# best-beer.com


## Pages

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- [Forum](https://best-beer.com/forum/): Ask questions, share recommendations and talk beer with other members: new releases, the styles you love, homebrewing, alcohol-free picks and the pubs worth visiting.
- [Community check-ins](https://best-beer.com/community/): Photos, ratings and short reviews from Best Beer members. Share what you are drinking, from one to five stars.
- [Join Best Beer](https://best-beer.com/join/): A free account lets you post in the forum, share photos of what you are drinking, rate beers and comment on other members' posts.
- [Saison](https://best-beer.com/styles/saison/): Saison is a pale, highly carbonated ale with a very dry finish.
- [Home](https://best-beer.com/): Clear guides to every major beer style, and shortlists of the bottles worth ordering.
- [Stouts & Porters](https://best-beer.com/styles/stouts-porters/): 4 styles in this family, each with its taste, strength, history and three bottles to try.
- [Wheat, Belgian & Sour](https://best-beer.com/styles/wheat-belgian-sour/): 8 styles in this family, each with its taste, strength, history and three bottles to try.
- [Ales & IPAs](https://best-beer.com/styles/ales-ipas/): 9 styles in this family, each with its taste, strength, history and three bottles to try.
- [Lagers](https://best-beer.com/styles/lagers/): 9 styles in this family, each with its taste, strength, history and three bottles to try.
- [Witbier](https://best-beer.com/styles/witbier/): Witbier, or Belgian white, is a pale, cloudy wheat ale spiced with coriander and dried orange peel.
- [West Coast IPA](https://best-beer.com/styles/west-coast-ipa/): West Coast IPA is the classic American IPA: clear, golden, dry and firmly bitter, with pine, grapefruit and resin from hops such as Cascade, Centennial, Simcoe and Columbus.
- [Tripel](https://best-beer.com/styles/tripel/): Tripel is a strong, golden Belgian abbey ale of 7.5% to 9.5% ABV.
- [Stout](https://best-beer.com/styles/stout/): Stout is a black ale made with roasted barley or roasted malt, which gives it a coffee-like bite. The family is wide.
- [Session IPA](https://best-beer.com/styles/session-ipa/): A session IPA is an India pale ale brewed to a lower strength, usually 3.5% to 5% ABV, so that you can drink several over an evening.
- [Schwarzbier](https://best-beer.com/styles/schwarzbier/): Schwarzbier means black beer. It is a dark lager with a gentle roasted flavor and a clean, dry finish.
- [Porter](https://best-beer.com/styles/porter/): Porter is a dark brown ale with flavors of chocolate, coffee and toast. It is smoother and less roasted than stout, with a medium body.
- [Pale ale](https://best-beer.com/styles/pale-ale/): Pale ale is a golden to amber ale with a noticeable but balanced hop character.
- [Milk stout](https://best-beer.com/styles/milk-stout/): Milk stout, also called sweet stout or cream stout, is a dark stout brewed with lactose, the sugar in milk.
- [Lambic](https://best-beer.com/styles/lambic/): Lambic is a sour beer from the countryside around Brussels, fermented by wild yeast and bacteria from the air instead of yeast added by the brewer.
- [IPA](https://best-beer.com/styles/ipa/): India pale ale is the style that drove the modern craft beer movement.
- [India pale lager](https://best-beer.com/styles/india-pale-lager/): India pale lager, or IPL, takes the heavy American hopping of an IPA and ferments it with lager yeast.
- [Imperial stout](https://best-beer.com/styles/imperial-stout/): Imperial stout, or Russian imperial stout, is a very strong, dark, intensely flavored stout of 8% to 12% ABV or more.
- [Imperial IPA](https://best-beer.com/styles/imperial-ipa/): Imperial IPA, also called double IPA, is an India pale ale brewed bigger in every direction: more malt, more alcohol and far more hops.
- [Hefeweizen](https://best-beer.com/styles/hefeweizen/): Hefeweizen is a hazy, golden wheat beer from Bavaria.
- [Hazy IPA](https://best-beer.com/styles/hazy-ipa/): Hazy IPA, also called New England IPA, is an India pale ale that is cloudy, full-bodied and packed with hop aroma but low in bitterness.
- [Gose](https://best-beer.com/styles/gose/): Gose is a tart, lightly salty German wheat beer brewed with coriander.
- [Belgian Dubbel](https://best-beer.com/styles/belgian-dubbel/): Dubbel is a reddish-brown Belgian ale developed by Trappist monks.
- [Brown ale](https://best-beer.com/styles/brown-ale/): Brown ale is a malt-led English style with flavors of nuts, toffee and light roast.
- [Bock](https://best-beer.com/styles/bock/): Bock is a strong lager with a deep malt flavor and little hop character. It ranges from amber to dark brown and from 6.3% to over 7% ABV.
- [blonde ale](https://best-beer.com/styles/blonde-ale/): Blonde ale is a pale, light-bodied ale with low bitterness and a soft, slightly fruity character.
- [Berliner Weisse](https://best-beer.com/styles/berliner-weisse/): Berliner Weisse is a pale, very light, tart wheat beer from Berlin.
- [Amber ale](https://best-beer.com/styles/amber-ale/): Amber ale is the middle of the beer world: more malt than a pale ale, more hops than a brown ale, and amber to copper in color.
- [Dunkel](https://best-beer.com/styles/dunkel/): Dunkel means dark in German, and Munich dunkel is the dark lager that Bavarians drank before pale beer existed.
- [Mexican lager](https://best-beer.com/styles/mexican-lager/): Mexican lager is the pale, light, very crisp lager of Corona, Modelo, Pacifico and Dos Equis.
- [American lager](https://best-beer.com/styles/american-lager/): American lager is a pale, light-bodied lager brewed with a share of corn or rice alongside barley malt.
- [Märzen](https://best-beer.com/styles/marzen/): Märzen is an amber lager with a rich, bready malt flavor and a clean, dry finish. The name means March beer.
- [Helles](https://best-beer.com/styles/helles/): Helles means pale, and Munich helles is the city's everyday golden lager.
- [Pilsner](https://best-beer.com/styles/pilsner/): Pilsner is a pale lager with a clean malt body and a firm, floral hop finish.
- [Blog](https://best-beer.com/blog/): Short, practical reads on choosing, storing and serving beer: styles explained, how to read a label, and what to buy.
- [Beer finder](https://best-beer.com/beer-finder/): Move the three sliders to describe the beer you feel like. We match it to the closest of 33 beer styles.
- [Beer styles](https://best-beer.com/styles/): 30 styles in four families. Each guide covers the taste, the history, how to serve it, food pairings and three bottles to try.
- [Privacy Policy](https://best-beer.com/privacy-policy/): What we collect when you use Best Beer, why we collect it, and the choices you have. Last updated: November 2026.


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