Bale Breaker Brewing Company

My husband and I attended the hop and brew school. They had a private event at the bale breaker brewing company. We drove from Houston Texas, definitely worth it. Amazing people and fantastic beer. Recommend the bottom cutter.

Very nice place. Dogs are allowed. But that's where the positives ended for me. If you like ale or IPA, you'll like it. Too bad there's no regular beer selection. The cashier was weird and dissatisfied.

Celebrating the hops season was fun at Bale Breaker. We were able to watch as the Top Cutter cut the hops down and then they were hauled away. We tried three beers and they were all amazing. There were a couple of interesting food trucks there as well. A very open, fun space. You need to go here!

What an atmosphere! Set on a hop farm and family friendly. The beers are refreshing and the outdoor patio is one of the best I’ve ever been to. Go here and come again

Another great trip to BB. Olivia kept us hydrated and was a very pleasant bartender. Great customer service. Additionally, my first time getting to eat from El Mero Mero Cameronero taco food trailer. Their food was amazing. The Carretas Marinas tacos (steak, onions, shrimp, bacon and mozzarella cheese) were so delish. Also really liked their spin on a torta sandwich. Definitely looking forward to getting to try more of their fare🤤

Excellent location, enough space for kids to run around. Had a good food truck parked there. Beer is great as expected but I have to say, the Limited Edition beers that they only serve there are better than their year round, canned releases. Ship the Limited ones!

I did the face painting here for their "last sip of summer" event and everything went super smooth and Taylor was awesome in getting everything set up. Great customers, great staff and my husband got to drink great beer! Win win!!

Hands down the worst brewery I've ever been to. The staff is unbelievable rude. The quality of the beer is so bad it's beyond description. If you want bad beer that is trying to be disguised behind an unbelievable amount of hops then this is your place. If you are looking for good quality then skip this stop; there are literally hundreds of better places.

Legendary brewery in Yakima, definitely hop heavy but with drinks to fit every palette. The outdoor patio is wonderful with ample space, a food truck, and a wonderful view for for sunsets. Consistently hoppy brews, border on crazy for those without the palette, but complex and delicious for those with the gift. New beers consistently on the list

Once again, updating a review just to update. This is my third visit, I think. The beer is awesome. The location is cool as hell. I could not recommend enough just for hanging out. The building is so nice. The merch is great and the beer is awesome.

When we walked in, it was so pretty. The patio was so aesthetically pleasing, and family friendly. There were yard games and card games to play, and a covered area that connected to an uncovered area to sit in. The service was great, and met all our needs. Our food came from a bbq food truck, though the truck options vary from time to time. We decided to try the loaded baked potato with brisket. It was AMAZING it looked beautiful, and the brisket was so tender and it had melted cheese with sour cream and butter. The experience was so nice, we will be back soon for sure. Overall I definitely recommend Bale Breaker Brewing Co.

My favorite brewery in the area! Their beer is excellent (my favorite are the IPA's). They always have great food trucks to try. Friendly service. And their outdoor area is very nice. I live out of state, but am in the area to visit family a few times a year. This is always our first stop!

Great ambience, sprawling brewery right next to hop farms. The day I went, they had an event to raise awareness and money for ALS. Tried their hazy IPA and sour beers. Both were really good and the cost to fill growler was quite fair. The Mexican taco truck served up some amazing street tacos - meat, shrimp and mushroom tacos were all incredibly tasty. Will be back for sure when I'm passing through Yakima next.

Wonderful service at this venue to relax in their small indoor area and larger outdoor areas. Food truck on hand for the munchies. Good selection of beer, a few ciders and limited wines. Mango peach slushie is a must-try! Help yourself to water from the cooler. Would be nice if they offered some non-alcoholic beverages. Ready to go six packs and apparel available. Will definitely be back!

Great service and lots of outdoor space! A wonderful beer selection and daily food truck visitors!! The is a fun place for any gathering from 2 to 20! Give it a try and buy some merch!!

Had a great time. Stopped in while exploring the Yak from Tri Cities. We thought there was also a restaurant here but there is not. Either way we had a few beers and caught the end of a Seahawks game, which they lost, but does not affect my review of this brewery. The staff was very friendly to us. My wife bought a sweater with their logo and the nice beer pouring person running the place. I guess my only complaint is that the beer prices were slightly more than what you pay in the store. Other than that great place and will be back.

