Beer Styles

Here are several links to find information on beer styles. These links will be useful in determining the hops and flavors you can expect to find in different beers. Remember, just because a beer claims to be a Dortmunder or Kolsch does not mean that it will follow the general guidelines for that beer style. Use the style classifications as a guide and not the rule.

Brewer's Assocation Style Guide

- A very good listing of beer styles complete with pictures. You can even download the whole thing as a pdf for reference.

Michael Jackson's Beer Hunter Style Guide

- Great place for information on beer styles. Nice, small and digestible descriptions on the different beer styles. Michael Jackson is also the leading authority on just about anything beer and the web site is loaded with useful and interesting information.

Beer Judge Certification Program

- For the most complete compilation of beer style information this where you want to go. This site will have more information than you will ever want on beer styles.

Beer Advocate

- Good source of information on beer styles as well as examples of each style.

RateBeer.com

- Another good source of information on beer styles with some examples of each style.