Breakside Wanderjack

Breakside Wanderjack is a hoppy lager entry from Breakside Brewery of Milwaukie, Oregon. The brewery's only published Wanderjack is a West Coast IPA, and no lager version of the beer is published anywhere that could be reached.

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Brewery Description

The brewery publishes no description of a lager Wanderjack. Its Wanderjack page describes a West Coast IPA, quoted here for reference only:

The beer that came out of that thought experiment is filled with three of the fruitiest hops around, Strata, Mosaic, and Azacca, along with a touch of Simcoe to anchor the beer in classic dank and catty West Coast flavor. The bitterness is modest.

Source: Breakside: Wanderjack IPA page

Tasting Notes

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Ingredients

Nothing is published for a lager 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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Brewing Details

Style Context

The Brewers Association guidelines page read for this run lists no style named Hoppy Lager. As loose category context only, its nearest hop forward lager style, American-Style India Pale Lager, calls for high hop aroma and flavor at 5.6 to 7.9 percent ABV and 50 to 70 IBU. No lager specs are published to compare.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

Breakside Brewery & Taproom is in Milwaukie, OR.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website, Instagram.

Related

• Brewery: Breakside Brewery & Taproom

Links

• Breakside Brewery
• Breakside: Wanderjack IPA page
• Breakside: beers
• Breakside: awards
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines

Gaps

• Not Found: 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, web searches recorded in the research notes.
• Not Found: ABV, IBU. Checked breakside.com, breakside.com, breakside.com, breakside.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, Catalog.beer search by beer and brewery name.

Research Notes

• Field pass 2026-10-13: The matching Untappd WanderJack page describes the Barley Brown's collaboration as an American IPA at 7.1% ABV and 63 IBU, with Strata, Mosaic, Azacca and Simcoe. No source establishes those specs for a lager version, so the listed gaps remain. A search excerpt from the 2025 North American Beer Awards places Wanderjack in India Pale Lager or Cold IPA, but provides no recipe or batch identification.
• Conflict: the official list places Breakside Wanderjack in Hoppy Lager, while the only Breakside page for the name labels it a West Coast India Pale Ale. No lager version is published, so the IPA specs may not match the medal entry.
• The brewery awards page lists earlier Wanderjack medals (2025 North American Beer Awards gold, 2022 Oregon Beer Awards gold) and no GABF 2026 result.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Second pass 2026-10-13 (mismatch check): the Wanderjack page and the brewery's beer list were reopened. The page says nothing about lager, lager yeast, an IPL or cold fermentation, and the beer list carries Wanderjack only as a West Coast India Pale Ale; its lagers are Oktoberfest, Game Time Harvest Pilsner and Breakside Pilsner. No lager Wanderjack 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: West Coast India Pale Ale, 7.1% ABV, 63 IBU, hops Strata, Mosaic, Simcoe and Amarillo in the spec list (the description names Azacca instead of Amarillo), malts Two Row and Vienna, flavor notes "Resi, Blueberry, Tropical, Tangerine", seasonal, kegs and 19.2 oz cans. First brewed in 2020 with Barley Brown's Beer for Breakside's 10th anniversary (Breakside: Wanderjack IPA page).
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the Wanderjack page was read again and still describes only the West Coast IPA; no lager version is published, so nothing is carried into the structured fields.