Beer style updates? When will Happoshu be removed?

Definitely by the end of the year.

As for Happoshu, I'll tag @shigg85 to see where he's at with moving things around.

 

Looks like only two were added. No big deal.

Mods are volunteers who help out in their spare time, but I'll go ahead and expedite this by moving the remainder and deleting the "style" this week.

 

To whatever style best fits each individual beer.

 

No problem. Basically, Happoshu was added ages ago. It shouldn't have been, because it's not a beer style and the styles of beer that can fall under this tax category can greatly vary.

@shigg85, who lives in Japan, has been pushing for this update to be made for a while now.

 

To be clear, most Cantillon is also "happoshu" in Japan, as is Alesmith Speedway Stout and others that involve lots of things beyond hops and/or malt. It's a silly tax category, not a way of effectively describing a beer style.

 

Again, whatever the actual style of the beer is. And, as @shigg85 and I explained, styles vary.

Examples:

• One was a Blonde Ale so I moved it accordingly.
  
• Some are very close to basically being a Japanese Rice Lager or American Adjunct Lager.
• But I found one that was a Belgian Pale Ale.
• And another that was a Witbier.
• One was more of a European Pale Lager.
• How about a decoction lager with 2x aroma hops?
• Just deleted one because it was a hard seltzer with fruit juice.

I could go on, but I hope you get it now.

 

RIP: Happoshu (on BeerAdvocate)