Specialty IPA
Recognizable as an IPA by balance – a hop-forward, bitter, dryish beer – with something else present to distinguish it from the standard categories.
Specialty Fruit Beer
An appealing combination of fruit, sugar, and beer, but still recognizable as beer.
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Scottish Light Ale
A malt-focused, generally caramelly beer with perhaps a few esters and occasionally a butterscotch aftertaste. Hops only to balance and support the malt. The malt character can range from dry and grainy to rich, toasty, and caramelly, but is never roasty and especially never has a peat smoke character. Traditionally the darkest of the Scottish ales, sometimes nearly black but lacking any burnt, overtly roasted character.
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Scottish Heavy Ale
A malt-focused, generally caramelly beer with perhaps a few esters and occasionally a butterscotch aftertaste. Hops only to balance and support the malt. The malt character can range from dry and grainy to rich, toasty, and caramelly, but is never roasty and especially never has a peat smoke character.
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Scottish Export Ale
A malt-focused, generally caramelly beer with perhaps a few esters and occasionally a butterscotch aftertaste. Hops only to balance and support the malt. The malt character can range from dry and grainy to rich, toasty, and caramelly, but is never roasty and especially never has a peat smoke character.
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Schwarzbier
A dark German lager with a paradoxical character—black or very dark brown in color, yet crisp and clean in flavor. Schwarzbiers deliver dark grain and subtle roast character without the harshness or bitterness of stouts or porters. The roast character is sophisticated and refined, balanced by clean malt and restrained hopping.
Saison | Corbeau Rouge
Saison means "season" in French, referring to the beer's original purpose: a low-gravity provision beer brewed in winter for seasonal farm workers. The term encompasses tremendous stylistic variation—from low-gravity table saisons (3.5-5.0% ABV) to powerful super saisons (7.0-9.5% ABV). What unites saisons is their essential character: dry, refreshing, highly attenuated, with prominent yeast and hop character. These beers represent the rustic, rough-around-edges opposite of modern refined brewing.
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Sahti
A sweet, heavy, strong traditional Finnish farmhouse beer usually with rye and juniper, and a banana-clove yeast character.
Rye IPA | Rojo Amarillo
A hop focused, bitter American ale with moderately high alcohol and complex spicy malt notes from rye additions.
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Roggenbier
A rye-based variant of Dunkles Weissbier, featuring a greater body and light finishing hops, with bready and peppery flavor, a creamy body, and a dry, grainy finish complemented by weizen yeast characteristics.