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Style Groupings

Beer Style Guide:

A beer 'style' is a label or grouping given to a beer to describe its flavour, origin and characteristics. Esentially it is just a name badge that over the years, through trial and error, been adopted by both consumers and producers alike. The following list is not a be-all and end-all list to beer styles, but rather Beer Guide Australia's interpretation of the styles on the market today, and what is likely to exist in the near future. As such this style guide will be updated over time to reflect any market changes.

Where possible we have provided additional information you may find useful, including food matching, glassware and serving temperature information based on each unique style.

We have created a forum topic available here if you would like to discuss the styles and groupings we have currently.

Ale

American Ale

• American Red Ale
• American Barley Wine
• American Blonde Ale
• American Brown Ale
• American Dark Wheat Ale
• American Double IPA
• American Double Stout
• American IPA
• American Pale Ale
• American Pale Wheat Ale
• American Porter
• American Stout
• American Strong Ale
• Pumpkin Ale
• Rye Beer
• Wheat Wine

Australian Ale

• Australian Red Ale
• Australian Blonde Ale
• Australian Brown Ale
• Australian IPA
• Australian Pale Ale
• Australian Porter
• Australian Stout
• Australian Strong Ale
• Australian ESB
• Australian Dark Ale

Belgian Ale

• Belgian Dark Ale
• Belgian IPA
• Belgian Pale Ale
• Belgian Strong Dark Ale
• Belgian Strong Pale Ale
• Dubbel
• Lambic - Fruit
• Lambic - Unblended
• Quadrupel
• Saison
• Tripel
• Witbier

French Ale

English Ale

• Baltic Porter
• English Barley Wine
• English Bitter
• English Brown Ale
• English IPA
• English Pale Ale
• English Porter
• English Stout
• English Strong Ale
• English ESB
• English Sweet Stout
• English Oatmeal Stout
• English Dark Ale

Finnish Ale

• Sahti

German Ale

• Altbier
• Berliner Weissbier
• Dunkel Weizen
• Hefe Weizen
• Kristal Weizen
• Roggenbier
• Weizenbock

Irish Ale

• Irish Dry Stout
• Irish Red Ale

Russian Ale

• Kvass

Scottish Ale

• Scotch Ale
• Scottish Ale

Lager

Amercian Lager

• American Red Lager
• American Double Pilsner
• American Macro Lager
• Low Alcohol Beer (American)
• Australian Pale Lager

Australian Lager

• Low Alcohol Beer (Australian)
• Australian Pilsner
• Australian Macro Lager
• Australian Red Lager
• Australian Premium Lager
• Australian Dark Lager
• Australian Bock
• Bohemian Pilsner

Czech Lager

• Czech Pilsner

European Lager

• European Dark Lager
• European Pale Lager
• European Strong Lager

German Lager

• Bock
• Doppelbock
• Dortmunder
• Eisbock
• German Pilsner
• Munich Dunkel Lager
• Munich Helles Lager
• Oktoberfest
• Vienna Lager
• Oktoberfest
• Rauchbier

Japanese Lager

• Happoshu
• Japanese Rice Lager

Mead

Cider

Alternative Opinions

Wikipedia currently offers the following diagram, which as you can see doesn't contain a lot of the Styles that we have listed either as further proof it is a very unregulated area in the industry which makes it hard for the consumer to nail down exactly what type of Beer they enjoy. Hopefully the listing that we have will assist as we believe it is much more accurate than Wikipedias, although it is just our opinion.