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Hop Profile
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Research Notes
Breakside Summer Classic is a West Coast-style pilsener entry from Breakside Brewery of Milwaukie, Oregon. The Dekum ordering menu confirms that label, while the dedicated brewery page describes an IPA under the same name.
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Medal
Entries
Brewery
Location
48, West Coast-Style Pilsener
Gold (1st place)
97
Breakside Brewery & Taproom
Milwaukie, OR
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not published for a pilsener version (category name used)
Nothing is published for a pilsener version. The IPA page's ingredients are recorded in research notes rather than the structured fields, because they may describe a different beer from the medal entry.
Hop Profile
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Style Context
As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for West Coast-Style Pilsener describes an assertive, crisp lager with bold modern hop character and a body built to carry heavy dry hopping, at 5.0 to 6.0 percent ABV and 30 to 50 IBU. The pilsner menu's 6% ABV sits at the upper end of the range; no pilsner IBU was verified.
Awards History
Year
Competition
Category
Medal
2026
Great American Beer Festival
West Coast-Style Pilsener
Gold
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Not Found: Description, Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hops, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked breakside.com, breakside.com, breakside.com, breakside.com, untappd.com, toasttab.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.
Field pass 2026-10-13: Breakside's Dekum ordering menu explicitly lists Summer Classic as a West Coast Pilsner at 6% ABV, so that strength is filled. The dedicated brewery page and matching Untappd listing describe an IPA; their hops and bitterness are not transferred. No brewery-domain pilsner page, pilsner IBU or named pilsner hops were verified. The ordering menu is cited as a source, not used as beer url because it is hosted by Toast.
Conflict: the official list places Breakside Summer Classic in West Coast-Style Pilsener, while the only Breakside page for the name labels it an India Pale Ale. No pilsener version is published, so the IPA specs may not match the medal entry.
The brewery awards page lists a 2026 North American Beer Awards gold for Summer Classic and no GABF 2026 result.
Researched 2026-10-13.
Second pass 2026-10-13 (mismatch check): the Summer Classic page and the brewery's beer list were reopened. The page calls the beer "this new summer IPA" and says nothing about lager, lager yeast or cold fermentation; "Pilsner" appears only as a malt in its spec list. Summer Classic is not on the current beer list, whose lagers are Oktoberfest, Game Time Harvest Pilsner and Breakside Pilsner. No pilsener Summer Classic could be established, so the IPA specs were moved out of the structured fields. Web search hit its session limit, so Untappd and medal press were not checked.
IPA page specs, kept here for reference only: India Pale Ale, 6% ABV, 42 IBU, hops Thora (guava and passionfruit) and Krush (wild raspberry, melon and rhubarb), malts Pilsner and Two Row, flavor notes guava, floral and sweet citrus, seasonal, kegs and 16 oz cans (Breakside: Summer Classic IPA page).
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the Summer Classic page was read again and still describes an IPA; its quote stays in the body for reference only and is not recorded as this pilsener's description.