Modifying the Roll-a-Style List

So ... after posting Roll-a-Style 9: 26D. Belgian Dark Strong Ale, I decided to look a little closer at the 2021 BJCP Style Guidelines.

First, I had never known exactly how many individual beer styles were listed in the guidelines, so I counted. 

If I counted correctly, there are 108 styles, and I've brewed 79 of them (actually, as I type this, I have not brewed the Belgian Dark Strong Ale, but once I brew it I will have completed 79).

I've mentioned that there are some styles I'm not really interested in brewing, and so I left those styles off my Roll-a-Style list. Most of these are sour beer styles, but as it turns out, a couple were ones I just didn't look closely at and thus didn't really understand.

 

As a result, I actually decided to give myself "credit" for 3 new styles.

I decided that 

• Caliente Fuerte Mexican Stout is an example of 30D. Specialty Spice Beer
• Wetta Blonde Ale actually can be considered a 31B. Alternative Sugar Beer
• Pompously Illegitimate Red Ale satisfies 34A. Commercial Specialty Beer

Ok. Cool. I've added those to 2024 Update on the 2021 BJCP Goal.

Category 27 Historical Beer is sort of a unique category in that they list all the "Historical Styles" as 27A. So, technically, the fact that I've brewed any of those Historical Styles, I've brewed the one style in that category.

Because off this, I decided to remove Roggenbier, London Brown Ale, and Lichtenhainerg from the list until I've gotten that list down some (similar to the decision I made about 21B. Specialty IPA that I mentioned in 2025 Roll-a-Style List)

And since I removed beers, I decided to add a few in that I had decided to "skip" before:

• 28A. Brett Beer
• 28B. Mixed-Fermentation Sour Beer
• 29C. Specialty Fruit Beer
• 33B. Specialty Wood-Aged Beer

Now my Roll-a-Style list looks like this:

Number	Beer Style
1	9B. Eisbock
2	3C. Czech Amber Lager
3	5A. German Leichtbier
4	9C. Baltic Porter
5	10C. Weizenbock
6	12C. English IPA
7	13B. British Brown Ale
8	28B. Mixed-Fermentation Sour Beer
9	32A. Classic Style Smoked Beer
10	29C. Specialty Fruit Beer
11	10A. Weissbier
12	29D. Grape Ale
13	33B. Specialty Wood-Aged Beer
14	6B. Rauchbier
15	16C. Tropical Stout
16	26C. Belgian Tripel
17	16D. Foreign Extra Stout
18	22D. Wheatwine
19	17C. Wee Heavy
20	17D. English Barley Wine

My "Bench" now includes:

• 28A. Brett Beer
• Historical Beer: Roggenbier
• Historical Beer: London Brown Ale
• Historical Beer: Lichtenhainer
• Specialty IPA: Belgian IPA
• Specialty IPA: White IPA
• Specialty IPA: Brut IPA
• SheppyBrew Random Recipe

There are still a significant number of styles I've left off, and I may add them in later. I guess we'll see.

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