Style trends Poll April 2020 (totally unofficial)

Where would you class beers advertised as SMOOTHIE SOUR

  • Sour / Wild Beer - Flavored
  • Berliner Weisse - Flavored
  • Sour / Wild Beer - Smoothie Sour

0 voters

https://www.ratebeer.com/tag/smoothie/

Where would you class beers advertised as PASTRY STOUT

  • Stout - Flavored
  • Stout - Imperial Flavored
  • Stout - Pastry

0 voters

https://www.ratebeer.com/tag/pastry-stout/

Where would you class beers advertised as TRIPLE IPA

  • IIPA / DIPA - Imperial / Double IPA
  • IIIPA / TIPA - Triple IPA

0 voters

https://www.ratebeer.com/tag/triple-ipa/

Where would you class beers advertised as WHITE STOUT

  • Flavored - Other
  • Stout - White

0 voters

https://www.ratebeer.com/tag/white-stout/

Where would you class beers advertised as WEIZENBOCK

  • Bock - Weizenbock
  • Weissbier - Weizenbock

0 voters

Where would you class beers advertised as 0.5% IPA

  • Low / No-Alcohol Beer
  • ISA - Session IPA

0 voters

Where would you class beers advertised as Non-Brussel Spontaneous Fermented Beer

  • Lambic
  • Sour / Wild Beer

0 voters

Based on your own experiences, do you consider a WILD BEER / BRETT BEER and a SOUR BEER (ex: Lactobacillus-based) as the same style

  • Yes
  • No

0 voters

Based on your own experiences, do you think those 3 beers have a similar profile? (for a side-by-side comparison)

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/de-garde-the-peach/375630/

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/side-project-blanc-de-blancs/289376/

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/funky-fluid-gelato-passionfruit-mango-nectarine-lime/819028/

  • Yes
  • No

0 voters

Some confusing questions. Especially the one with brett. Outside of the 100% brett beers (which are never wild beers and shouldn’t be sour, since brett is not sour!), it is really rare to find a wild beer that is not both lacto and brett?!

The first two questions have some clear issues too.

1.The choice between the first two is determined mostly by the base beer. A Smoothie Sour can technically be either of those two.

  1. The choice betweed Stout - Flavored and Stout - Imperial Flavored isn’t related to the beer being Pastry or not, it depends on the strength etc. Should’ve been two choices in the poll - Stout - Flavored (Imperial) vs. Stout - Pastry in essence.
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There should not even be any doubt of where a Weizenbock needs to be listed… Do we know any traditional Bockbier brewed with wheat?

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Surely this depends on the ABV.

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Why not add:

Low Alcohol IPA

Low Alcohol Dark

“Smoothie Sour” is not an advertising term that exists where I live. Although I’m sure I know what you’re talking and those beers do exist here.

I would probably categorize it as “Sour - Flavored” because that’s what it is.

The styles were all a bit half-hearted. It’s like they got halfway through and got bored. I.e. why no IPA - Red Imperial.