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Usually dark brown to black with a malty richness and may have toffee and caramel flavours as well a...

Old Ale

As with Brown Ales and American Brown Ales, malt is to the fore, often with roast and nutty flavours...

Red Ale

India Pale Ales hale from the famous brewing town of Burton Upon Trent and were so successful in the...

[IPAs]

Part of the Pale, Blond and Golden Ale style and closely related Premium Blond Pale and Premium Gold...

Pale Ale, Premium

A stronger version of IPA but with much crossover into the British and particularly New World styles...

Imperial IPA

Part of the Pale, Blond and Golden Ale style and closely related Session Pale and Session Golden Ale...

Blond Ale, Session

British IPAs tend to be heavily hopped with traditional UK varieties to give earthy and peppery flav...

British IPA

Part of the Pale, Blond and Golden Ale style and closely related Session Pale and Session Blond Ales...

Golden Ale, Session

<<< coming soon >>> Malt is to the fore and may impart nut-like flavours, although...

Brown Ale

Despite the apparent oxymoron Black Pale Ales do exist, Pale here is used to describe a type of ale...

Black IPA

Throughout the second half of the 20th century Bitter was the most common beer style in many pubs an...

Bitters, Session

This is a wide ranging beer style which covers a variety of beer types which are mostly darker than...

Brown, Red and Black Ales, Old Ales and Strong Milds

Black Ales are often referred to as Black IPAs but the alcohol level is too low for CAMRA’s IPA cate...

Black Ale

A very popular beer style for cask conditioned beer with most brewers having at least one example in...

[Pale, Blond and Golden Ales, Session]

Stouts should be black with flavours and aromas derived from the use of roasted malts. Session Stout...

[Stouts, Session]

A rich ruby black to jet black beer with with intense flavours of roasted malt and barley. Expect de...

Imperial Stout

Part of the Pale, Blond and Golden Ale style and closely related Premium Pale and Premium Golden Ale...

Blond Ale, Premium

As part of the Stout family Oyster Stouts are usually black with flavours and aromas derived from th...

Oyster Stout

New World IPAs are hop forward beers where the malt is very much in the background when compared to...

New World IPA

Part of the Pale, Blond and Golden Ale style and closely related Premium Pale and Premium Blond Ales...

Golden Ale, Premium

Part of the Pale, Blond and Golden Ale style and closely related Session Blond and Session Golden Al...

Pale Ale, Session

As part of the Stout family Milk Stouts are usually black with flavours and aromas derived from the...

Milk Stout

As part of the Stout family Oatmeal Stouts are usually black with flavours and aromas derived from t...

Oatmeal Stout

A very popular beer style for cask conditioned beer with most brewers having at least one example in...

Pale, Blond and Golden Ales, Premium

As with conventional Brown Ales Malt is to the fore and may impart nut-like flavours, although there...

American Brown Ale

Typically Strong Mild is brown to black in colour and as the name suggests are stronger than convent...

Strong Mild