Conquering the "beer styles"

94 styles for me but with an Unblended Lambic in the fridge for #95.

Getting close to all of them...

 

93 for me. Anyone know where in NYC I can tick Happoshu and Kvass?

 

What?! Southern Tier Pumking!

 

I've had 91 out of... 104? Hmmm... I'm missing almost as many US states as I am styles, seems like. Wonder if I could have one of each missing style form one of each missing state... the mind reels.



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I've tried 65 out of 104, though it may be worth noting that 3 of the 104 listed "styles" are, "in the process of being sorted and moved into proper categories," indicating that these categories are temporary dumping grounds and perhaps should not be counted as true styles (fruit/vegetable beer, herbed/spiced beer, and smoked beer).

Trying a beer of each style is not important to me, 'specially because even the recognized styles tend to be pretty nebulous. But if I got within, like, 10, my latent OCD would probably kick in and then I'd buy beers I could care less about just to say I tried all the styles. Looking at the listing now though, I can't spot a style I haven't tried that I'm really motivated to seek out just for the sake of doing so.

 

All of them!

 

I've had examples of all four British styles.

 

'Type' is the more tradition word. And its more accurate in its more open interpretation.

 

Let's see; Southern Brown Ale, Northern Brown Ale ,Irish Red and Scottish Ale .

 

No idea about NYC, but in the UK most Russian restaurants have kvass and Russian delis sometimes stock it. Still searching for Happoshu...

 

I have had all 14 styles. I haven't had some of the ridiculous number of subcategories that BJCP insists on including in their ridiculous list, but I believe I have tried every style there is. Case in point is Happoshu, which is a bottom fermented beer with adjuncts. Why we need to say more than bottom fermented, or bottom fermented with adjuncts, for those beers is beyond me.

And, yes, I know I am in the extreme minority on this.

 

Minority here.....but yuck! Personally my first pumking was a drain pour...needless to say it was my last.

 

Agree, but forced it down - still not as bad as Desparados tequila beer.

 

The substyles are kind of necessary for competitions- for everything else, not so much.

 

Looks like I'm at 82. Is there an easy way to tell which styles I havent had?

 

Irish Red isn't really a British style. I meant Southern Brown Ale, Northern Brown Ale, Robust Porter and Scottish Ale.

 

There's some hot new action in Lapland with a few Imperial dry-firred Sahtis popping up. No Clydesdales, just Reindeer.

 

Don't be silly, there's also barrel aged IIPA's and RIS's we have tons of variety.

 

I found the list of styles and I see on my profile that I've had 88 of them but is there somewhere where I can see which ones I have and haven't had without manually going through and checking?