Brewers Association announces 2013 Beer Style Guidelines
The Brewers Association (BA), Boulder, Colo., released its 2013 Beer Style Guidelines. This year’s edition defines two new beer styles and includes updated descriptive text for virtually all of the 142 included beer styles, BA says. The collaborative effort behind the 2013 version incorporates more than 100 suggestions from U.S. and international beer judges and experts, brewers and beer lovers, it adds.
This year, Adambier and Grätzer styles were added for the first time. Both are historic pre-Reinheitsgebot, smoky ale styles, with the former originating in Dortmund, Germany, and the latter brewed primarily in Poland, that are making a slow revival among U.S. and international brewers, the association says.