Beer adjectives/words...help me study

If you are studying for something wouldn't the learning process for you be more successful if you do the research? The descriptions of the various beer styles on this site may help give you what you want. http://beeradvocate.com/beer/style/

 

German pilsner: candy crisp skunk ass--Er, in all the right ways, of course.

 

I'd suggest picking up 'tasting beer' by randy mosher and perhaps the cicerone cbs study cards, I got them both for christmas just for fun because I was thinking of applying for an after work bartending position and I learned quite a bit and I'm not even done reading the book.

 

I like using the tasing wheel - http://www.alabev.com/taste.htm
are you asking for additional desciptors for other sub categories?

 

The best beer adjectives I've seen used are...

• horse-taint
• dog-breath
• that smell underneath the steel pier in atlantic city
• like a gym-rat who doesn't shower

All that aside tho...

Stouts tend to have (IMO) flavors of coffee, chocolate (both obvious), plus I tend to use roasty (somewhat like a barbeque after it gets going mixed with roasted coffee), toasty (more like toasted white bread, also often present in various other styles), burnt (a small amount of a burnt is good in stouts, obviously you wouldn't want too much tho), and even ash (somewhat of a dry note that goes with burnt).

These might not be officially sanctioned flavor descriptors tho.

Sometimes stouts have a dark fruit / figs / raisin like flavor (so do other styles). I prefer stouts that are low on this particular parameter, but I like this range of flavors in beers like dubbels and quads.