Mixed-Style Beer
Evaluated against its declared base styles, methods and ingredients. It must achieve harmony and balance while remaining pleasant to drink.
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BJCP designation
Overall Impression: Evaluated against its declared base styles, methods and ingredients. It must achieve harmony and balance while remaining pleasant to drink.
Entry Instructions: Specify the base style(s) and describe any special ingredients, processes or variations. Additional sensory profile details or vital statistics may be provided.
Style Comparison: For beers that cannot be entered in previously-listed styles first, or that combine existing styles in novel ways. A poorly-made, faulted beer should not be used to define a new style.
Vital Statistics: OG, FG, IBUs, SRM and ABV are not defined independently for this category – they vary with the declared base style. BJCP 2021.
Source: BJCP 2021 Style Guidelines, bjcp.org, retrieved 2026-09-13. Vital statistics are as published; descriptive text is condensed from the published guideline.
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Style comparison
Similar Styles
For beers that cannot be entered in previously-listed styles first, or that combine existing styles in novel ways. A poorly-made, faulted beer should not be used to define a new style.
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Keep exploring
- BJCP Guidelines: 34B (Mixed-Style Beer)
- Beer Judge Certification Program: BJCP Official Guidelines