I was going to build a poll here, but couldn’t think of what to add other than a couple things that we might consider making their own styles in the future. Seems to be a lot of Italian pilsner and Japanese rice lagers popping up in recent days. I’ve been adding the latter as premium lager, but perhaps for now should be in specialty grain?
How about triple IPA/triple hazy IPA? Should we acknowledge those as styles at this point? Any other ideas?
Also not like I’m saying this is actually going to happen as I’m just some guy. Just for the sake of conversation…
I think “Imperial” covers double/triple/quadruple _______. It works for stouts and porters, and all separating them further will do is water down the top 50 of each category IMO.
If nothing else so that I can avoid them entirely. I remember ordering one once when they were just coming into style and telling the bartender “I think you poured the wrong beer, I ordered a stout…”
I know there’s a tag, but BA imperial stout might not be flavoured/pastry but it’s usually a damp barrel. It would be nice if just straight imperial stout were a style.
Is it too late to distinguish rustic/ mixed fermentation farmhouse from saison?
I’d personally love if barrel-aged stouts were a category. Like Spirit barrel-aged stout. If we really wanted later they could be split between boozes, but I think whiskey is the main barrel used in like 90% of the time. Only a few rum, gin or tequila barrel-aged beers out there, and most are bad anyway
It is kind of tragic that RateBeer, after all these years, has not yet discovered and adopted the easily defineable style “Low carb light / lite lager”. Having this separate would raise the standard of the remaining “Pale lager” category.
I’d just like to see a ‘flavored’ category for all individual styles. It’s so random now which styles do have a “-flavored” category and which don’t. And almost all beers are flavored nowadays.
