Abbreviations and Acronyms

found this doing a google search.

Barrel Aged/Barrels
BA - Barrel aged
bal - barrel aged
bbal - bourbon barrel aged
BT - buffalo trace bourbon
EC - elijah craig bourbon
HH - heaven hill bourbon
JD - jack daniels whiskey
MM - maker's mark bourbon
PVW - pappy van winkle bourbon
Beers and Breweries
001 - 012 (Lost Abbey Veritas Series)
2TD, 3FH, 4CB, 5GR - Bruery Xmas beers
3F - 3 Fonteinen
AftW - Adam from the Wood
BBC - Berkshire Brewing Company OR Bluegrass Brewing Company
BB4D - Bourbon Barrel 4th Dementia
BBCS - Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
BBVD - Big Black Voodoo Daddy
BCBCS - Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout
BCBRS - Bourbon county Brand Rare Stout
BCBVS - Bourbon County Brand Vanilla Stout
BCS or BCBS - Bourbon County Brand Stout
BT - Black Tuesday
CAftW - Cherry Adam from the Wood
CBC - Cambridge Brewing Company
CBS - Canadian Breakfast Stout
CCB - Cigar City Brewing
CdC - Cuvee De Castleton
CdT - Cuvee de Tomme
CL - Capt. Lawrence
CR - Chocolate Rain
CW BBBW - Central Waters Bourbon Barrel Barleywine
DDG- Duck Duck Gooze
DL - Dark Lord
FBS - Founders Breakfast Stout
FF - Fifty/Fifty (brewery) or Flaming Fury
FfaC - Framboise for a Cure
FFF - Three Floyds
GB - Ghandi Bot
GI - Goose Island
GM - Grey Monday
HT - Heady Topper
IP - Isabelle Proximus
(BA)IST - (Barrel Aged) Imperial Stout Trooper
KBE - Kuhnhenn Blueberry Eisbock
KRE - Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock
KBS - Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout
KH - King Henry
KtG - Kate the Great
LA - Lost Abbey
LH - Left Hand
LP - Lou Pepe
NEBCO - New England Brewing Company
PiaPT - Partridge in a Pear Tree
PT - Pretty Things
PtE - Pliny the Elder
PtY - Pliny the Younger
RR - Russian River
SA - Sam Adams (occasionally used for St. Arnold)
(BA)SC - (Barrel Aged) Sexual Chocolate
SHBRL - Southampton Black Raspberry Lambic
SitR - Sour in the Rye
VF - Victor Francenstein
WC - White Chocolate
WnB - Wake - n Bake - Terrapin Coffee Oatmeal Stout
ZD - Zombie Dust

 

I think I learned all of the acronyms that I needed to know within a couple weeks, although I did stumble a couple times with differentiating between Beer Advocate and Barrel Aged. I was curious about many acronyms, and eventually I figured them out. I actually felt a bit of accomplishment when I learned what people were talking about. I certainly wouldn't expect people to spell out Black Chocolate Stout every time when a simple BCS will suffice for most forum-goers.

 

I can see using acronyms of the most popular beers like KBS, BCBS, etc. But the most should be spelled out.

 

I agree that 2-3 popular ones can be used (KBS is actually named KBS nowadays, so that one is okay regardless of complaints), but others need to be spelled out the first time they are used in a post. If that term is used again in the same post then it's okay to use the abbreviation.

 

STFU

Seriously I'm with you. I think I have most of them down, but I still see the odd one that confuses the s**t out of me. Like ADwtD took me a while to figure out.

 

I don't mind the abbreviations.

 

I think the assumption behind the innundation of acronyms is that people who sign up on the BA forums as opposed to lurking are either knowledgeable/resourceful enough or are at least studious/diligent enough to look up beers in the humongous database that we've come to know as BeerAdvocate.

If all else fails, Google.

 

You'll get used to them.. Took me awhile, but now I can figure out most of them.

 

You learned all the acronyms but BCS stands for Black Chocolate Stout?! Pretty sure you just proved the OP's point - which I'm in agreement with.

 

What do you think it stands for?

 

I can figure most out too...but the whole point is that we shouldn't have to decipher code when talking about beer.

The biggest and brands and names are more than fine. As a noob it didn't take long at all, but I'd say around 50% of abbreviations used really shouldn't be used in a national/worldwide forum.

 

You missed BS which is an acronym widely used as a shorthand for twaddle.

 

I wasn't being snarky...only that I've seen it used for Bourbon County Stout quite a bit too.

 

Then you have seen it used incorrectly, because BCBS is the acronym for Bourbon County Brand Stout. Regardless, there are typically context clues within posts that help people differentiate.

 

My understanding:

BCS - Black Chocolate Stout (Brooklyn)
BCBS - Bourbon County Brand Stout (GI)

Easily confused though.

Side note - I'm always so tempted to accept people's ISO: V12 in the trading forums, and send them a Victory V12

 

Exactly. Wasn't saying it was BCBS, just that I've seen it confused and even the google search post above reflects that.

Reading the trading forums is a headache...good thing I don't have any whalez to shop!

 

Nope. I rarely use abbreviations or acronyms. Sometimes I have no idea what they mean when someone else uses them. But amazingly enough it has never once bothered me in the least.

 

To be honest, I was a bit taken aback by your response to what I considered a fairly routine acronym, but I think I understand where you're coming from now. I haven't ventured into the trading forums because that's just not my thing, but I'm sure that the acronym use there is a step up from what I've become accustomed to.

 

It took me the longest time to figure out what BCBS meant. As someone who handles benefits here at work, BCBS to me = Blue Cross Blue Shield.

All kidding aside, I'm OK with this one and a couple others (KBS) but otherwise I agree with the OP.