I think we can argue for a long time about the session/ regular / imperial.
Some styles often have those 3 but don’t have dedicated styles for them… Brown Ales, NEIPAs, Cream Ales, Black IPAs
Problem for the IPAs, by creating styles based on abv AND by styles based on look/taste (Black, NEIPA and Regular) vs (Session and Imperial), people will always add them randomly between those category…
For Brown Ales and Cream Ale, they normally put sessions and Imperials all together in the same Brown Ale style without problem…because they aren’t available to choose.
It would be so easy if we didn’t have Session and Imperial styles as choice to begin with and they would automatically be classified as “Session” or “Imperial” based on the abv entered for the beer…but again, we don’t always know the abv when adding a beer, or people just leave the abv field blank…
I feel we might as well create a separate imperial neipa caregory… 50% of Other Half’s output is just that. If we can differentiate IPA from DIPA why not with the haze too. Or we can do ehat we did with black IPA and and jist throw it all in one caregory…
That’s quite outdated, a number of those were deleted, and quite a few more were added.
I don’t suggest RB adds all of them though as some are so rare it seems pointless, others are branching out into very new trends (IPA - Brut, for example).
I don’t know. I reckon IPA should be the main style, the rest are sub styles. Perhaps have a drop down menu listing the subs so you can click on one when you’re adding a new IPA.
I was literally just editing my post to call back to an earlier post (now lost in this thread) where this was suggested, would be a nice neat and tidy way to do it but probably far more dev work. I’m pleased enough with the style additions/renames that have taken place so far. I do wish for more, but not as many as Untappd.
I do think stout should be expanded. Whatever the non-derogatory term for “pastry stout” should have its own style I think.
Also how about adding IPA - Imperial NEIPA, etc, and then counter than by making all Irish and Scottish Ales Bitters, and Pale Ale - English also getting ditched.
Can you name me one thing in common between those two clearly distinct styles apart from their initial and trailing letters? OK, they’re both foreign, so that’s 3 things in common, so they must be the same.
Calling Altbier & Kölsh Anglo-American Ales seems straight-up bizarre just because they are top fermenting. Pretty sure everyone can agree on them being Germanic.
Lervig’s Liquid Sex Robot is now an IPA - Imperial / Double. The brewers description says it’s a DIPA. The description on here says NEIPA. It offers up quite a bit more bitterness than some other NEIPAs, but it’s as hazy and fruity sweet as many of the good ones. So - is it correctly filed as a DIPA because, well, that’s what the brewer says? Or is it a DNEIPA?
