It's been a staggering change, a pop-up neighborhood of urban apartment-dwellers and the insta-amenities that have followed. There's a New Seasons grocery around the block, new restaurants, and now, a new Breakside. Despite the new-building smell wafting around the neighborhood, it feels well-designed and organic (more so than the South Waterfront, which is still trying to put all the pieces together).

The new Breakside location is itself a novel curiosity. The first pub was built with limited funds on a modest scale; the building dictated the design. Their second facility, a production brewery, was secreted away in a business park at the back of a confusing parking lot. (And in Milwaukie. For non-Portlanders, that's across the Clackamas County line, a psychic barrier nearly as sturdy as the old Berlin Wall in separating the two towns.) There really isn't a Breakside architectural style Modesty had so far been the only common thread. So what would the new place look like?

From the moment you see the giant mural of a man's face on the building, you know "modest" has been left in Milwaukie. The mural is part of the brewery's rebrand that you see on current labels of Wanderlust and IPA--and in their new oddly-meh logo. More in all of that in due course, but let's stick to the physical space. It's a boxy warehouse with a central dining room backed by an attractively-industrial bar on one end. There's a patio with outside seating just beyond the pub, and the warehouse doors can swing open to unite the spaces in an indoor/outdoor thing on sunny days. It seems like one giant space--the ceiling of the central pub is the building's, and it soars miles overheard, but the spaces is actually used more cleverly than that.

There are niches and pockets downstairs, and there's a mezzanine above with its own bar. If you gaze down one side, you see the dining room. If you look through the glass wall on the other, you see the 10-barrel brewery. The brewery is incredibly compact and upright, and it takes a moment for your mind to adjust so it can pick out the brewhouse and fermentation portions. There are plans to add a rooftop bar in coming months, which will further expand the range of possible experiences.