Government Hill is starting to explode with more restaurants and bars slated to open on East Grayson, closer to Broadway, across from the Pearl. “The brewing community here is every bit as open and welcome as it was in Portland,” he said. He’s also gotten to know local brewers in the five years they’ve lived in San Antonio. He said he’s been brewing for 20 years-whether it was brewing 40-gallon batches in Portland, or helping his friend set up his system for a brewpub in Pittsburgh. Breakaway Brewing will be the couple’s first brewery, and they’re doing it alone without an investor or partner. He described the menu as “gastropub fare” that will pair with the various beers-”stuff you’re not typically going to find in a brewery, but with a little bit of a Texas twist to them.”Ĭhris and Jean Pal-Freeman moved to San Antonio five years ago when Jean took a job for an oil and gas company. He emphasized the place will be for everyone-cyclist or not. “Most of my beers are balanced.”Ī post shared by Breakaway Brewing Company an avid cyclist, said the beers will be named after cycling terms. “I’m not hoppy for hoppy sake, or fruity for fruity sake,” Pal-Freeman said. Pal-Freeman said to expect his brews to be in the 4-6.5% ABV (alcohol by volume) range, while adding that his IPAs are a little stronger at 7.2% ABV with “a little bit more malt and body to them.” “Anybody who says they don’t like beer, my response is they haven’t found the right beer. “I’ve taken a little bit from every place I’ve been, tweaked my recipes a little bit from everywhere,” said Pal-Freeman, who grew up across the country being in a military family, but considers brewery-crazed Portland home having lived there for 10 years. “I want (the brewery) to be hyper-local and involved in the neighborhood … the meeting place, a place where you can go and hang out and meet everybody.”Įxpect 12 to 16 taps, said Pal-Freeman, who’s been brewing for more than 20 years in places like Portland, Ore. “I am very much about the old-style public houses,” Pal-Freeman, 52, said.
The place will be kid friendly, and dogs will be welcome on the patio, he said.
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Pal-Freeman and his wife, Jean, plan to open with a full brewing system and kitchen inside the 3,360-square-foot space on East Grayson, which will also include outdoor seating. Co-owner and head brewer Chris Pal-Freeman anticipates a September or October opening.
Grayson St., the same retail strip that houses Folklores Coffee House and Betty’s Battalion, across from Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston’s main gate. Photo by Ben Olivo | HeronĪ new brewery is coming to the downtown area, this time to the rapidly growing Government Hill neighborhood.īreakaway Brewing Company is a cyclist-themed microbrewery and gastropub slated for 1518 E. Breakaway Brewing Company is a new brewery coming to Government Hill this fall.
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