer tap truck at the CORE food cart pod on SE 82nd avenue during the pandemic, and has now been re-appropriated for Beaverton. The Breaksider is only a temporary addition to Beaverton as Brownhill finalizes the building and installation process of a custom designed storage container bar and kitchen that will permanently take it’s place.

The Breaksider and future container bar serves a large open air beer garden on the corner of SW Farmington and Angel Ave., directly behind Ex Novo Brewing Pizza and sandwiched between Staghorn Mercantile on one side and Top Burmese on the opposite corner. The outdoor area is filled with picnic tables and standing barrel tables, and partially covered by a raised and heated awning that gives cover to the elements and a permanent outdoor restroom facility, open flame gas fire pits, and string lights. The grass turf and concrete beer garden spreads out like a field between the growing old town Beaverton food and drink corridor on Watson Ave. and the new Westline apartments across the street on Angel Avenue..

At opening, or in the first few days/weeks, Breakside Beaverton will welcome on-site permanent food trucks starting with Chubby Bunny vegan breakfast sandwiches and Kudos Gyros truck of falafels and wraps, unfortunately the much hyped Matts BBQ food truck is not happening. But the New School has learned that Let’s Roll sushi burritos, Farmer & The Beast smashburgers, a new food truck from buzzy Swan Island Mexican shop Tito’s Taquitos, and new Chicago-style cracker crust pizza startup Proof Pizza, are all incoming.

Phase 2 of Breakside Beaverton is the activation of the indoor pub featuring a full bar and 16 drafts of Breakside beer. The darker and woodier interior contrasts the airy sun-drenched vibes and greenery of the beer garden with a cozier adult pub atmosphere. The pub will feature window booths, a cozy gas fireplace and chairs, plenty of flat screen TV’s, and a separate event space with private sound system and tv that can be setup with it’s own bar. All this surrounding a second patio with smaller tables and cornhole games, surrounded by planters on the corner of SW 1st and Angel. The Beaverton indoor public house side of the business is still in the works, but should be open and operational in August.

Breakside Beaverton Beer Garden opens on Saturday, July 15th at 12680 SW Farmington Road, Beaverton, OR 97005 with hours from 11am to 10pm.