Let's Predict Future Beer Styles

"Juicy" stouts.

Not fruit juice, NE style hop juice

 

Nah. Quit being such an optimist.

 

That's just one in the set:

Light Mild
Routine Mild
Better Mild
Extra Better Mild
Bestest Mild

 

Imperial Maple Syrup, Peanut Butter, Oatmeal, Strong Ale, Farmhouse, Pale Ale, Lager

 

Hopefully ballast point didn't start a trend of fruity flavors. I can already see sour green apple....

 

Oatmeal Bacon Breakfast Stout
Hickory Smoked Bacon Double Imperial IPA

 

Please...let's not give the BJCP any ideas

 

My favorite brewery has a fascination with barrel aging their single and double IPA very often and it wrecks what were great beers for me. Overpowering bourbon.

 

Hash oil infused maple syrup imperial stouts

 

Trve Viking ale:

Smoked; brown; sour; made with any combination of grass seeds, flavored with primarily juniper... And ZERO hops

I guess rye would have to included as well... Because Vikings

 

I'd like to see the definition of beer condensed into a whole lot less "styles". There should be a clear unambiguous line between what is considered beer and what is just a concoction of modern malt alcohol production. Just producing a weak alcoholic beverage with flavorings and calling it beer just doesn't seem right to me.

 

Examples?

 

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/719/213650/
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24798/86621/
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29/104856/
And on and on

 

So Vodka is beer?

 

You missed mikes hard

 

For some inexplicable reason it's not in the database. Maybe because the manufacturer forgot the put the word beer or ale in the title. I'm sure they are kicking themselves for not naming it Mike's hard Lemonale"

 

We NEED some Quintuples.

 

One of my favourite Dutch brewers (Emelisse) made a Smoked Rye IPA and it was delicious!

 

Not legally, since a "Malt Beverage" ("the general name given in the Federal alcohol labeling regulations for all products made at a brewery with malted barley and hops. It includes things like beer, ale, lager, flavored malt beverages, and even 'near beer'") in the US is:

The TTB further notes:

Current regulations re: the additional alcohol from the flavorings, are:

As for which malt beverages/brewery products with added flavorings are considered "Beer" and which are considered "FMB's" on this website, that is up to the owners of the site. I guess if one objects to a particular product's listing, they should "Report an Update" on the beer's page.