Aussie Beer Styles

Contents

  1. Aussie Beer Styles
  2. Introduction
  3. Australian Beers
  4. Australian Ingredients

Introduction

With Australian home brewers/judges taking the BJCP course as of 2005, there has been a fair bit of discussion of the BCJP guidelines in various forums. Now at this point in time, the BCJP guidelines do not include Australian styles1.

In a nutshell, a goal of these pages is to provide a set of style guide resources that could be used as the "aussie addendum" to the BJCP style guidelines. Regardless of they ever actually make it into the BJCP style guidelines, hopefully they can be of assistance to those comp organisers using that format in Australia.

In another sense, I wouldn't mind seeing an extra chapter in Ray Daniels book: Designing Great Beers called "Designing Great Aussie Beers". This kind of resource is more than a style guide, a much expanded version with brewing tips and current interpretations from national level competitions.

Now I will say from the start that I am not an expert on Australian Beer History apart from drinking my fair share of these brews. Hopefully though, this forum will gain contributions from genuine experts in this field.

Australian Beers

I guess even the list of beers that could qualify as uniquely Australian may be a bit up for grabs. I am going to start with a list that has been proposed in various places:

  1. Sparkling Ale - style guide.

  2. Australian Pale Ale - style guide

  3. Australian Lager

Australian Ingredients

  1. PrideOfRingwood - I'll bet you didn't know these originated right here in Ringwood, east of Melbourne.

  2. "Coopers" yeast

PaulSorenson

  • 1 Apart from the reference to Foster's Lager as a commercial example of "Standard American Lager"

AussieStyles (last edited 2006-01-27 11:37:48 by PaulSorenson)