A great find on our way to a Hip Camp site. So happy we stopped in on our van adventure. Great people beer, cider and food. Don't miss this place

What a terrific brewery. They always have a great food truck and their beer is delicious. The servers are friendly and helpful. Atmosphere is relaxed. Family and dog friendly. Highly recommend.

This place has been around for a while and by tasting several of their beers you can tell they know what they're doing. They ship beers and have handles all over the state. They're flagship area 41 beer was a little hoppy but nothing ridiculous but still had great smooth finish. The staff was excellent. The location is has heaters on the inside to keep you warm. Although it was dark when I showed up the grounds looked very pretty from what little I saw. The restrooms are super clean in the parking is easy.

We have been driving for 2 days from California to get to the gorge amphitheater and stopped here to decompress. My boyfriend and I got a beer each and a flight. I didn't taste a beer I didn't like. This was the perfect place to relax on the final stretch to our destination. Highly recommend!

Great beer selection. Great atmosphere. We will be back. Drinking by the hops was great.

This is a dog friendly establishment. Depending on weather we can sit under a covered area or in open air with our friends who have a dog. Food options are by way of food trucks and not scheduled for every evening. Bale Breaker has a calendar that you can check to see if there will be anything to eat. Since this is Yakima, more often than not the food trucks will be Mexican cuisine. Sometimes there is barbecue and occasionally you can score an evening when non-Mexican cuisine is scheduled. I was very excited when a food vendor was scheduled who offered hot dogs and corndogs. I wish this local crew could entice one of the Thai food trucks that visit their Seattle location to come to Yakima. I don't drink beer and always bring my own soft drink or water bottle. However, husband and friends are big fans of Hazy, High Camp, and Top Cutter.

Excellent atmosphere. Really well organized, fabulous hoppy beers. Inside and outdoor seating. Fire pits. Very well done.

Super cute place with a big outdoor area. I love that hops are grown on site and you can definitely smell them as you approach the brewery.

Fun times at the brewery! Nice space and plenty of in and outside seating.. currently enjoying the immense Hazey selections and recommend a flight if you are unfamiliar with the options! Food truck and good times abound. And if you are lucky you may find CLS Farms selling amazing fruit. We scored Rainier cherries picked this morning... cannot get better than that!!

Great place ! Super great atmosphere and can bring your pets. Great beer !! Love it!

Excellent beers! Great friendly wait staff. The food truck was awesome. Asian food don't remember the name, but we had a cabbage pancake which doesn't sound so good but it great! Purchased jerky and sausages from a roaming vendor that was great to have on our trip. I loved the atmosphere there. Would love to go back, but it's over a thousand miles from my home. If you like craft beer, you'll love this place.

The service was great and the environment is a chill vibe. You can sit outdoors and enjoy the covered patio or sit inside with TVs to watch sports. The beer choices had something for everyone. This place seems to attract locals and tourist - like me :) I recommend this as a stop to check in with the locals. They are following safety guidelines and that's cool.

If you're in Yakima, Bale Breaker is a must stop since it's beer is almost in any bar or restaurant you stop in. I had the mango IPA, it definitely had a strong mango flavor and wasn't overly hoppy. They have some indoor seating and a nice, large beer garden with a food truck. It was a good stop and they had some different beers on tap.

Great place to stop on way through Yakima. The facility is comfortable and dog friendly. They have a good food truck and great beer

Such a cool spot! Love the outdoor space and all the hops growing around the patio and beyond. Breast food truck options too!

IPA-heavy tap list with some nice brews. The flight was good, the space was cool, and the people were lovely. Highly recommended stop if you're in the area (and the food truck is not to be ignored). I appreciated the personal touches on the menu describing the beers and the history behind the brewery.

Bale Breaker Brewing has one of the best breweries I've been to. The tap room is located adjacent to the brewery, and also next to their own hop field. That is so rare in the brewery Market these days, as most breweries Outsource their hops from other places. They have a different food truck for every day of the week and Source Local Foods and ingredients to go with the menu du jour. The vibe is laid-back, but clean and modern. I would recommend any of these beers but as an IPA fan I really like the bottom cutter double IPA. 8.5 ABV 100 ibus a true hop lovers Delight! They do Growlers to go and also have March. A patio for dogs as well as a cornhole and hula hoop area for fun on the lawn. A must stop for any beer lover traveling through for sure!

