Should we (if so how) add Beer/Cider Hybrids

I too would vote no. Like you said, I think it dilutes the primary focus of BA.
I’d personally add them to Fruit and Field Beers

 

That's really playing with the lock on Pandora's box, but I'd understand if they fit under Fruit and Field Beers. If BA was ever going to delve into beverages other than beer, they'd need to make sister sites, like CiderAdvocate or MeadAdvocate.

 

Another vote to just lump them under fruit and field beer style.

 

Frankly, this notion of BeerAdvocate is IMHO, short sighted and frankly seems like elitism. When I go to a new brewery, I get a taster of all the things. I don't limit myself to just beer, I want to experience the talents of the brewmaster, their vision, the ingredients, the craft.

Telling new folks that this is not an inclusive place, and go somewhere else for cider/perry/seltzers/mead/etc puts a bad taste in new members mouths, note the undercurrent of elitism, and go elsewhere (or nowhere for that matter).

Frankly, the styles should match the list of the appropriate association (https://www.brewersassociation.org/educational-publications/beer-styles/ and the like).

 

I vote no,cause then we would have to add sour fruited seltzers also.

 

The beverage in the OP is a graff or graf - a beer/cider "hybrid" made by mixing apple juice with beer wort and fermenting with "ale yeast." I don't know why this wouldn't qualify for inclusion on this beer site. Someone should explain why it wouldn't. We seem to be OK with adding all sorts of stuff to beer and still including such on BA. Yesterday I drank a GABF winning beer made with "wine yeast." Doesn't the braggot style on BA set a precedent for a gaff beverage being beery enough for BA?