Types of Beer
Ale: Beers which are produced through the top formation process. These beers have higher alcohol contents and are darker in color.
Lager: Beer produced through bottom fermentation. Lagers are lighter and contain less alcohol than ales.
Ales
- Abbey Ale: Belgian strong ale
- Altbier: German dark bitter ale
- American Ale: Ale made with North American Hops
- Barley Wine: Fruity dark brown ale - may be fermented with wine yeast or champagne yeast
- Berliner Weisse: German pale ale
- Best Bitter: British dry ale
- Biere de Garde: French strong bitter ale
- Bitter: British pale dry ale
- Brown Ale: British ale that uses roasted and caramel malt
- Cask Ale: Unpasteurized ale that finishes processing in a pub cellar
- Dark Mild: English dark full bodied ale
- Dry Stout: Irish stout
- Dunkelweizen: German dark ale
- Faro: Belgian - combination of two lambic beers and sweetener
- Gueuze: Belgian lambic style ale which undergoes a second fermentation
- Hefeweizen: German wheat beer - not filtered
- Imperial Stout/Russian Stout: Very strong non pasteurized ale - matured for 2 months and bottled for one year
- Irish Red Ale: Irish sweet ale
- Lambic: Belgian acidic ale - wild yeast fermentation
- Light Ale: English bottled bitter ale
- Oatmeal Stout: Oatmeal brewed stout - enhanced fullness and flavor
- Old Ale: British strong ale with dark color
- Pale Ale: Dry amber ale
- Pale Mild: Malt dried rather than roasted - light color and flavor
- Porter: Very dark ale - originally from London - barley is not malted
- Saison: Belgian amber ale
- Scotch Ale: Scottish dark strong thick ale
- Spruce Beer: Beer made by using spruce tree exudates in fermentation
- Stout: Very dark, heavy, bitter, sweet stout - is less bitter than dry
- Strong Bitter: British dry ale
- Strong Scotch Ale: Higher alcohol content than scotch ale
- Sweet Stout: English stout - less alcohol than dry stout - also less bitter
- Trappist Beer: Strong fruity Belgian ale - from one of six abbey breweries in Belgium
- Weissbier: German pale ale made from wheat
- Weizenbier: South German Ale
- Wheat Beer: Mostly made with wheat - bottle conditioned
- Witbier: Belgian traditional wheat ale
Lagers
- Bock: Malt flavored, strong and highly hopped lager brewed in winter
- Dark Bock: Dark roasted malt bock
- Dark/Pale Double Bock: Dark dried malt bock
- Dortmunder: Pale lager from Dortmund, Germany
- Double Bock/Doppelbock: Very strong bock lager
- Eisbock: Strongest bock lager
- Marzenbier: Strong beer made in Germany when there wasn’t refrigeration - made in March so it would last until the beginning of fall
- Munchener: Malty lager from Munich
- Oktoberfest: Sweet, malty, and copper colored lager from Vienna
- Pale Bock: Dried malt bock
- Pilsner: Golden colored heavily hopped lager
- Rauchbier: Dark smoke flavored lager
