Beer Styles
Terms
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- Scottish Ale
- Full-bodied, dark, and strong, Scottish ales have a strong malt aroma and flavor. (An Ale, Top Fermenting)
- Pilsner
- A pale, light-bodied lager, with a hoppy, dry flavor. (Lager, Bottom Fermenting)
- Barley Wine
- Barley wine is very strong, very full-bodied, and possesses a strong flavor. Generally, barley wine has a distinct hop presence. (An Ale, Top Fermenting)
- Doppelbock
- A full-bodied beer, a doppelbock is a stronger variety of a bock. With a very dark brown color, it will usually also possess an intense malt flavor. (Lager, Bottom Fermenting)
- Trappist Ale
- A very special beer, the only beers that can be called Trappist ales are produced at monasteries. Generally medium in body and in color, these beers and usually strong in fruity, and are often served in a wine glass or goblet. (An Ale, Top Fermenting)
- White Beer (aka Witbier)
- White beers are pale and cloudy in color, with a medium body and apparent fruit, malt and hops flavors. (An Ale, Top Fermenting)
- Lambic
- A Belgian-style wheat beer, a lambic is not malted and very fruity in flavor. (An Ale, Top Fermenting)
- Hefeweizen
- An unfiltered wheat beer. Light in color, hefeweizen is fruity and light in body. (An Ale, Top Fermenting)
- Oktoberfest
- Medium-bodied and malty, an Oktoberfest will be dark in color and very flavorful. (Lager, Bottom Fermenting)
- Stout
- A very dark, full-bodied roasted-flavored beer. (An Ale, Top Fermenting)
- Bock
- A bock is usually full-bodied, with a strong, malty flavor. The color is most often a very dark brown. (Lager, Bottom Fermenting)
- Cream Ale
- This variety of beer is usually light in color and body, with high carbonation. Cream ales usually have very little hop flavor. (An Ale, Top Fermenting)
- IndiaPale Ale
- Often referred to as an IPA, an India pale ale will be very hoppy, medium-bodied, and amber in color. (An Ale, Top Fermenting)
- American Light
- This type of beer encompasses the most popular beers sold in the United States. Very light in color, this variety of beer will usually have little to no malt or hop characteristics. This type of beer is also very light-bodied. (Lager, Bottom Fermenting)
- Bitter Beer
- A British-style ale, a bitter is usually reddish-copper in color, and similar to a pale ale. (An Ale, Top Fermenting)
- Alt
- Derived from the German word for old, an Alt (or Altbier) is medium-bodied and slightly fruity. With a medium copper hue, Alts generally drink lighter than they appear. (An Ale, Top Fermenting)
- Porter
- Very dark in color, but medium-bodied, porter is usually dry and fruity with a discernable malt character. (An Ale, Top Fermenting)