Beer style and hops guide
Explore hop varieties suitable for the beer you want to brew.
India Pale Ale (IPA)
Bitter
Pilsner
Wheat
Lager
Pale Ale
Red Ale
Porter
Stout
Ale
Belgian Ale
Sour
India Pale Ale (IPA)
India Pale Ale (IPA) is a light, more strongly brewed Pale Ale.
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Bitter
Bitter is a variation of pale ale and originated from England, which is why most traditional bitters would use British hop varieties like Fuggle or Goldings. It’s gold to dark amber or copper in colour. Bitters are normally lower in ABV and served cask-conditioned.
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Pilsner
Pilsner is a pale lager, light straw to golden in colour. It’s named after the Czech city Pilsen, where the style emerged first in the 19th century. What sets a pilsner apart from a lager is its slightly spicier, more hop-forward flavour.
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Wheat
While other beer styles mainly use malted barley, rye, rice or oats, wheat beer contains more than 50% wheat. Wheat beers are typically cloudy and light-coloured but dark wheat beers (Dunkelweizen) and filtered wheat beers (Kristallweizen) are also popular variations of the style.
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Lager
Lagers include a large family of bottom-fermented beers, where the yeast slowly ferments at low temperatures. Lager is possibly the world’s most popular beer style by volume.
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Pale Ale
The term ‘pale ale’ is a very diverse beer style and encompasses a breadth of mostly light-coloured (due to the use of pale malt), more sessionable, hop-forward ales.
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Red Ale
Red ales get their name from their amber to copper colour, which typically comes from crystal malts and roasted barley. They commonly taste slightly malty with a toffee-caramel sweetness.
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Porter
Porter is a type of dark beer, which uses darker malts such as brown malt, chocolate malt or even smoked or peated malt.
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Stout
Similar to porter, stouts use rich and dark malts and typically have chocolatey, toffee or coffee flavours.
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Ale
Ale comprises a huge variety of top-fermented beers, ranging from light pale ales to robust Belgian IPAs, stouts and bitters.
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Belgian Ale
Belgian-style Ales are strong golden ales with complex, fruity flavours, which originate from specially selected Belgian yeast strains.
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Sour
Sour beers have a distinctively acidic or sour taste, which derives from the use of wild yeast strains and the introduction of souring bacteria into the brewing process. Popular sour beer styles include lambic ales, Berliner Weisse or gose.
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