Good beer, I like that they have 2 different samplers. They have a rotating list of different food trucks on site as well.

In the lovely clubhouse, down to sunny gravel road deep in the heart of hop country, exists what may be the most inspiring little story of a brewery in the world! Bale Breakers is a brewery built on a foundation of hop knowledge. The current owners are fourth generation hop farmers and have grown up around the stuff. The brewery was born out of an MBA final project and has grown to be what is currently a brand that is defining IPAs! The Yakima Valley currently produces roughly 80% of the countries hops and almost a third of the hops in the worlddash we're pretty sure that the beers coming out of this spot rank among the best as well! They're doing some great things with the field 41, the topcutter and bottomcutter IPAs, the myriad of other IPAs and pale ales that they offer, and my personal favorite the dormancy breakfast stout. I was pretty impressed with how good the stout was given their expertise in lighter beers - it has great body, a really nice coffee flavor and goes down very smooth. Most weekends when the tasting room is open they have live music and/or food trucks around. In the summertime, there's a lot of room for kids to run around and play as well. It's a great spot, run by some really awesome people who are doing great things with beer! It's a phenomenal spot for the valley and one that everybody needs to try.

I like the beer. The hazy L IPA is my favorite. It is kids and dog friendly. There is plenty of grass, shade, and sun. There are also three fire pits. It is a great local vibe. (9 year old Javen posted this. My mom said it was okay.) Cheers!

Bale Breaker has an excellent tap room located in the outskirts of the Yakima area. Depending which route you take you can also go by hop farms that can really get you in the mood for drinking craft beer! Bale Breaker's taproom is spacious and a perfect place to come to on a hot summer day. They also have patio seating too! Bale Breaker has beers that are their regular beer selection that is usually on tap and then small batches as well. They have a very interesting beer that is a Mango IPA but alas when I was there it was unavailable. So my selection was the Topcutter IPA which was pretty good. On my tour through the Yakima area and exploring it's craft breweries I didn't necessarily think that Bale Breaker was the most unique in recipe concerning that IPA I ordered however the location and atmosphere boosts my rating for the place up to four stars. Definitely a great place to come and relax!

I can only say WOW! Love their beers, their IPAs are awesome and the service was SUPER friendly. Hope to be back soon!

Hop fields to tap room to a frosty brew mug to you---FRESH! We are filling up with a pint of Topcutter IPA west coast style with fine Yakima hops grown in view of the tasting room. Simcoe, citra, ahtanum and mosiac hops provides citrus, fruity and flora bites and lingers in the throat the way I like it. 6.8% ABV 70 IBU! Nice tasting room! Rotating food trucks by the patio! I did not try the food (that looked good) because the source was Cash & Carry---I go for local grub. 1000 acres of hop hop hops! Heavenly!

Has to be on your must-do list if you visit Yakima. Great beers, food truck, great area to hang outside in the sun. Had yard games in the past before Covid. Hopefully they come back. Good for kids.

"Discovered" Bale Breaker by happenstance as their massive hop logo and delivery truck caught my eye while passing thru town. The grain silo confirmed my suspicion.....wow! A new brewery out here?!? I noticed during the weekdays they open at 3, but a kind soul lugging spent grains on a forklift asked if he could help! Well Heck ya! So I asked if I could get a sixer of their amazing Top Cutter IPA and he kindly obliged, ran into the brew house and out he came with the goods. Combining the friendly greeting with the crisp IPA and bountiful aroma, was the pristine grounds, immaculate facility and enhancing proximity to the hop yard on the adjacent lot. If the experience could be THIS good, (all from the parking lot) how good will the next visit be, INSIDE?? Can't wait and thanks again for being so accommodating and service oriented. By the way did I mention your IPA is phenomenal? Woah!

BEST IPA SELECTION EVER!!!!!!!! I can't be in yakima without visiting this awesome brewery. It simply defines the hoppy beer of northwest

Great Beer!! Maybe too many IPAs for a non IPA guy, but good beer none the less!! Beer prices are great, but food is over priced and limited!

Good beer, but nothing mind blowing. The outdoor seating area was nice. It's dog friendly which is great when the dogs aren't howling & barking. I'd come here again.

