Archive for the ‘Beer Styles’ Category
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
Beer style guidelines are as numerous as the types of beers that you will find around the world. In fact there are different types of beer styles... styles of beer styles if you will. One organization that produces beer style guidelines is the Beer Judging and Certification Program ...
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Creating a simple yeast starter as outlined here at brewersfriend.com will greatly increase your yeast cell count, but there is a way to easily supercharge this process. By using a stir plate you will be able to grow nearly 50% more yeast cells using the same volume of starter ...
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Beer comes in a wide range of colors, from yellow golden to amber to opaque black. This chart shows the BJCP beer styles and their SRM colors in bar graph format. SRM stands for 'Standard Reference Method', a scale devised by scientists to describe how light or dark ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Beer comes in a wide range of malt/hop flavor balance and alcohol level. This chart shows the BJCP beer styles and their original gravity and final gravity in bar graph format.
Original gravity (OG) measures how much sugar is present in the wort before it is fermented. The ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Beer comes in a wide range of bitterness. This chart shows the BJCP beer styles and their international bittering unit (IBU) ranges in bar graph format.
Data for this chart comes from the the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP).
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
Beer comes in a wide range of alcohol content. This chart shows the BJCP beer styles and their alcohol by volume (ABV) in bar graph format.
Data for this chart comes from the the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP).
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
The Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) puts out a set of style guidelines for beer, mead, and cider. Across the categories of beer there is a wide variation in average alcohol content, bitterness, and color. This article examines the average for OG, FG, ABV, IBU and SRM ...
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