Beer Styles

BrewWiki Portal Beer Styles

Beers are categorized into styles such as Stouts, Porters, Weizen, Pilsner, and India Pale Ale. Most beer styles originated in a particular country, region or city. There are literally hundreds of unique styles of beer from around the world. Arguably the best accepted style guide for the homebrewer today is the BJCP Style Guideline which currently contains 28 main style categories and is used to judge most US beer competitions.

Beer Style Listing

Styles by category

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1. Light Lager

 a. Lite American Lager
 b. Standard American Lager
 c. Premium American Lager
 d. Munich Helles
 e. * Dortmunder Export

2. Pilsener 3. European Amber Lager 4. Dark Lager 5. Bock 6. Light Hybrid Beer 7. Amber Hybrid Beer 8. English Pale Ale 9. Scottish and Irish Ale 10. American Ale 11. English Brown Ale 12. Porter 13. Stout 14. India Pale Ale 15. German Wheat and Rye Beer 16. Belgian and French Ale 17. Sour Ale 18. Belgian Strong Ale 19. Strong Ale 20. Fruit Beer 21. Smoke-flavored/Wood-aged Beer 23. Specialty Beer

• Amber Ale
• American Barleywine
• American Brown Ale
• American IPA
• American Pale Ale
• American Stout
• American Wheat or Rye
• Baltic Porter
• Belgian Blond Ale
• Berliner Weiss
• Biere de Garde
• Blonde Ale
• Braggot
• Brown Porter
• California Common
• Classic Rauchbier
• Cream Ale
• Dark American Lager
• Doppelbock
• Dortmunder Export
• Dry Stout
• Dunkelweizen
• Dusseldorf Altbier
• Eisbock
• English Barleywine
• English IPA
• Extra Special/Strong Bitter
• Flanders Brown Ale
• Flanders Red Ale
• Foreign Extra Stout
• Imperial IPA
• Irish Red Ale
• Koelsch
• Mailbock/Helles Bock
• Pilsner
• [Add additional styles here]

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• BJCP Beer Style Guideline - The style guidelines used for US competition

See Also

• Brewing References

External Links

• BJCP Style Guideline - The definitive beer judging style guideline