Favorite styles from various countries

Germany - Rauchbier or Helles
England - Bitter
USA - APA
Belgium - Geuze
Czech - Pilsner

 

Germany – Sticke Alt

England - Bitter

USA – American style IPA and Classic American Pilsner

Belgium – Trappist style Ales: Dubbel, Tripel, Quad

Czech – Tmavý Ležák (Czech Dark Lager)

Cheers!

 

This is quite hard, there's at least a couple from each that I really like

Germany - Weizen
Czech Republic - pale lager
Belgium - Tripel
England - Bitter
US - AIPA
Poland - strong pale lager
Scotland - Heavy

 

England - bitter/esb
Germany - dopplebock
Czech - pils
Belgium - dubbel/trippel
France - farmhouse ale/saison
USA - pale ale/ipa (tough not to vote for stout here though)
Ireland - stout
Scotland - wee heavy

 

USA- "Session" IPA

UK- Bitter

Ireland- Red

Mexico- Vienna/Amber

Germany- Pils

Czech Republic- Pils

Belgium- Saison




Picked the major beer countries mostly. Im a pretty simple guy. Belgium and Ireland was a difficult choice for me but i went with a go to style for myself.

 

USA: American Wild Ale
Germany: Gose and Berliner Weissbier
Belgium: Lambics
England: Braggot
Scotland: Gruit

Wild Card: Triple Dry Hopped APA

 

USA: Red Ale
Germany: Marzen
Belgium: Tripel
England: Porter
Scotland: Wee Heavy
Ireland: Dry Stout
Czech: Pilsner

 

USA - American Double / Imperial Stout
Germany - Doppelbock (Lager); Kristalweizen (Ale)
Belgium - Trappist-style Quadrupel
England - Winter Warmer
Scotland - Wee Heavy

 

U.S.- Cream Ale
Belgium-Tripels
Germany- Hefeweizen
England- Dark Mild
Canada-Tripels, based solely on LFdM.
Czech-Pilsner
Belgium again for Sours

 

Usa-APA
GERMANY-kottbusser maibock
belgium- tripel
england- esb
mexico - vienna lager
czech - pils

 

ESB is restricted to just one beer in the UK - Fuller's. It's a name they chose , tried unsuccessfully to trademark it , and no other brewer would use it. It never was a style, just a bitter at the stronger end of the spectrum. "Extra special" is just marketing puff.
BTW , Bitter , Pale Ale, Heavy and even Red ale are all different names for the same thing.

 

US: IPAs and imperial stouts
Germany: Pilsner
Belgium: Strong pale ale (Duvel)

That's all that comes to mind at the moment. Haha. I guess I need to expand my beer horizons.

 

There may be confusion because several American breweries (Redhook, Full Sail, etc) have put out an ESB. Not sure if that was paying homage to Fuller's or not. The ones I've had were not particularly similar to Fuller's.
You may blow some minds with that last statement...

 

Well they are all pale ales. I'd expect a somewhat different flavour profile from something labelled an Irish red ale to a modern english bitter though, even if the strengths are pretty similar and they are in the same family

 

Germany - gose, bocks
Belgium - lambics, trappists
Czech Republic - czech dark lager
UK and Ireland - wee heavy, stouts
USA - black IPA, wood-aged mix-fermented beers

 

I think there's a lot of truth to that. For what it's worth, I just read Michael Jackson's New World Guide to Beer, and according to him English brewers traditionally labelled their beers more to differentiate them from each other, i.e. within the brewery's lineup, rather than to indicate that they necessarily conform to an established style. Bitter, for example, meant it was more bitter than the house Mild, not that it was necessarily comparable in bitterness to the next brewer's Bitter. Same with special, premium, and every other sort of Bitter; that indicated that it was the brewer's top of the line, typically meaning a bit higher gravity and strength than the other offerings.

There also seems to be a lot of confusion as to the difference between Stout and Porter.

But that being said, given the direction of beer consumer culture and globalized markets, it wouldn't be surprising that some might argue that these labels are taking, or have already taken on specific style definitions, in spite of whether or not this was originally the case.

My two cents' worth.

 

It's worth remembering (I keep on saying this ! ) that what we call styles began as simple names. Brewers brewed what they termed Pale Ale but to distinguish it from Mild (which in the day was also pale ) the customers called it Bitter. This incidentally has misled many writers into the belief that Bitter was the draught version and Pale Ale the bottled.
Irish Red was investigated by Beior , the Irish beer group and their conclusion was "The second proven thesis from the evening's tippling is that Irish Red is not a real beer style. On the night, nobody was confident about which was Smithwick's and which was Bass, even though one is supposedly an Irish "red ale" and the other a British "keg bitter".
http://www.beoir.org/index.php?opti...sh-red-paradox&catid=33:beoir-meets&Itemid=95

 

@marquis while esb may be limited to one beer in the uk, I still consider it an english style. You may consider it a sub style of a substyle of the general style pale ale, i stand by my statement that esb is indeed my favorite english style. While you and I have butted heads over this type of thing before, remember that your UK-centric mentality doesnt reflect the international trends.

 

Hmm.

Germany: Tough call here. "Virtually all of the above" is a single option, right? Push comes to shove, though, I'd say weizenbock. Or rauchbier. Or hefeweizen. Or kellerbier. Or doppelbock. Or dunkel. Or Berliner weisse. Or...

Belgium: Gueuze. Quad/BSDA gets an honorable mention.

US: Probably the American wild ale, though I don't know if that's a knock-off of Belgian beer.

France: Biere de garde.

Scotland: Wee heavy. Despite that not really being much of a traditional Scottish beer. I probably need to track down some gruit.

Mexico: Vienna lager.

Finland: Sahti.