A fourth-generation hop farm, a West Coast IPA, and a water bottle built for the parks we love. This is how two Pacific Northwest brands made something worth carrying.
Rooted in the Same Region
Bale Breaker Brewing Company doesn't just make beer in the Pacific Northwest — they grow it here. Founded in 2013 by siblings Meghann Quinn and Kevin Smith, along with her husband Kevin Quinn, on the Smith family's fourth-generation hop farm in the Yakima Valley, the brewery has been operating on the same land their great-grandparents first planted hops on in 1932. Today they're one of Washington's largest independent craft breweries and the only brewery in the world operating on a commercial hop farm, with taprooms in Yakima and Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, and a reputation built entirely on hop-forward beers grown where they're brewed.
That sense of place is inseparable from everything Bale Breaker does. So when they set out to create the I Love My State Parks IPA — a West Coast IPA brewed originally in support of the Washington State Parks — the intention was clear from the start: celebrate the parks of the Pacific Northwest, and give back to protect them.
Light-bodied with a crisp, dry finish and aromas of grapefruit, pineapple, and apricot, the beer is designed to be cracked open after a hike, at a campsite, or anywhere outdoors meets a cold drink. When Bale Breaker expanded the beer to also support Oregon State Parks and Idaho State Parks in 2026, the story needed something to go alongside it.
The Color That Started the Conversation
The origin of this collaboration is specific. When Bale Breaker was developing the can design for I Love My State Parks IPA, they modeled the color palette off a MiiR water bottle color — Cactus. It wasn't a coincidence. From the beginning, the team envisioned a water bottle as a genuine companion to the beer — something a hiker, kayaker, or park-goer could carry into the same places the IPA was made to celebrate. When the beer expanded its reach in 2026, reaching out to MiiR was the natural next step.
Both brands are headquartered in the Pacific Northwest. Both are built around the outdoors, sustainability, and doing business in a way that reflects the values of the region. The fit was obvious.
Why MiiR
For a product explicitly tied to state park conservation, the partner had to match the mission. MiiR is the only stainless steel drinkware company that is Certified B Corp, Certified Evergreen, and part of the Climate Neutral program. As the only brewery in the world operating directly on an active hop farm that's been in the family for four generations, Bale Breaker holds sustainability as an operating principle — not a talking point. A water bottle selling alongside a conservation-minded IPA needed to be made by a brand that took its own environmental responsibilities just as seriously.
On the design side, Bale Breaker handed MiiR the can artwork and asked them to run with it. The result was a bottle that felt true to both brands — carrying the visual language of the I Love My State Parks IPA into a format built to go everywhere the beer goes, and further.
Built to Give Back
Here's where the two brands converge most directly. Every can of I Love My State Parks IPA sold contributes a portion of proceeds to the state parks where the beer is purchased in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. And for every MiiR x Bale Breaker bottle purchased, a portion of the proceeds are donated to state parks across Washington, Oregon, and Idaho — tracked and tied to your purchase through MiiR's GiveCode™ program.
The GiveCode is MiiR's way of making impact tangible. Every bottle comes with a unique code that connects your purchase to the specific giving project it supported — so you can see exactly where your dollars went. For a collaboration built around conservation, it's the right mechanism: two products, one shared commitment, and a direct line between what you buy and what gets protected.
A Limited Edition Worth Seeking Out
The MiiR x Bale Breaker I Love My State Parks 20oz Wide Mouth Bottle is a limited-edition release. Double-wall vacuum insulation keeps drinks cold on the trail and hot at the campsite. The wide-mouth opening makes filling easy anywhere the adventure takes you. And once it's gone, it's not coming back.
It came from the Yakima Valley hop fields, the parks of the Pacific Northwest, and two brands that decided the best way to celebrate the places they love was to make something people could take into them.
Shop the limited-edition MiiR x Bale Breaker bottle before it sells out. A portion of sales from every purchase goes directly to state parks across Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Once this design is gone, it won't be back.
About Bale Breaker Brewing Company: Founded in 2013 on a fourth-generation family hop farm in the Yakima Valley, Bale Breaker is one of Washington's largest independent craft breweries, with taprooms in Yakima and Seattle. balebreaker.com
About MiiR: MiiR is a Seattle-based drinkware company designing products that give back. Certified B Corp, Certified Evergreen, and part of the Climate Neutral program — every product comes with a GiveCode™ connecting your purchase to a real-world impact project. miir.mom
