When you’re brewing your own beer at home, get to know the abbreviated versions of homebrewing terms to help read your recipes and directions, keep a basic measurement conversion chart handy, and check out the hierarchy of beers chart so you know what category and type of beer you want to homebrew and possibly enter into competition.
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Beer Style Guidelines Hierarchy
The following list has been compiled by the Beer Judge Certification Program and is used by the American Homebrewers Association for competitive purposes. This hierarchical list presents an overview of all the world's beer styles (along with Cider and Mead). All beers are categorized as Ale, Lager or Mixed Style; under each of these headings are listed all of the major beer styles (in capital letters) and their sub-styles.
ALE
ENGLISH PALE ALE
Standard Ordinary Bitter
Special / Best Bitter
Extra Special / Strong Bitter
SCOTTISH AND IRISH ALE
Scottish Light 60
Scottish Heavy 70
Scottish Export 80
Irish Red Ale
Scotch Strong Ale
AMERICAN ALE
American Pale Ale
American Amber Ale
American Brown Ale
ENGLISH BROWN ALE
Mild
Southern English Brown Ale
Northern English Brown Ale
PORTER
Brown Porter
English Porter
Baltic Porter
STOUT
Dry Stout
Sweet Stout
Oatmeal Stout
Foreign Extra Stout
American Stout
Russian Imperial Stout
INDIA PALE ALE
English IPA
American IPA
Imperial IPA
BELGIAN AND FRENCH ALE
Witbier
Belgian Pale Ale
Saison
Biere de Garde
SOUR ALE
Berliner Weisse
Flanders Red Ale
Straight (unblended) Lambic
Gueuze
Fruit Lambic
BELGIAN STRONG ALE
Belgian Blonde Ale
Belgian Dubbel
Belgian Tripel
Belgian Golden Strong Ale
Belgian Dark Strong Ale
STRONG ALE
Old Ale
English Barley Wine
American Barley Wine
LAGER
LIGHT LAGER
Lite American Lager
Standard American Lager
Premium American Lager
Munich Helles
Dortmunder Export
PILSENER
German Pilsener (Pils)
Bohemian Pilsener
Classic American Pilsener
EUROPEAN AMBER LAGER
Vienna Lager
Oktoberfest / Märzen
DARK LAGER
Dark American Lager
Munich Dunkel
Schwarzbier (black beer)
BOCK
Maibock / Helles Bock
Traditional Bock
Doppelbock
Eisbock
MIXED STYLE
LIGHT HYBRID BEER
Cream Ale
Blonde Ale
Kölsch
American Wheat or Rye
AMBER HYBRID BEER
Northern German Altbier
California Common Beer
Dusseldorf Altbier
GERMAN WHEAT AND RYE BEER
Weizen / Weiss bier
Dunkelweizen
Weizenbock
Roggenbier (Rye beer)
FRUIT BEER
SPICE / HERB / SPECIALTY BEER
Spice / Herb / Vegetable beer
Christmas / Winter / Specialty Spiced Beer
SMOKE FLAVORED and WOOD AGED BEER
Classic Rauchbier
Other Smoked Beer
Wood Aged Beer
SPECIALTY BEER
MEAD AND CIDER
TRADITIONAL MEAD
Dry Mead
Semi-sweet Mead
Sweet Mead
MELOMEL (FRUIT MEAD)
Cyser (apple Melomel)
Pyment (grape Melomel)
Other Fruit Melomel
OTHER MEAD
Metheglin (spiced Mead)
Braggot (barley Mead)
Open Category Mead
STANDARD CIDER and PERRY
Common Cider
English Cider
French Cider
Common Perry
Traditional Perry
SPECIALTY CIDER and PERRY
New England Cider
Fruit Cider
Apple Wine
Other Specialty Cider and Perry
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Homebrewing Abbreviation Slang
Quite a few technical (and wordy) homebrewing terms exist, so to make it easier to read homebrewing recipes and directions, terms have been abbreviated. Here’s a handy guide for homebrewing abbreviations:
| Abbreviation | What It Stands For |
|---|---|
| AAU | Alpha Acid Unit. A measurement of hop bittering potential. |
| ABV | Alcohol By Volume. One of two methods of expressing alcohol content in beer. (See ABW.) |
| ABW | Alcohol By Weight. One of two methods of expressing alcohol content in beer. (See ABV.) |
| BJCP | Beer Judge Certification Program. National organization for official homebrew judges. |
| DME | Dry Malt Extract. The spray-dried version of liquid malt extract. |
| DMS | Di-Methyl Sulfide. An off flavor and aroma reminiscent of cooked corn. |
| ESB | Extra Special Bitter. A medium-high gravity ale of British origin. |
| FG | Final Gravity. The measurement of gravity taken at the end of fermentation that allows the brewer to compute the alcohol content of beer. (See OG.) |
| FWH | First Wort Hopping. The practice of introducing bittering hops to the beer during the sparging / lautering phase of the mashing procedure. |
| HBU | Homebrew Bitterness Unit. A unit of measurement used by homebrewers to denote the amount of bittering in beer. |
| HSA | Hot Side Aeration. The unintentional exposure of the still-warm wort to oxygen that can lead to problems in your brew, not the least of which is premature staling. |
| HCU | Homebrew Color Unit. A crude method of measuring beer color devised for homebrewers. |
| IBU | International Bittering Unit. An international unit of measurement used by professional brewers to denote the amount of bittering in beer. |
| IPA | India Pale Ale. A highly hopped Pale Ale. |
| OG | Original Gravity. The measurement of gravity taken at the beginning of fermentation that allows the brewer to compute alcohol content of beer. (See FG.) |
| pH | Percent Hydrion (also potential hydrogen). A scale used to measure the acidity and alkalinity of a liquid. |
| RIS | Russian Imperial Stout. High gravity stout brewed for the Russian Imperial Court. |
| SRM | Standard Reference Measure. A measurement of beer color. |
| TSP | Tri-Sodium Phosphate. An effective sudsless, powdered cleanser often used to clean brewery equipment. |
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Basic Conversions for Homebrewing
In case you need the metric equivalents of basic measurements, keep this simple conversions guide close by when you’re brewing your own beer at home:
| Liquid Conversions | Mass Conversions |
|---|---|
| 1 teaspoon (tsp.) = 5 milliliters | 1 ounce (oz.) = 28 grams |
| 1 tablespoon (Tbsp.) = 15 milliliters | 1 pound (lb.) = 0.45 kilogram |
| 1 ounce (oz.) = 29.6 milliliters | |
| 1 cup (c.) = 237 milliliters |
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