A bittersweet trip to the eastern side of the mountains as we dropped off our son for his first day of college. But our mood perked up immensely with a trip to nearby Yakima, the Hops capital of the free world. We ended up at Bale Breaker, whose beers I have drank many times back home, but this trip to the "Mother Ship" was amazing and memorable. The Bottom Cutter IPA is the DIPA version of their Top Cutter offering, and is a truly beautiful beer: hoppy, resiny, bitter in the middle, with a lingering flavor of hoppy malt at the finish. The wife (not quite the hops fan that I am) had the dry hopped Blonde, and gave it an enthusiastic thumbs-up. Throw in a bowl of (free) mustard pretzels, and a rousing game of hillbilly golf (enjoyed in the beautiful beer garden, surrounded by 'yet-to-be-harvested' hops), and I can't imagine a more lovely event to soften the 'one step closer to empty nesters' experience. It's amazing how an incredible beer, enjoyed in a beautiful setting, can soften, and (dare I say) transform your mood. If you make it to central Washington state, put this stop at the top of your list, and experience beer-vana as I have.

Best beer ever and lots of choices. My personal favorite is Leota Mae and a close second is Field 41. Nice seating and atmosphere. Service always the best.

Great beer, great location, great beer. This was a fun brewery to visit, even on a really hot late July day. The cold beer paired well with the hot weather. We brought our own Mexican food to enjoy with the beer and just as I wanted more food, a wonderful taco truck rolled in. Definitely worth the short drive outside of Yakima.

Gizmo gives it four paws, dog friendly and a great stout..... Friendly staff and a great atmosphere for meeting friends .... Furry and not so furry.

The beer is top notch. I started with a flight of four which were all great and then moved to some pilot beers which were even better. The ambience and atmosphere were great too. Nice beer garden outside with some hops growing past the fence.

Extremely fresh and refreshing beers, this place came from nowhere in a few years to be my favorite store bought beer so I was excited to visit the mothership. Bartender steered me away from the fancy limited edition "kiln series" to "bottom cutter" and I'm glad he did. The tastes of the kilns were fussy with an odd thick malt. Top cutter and bottom cutter are simply great fresh refreshing hoppy beers. Bright malt that tastes terrific in the summer heat and appropriate amount of very nicely balanced hops. I much prefer the bottom cutter but its not available where I live. Guys can you please start canning it?! The place serves no food but has big tables for you to bring your own. We highly recommend Antohitos Mexicana. Also bring growlers to fill (and an icy cooler) because bottom cutter is impossible to find anywhere else. The place is located in the hop fields. Beautiful and green in the day but I think best to sit out at night and smell the breezes in the fields. Great contemplative scene hanging with all the other contented customers.

I'm all about unfiltered beer...but for 20+ bucks I got a growler of sludge. Pretty disappointing. I actually love their X :(

Came with my husband, and we both really enjoyed everything from the atmosphere to the great beer! We usually purchase their IPAs in stores near us, but since we were in town we had to stop and check them out. So glad we did! Recommend you get a flight, and go from there.

Great beer in a great setting! Must try if you're from out of the area. Fresh, homegrown, and tasty local beer from the hop capital of the USA...Moxee Wa! I don't see any food! But beer is food! Oh wait food truck outside! Holla!

My first visit to Bale Breaker after years of hearing good things about this place. Nice, clean, and friendly environment. I also noticed young families so this place is family friendly covered. I ordered the Walkabout IPA and it was excellent.

They have a great range of beers from whatever scale you're looking for. They are kid friendly, so my friends are able to come out there. They have fun events as well. They have been known to give industry discounts as well.

Great place to get some flights and enjoy the patio during the summer. Beers all have distinct and different flavors that make the tasting very enjoyable. Service was good as were prices. Will be going here again the next time I visit in the area.

We love to visit breweries when we travel, each has it's own personality and flavors. This one has a neat setting as it sits amid hop plants..... which unfortunately were not growing the time of year we visited. I loved the outdoor patio area with games. The day we visited they had a food cart there... not sure if that is a frequent thing or not. I liked a lot about this brewery, but I couldn't find a beer I liked! It seemed they were all the same - IPAs.... I like to have more of a variety - a porter or an amber would be a great addition. So because of the selection, I am only giving it at average review. Still worth a visit though!