Need to super categorise several beer styles.

Hello,

I recently consulted the "Best Beers by Styles Categories" ranking which counts 22 different super categories, each of them includes different beers styles all indexed in this web page: http://www.ratebeer.com/BeerStyles.asp.

My issue is that some other styles are not included in those ’super categories’ and I’d like to know your opinion on how to classify them.
The styles are ’Brown Ale’, ’Sour Red/Brown’, ’Bière de Garde’ and ’Kölsch’.
The ’super categories’ I’d like to put the styles in are the following:
Pale Lager
Bock, Strong Lager
Specialty
English Style Pale & Bitter
India Pale Ale
Double IPA
Low/Moderate Alcohol
Stout
Strong Stout
Strong Ale
Imperial, Baltic Porter
Porter
Sour Ales
Belgian Session
Belgian Strong
American Amber/ Pale
Wheat
Dark Lager
Cider & Perry
Traditional
Mead
Sake

Regards

Not sure what youre asking. Are you wanting to just see the best kolsch, the best brown ale, and the best sour red/brown? That’s pretty easy (just click on the name and it will take you to the best of list for that style).

http://www.ratebeer.com/beerstyles/kolsch/39/

http://www.ratebeer.com/beerstyles/brown-ale/15/

http://www.ratebeer.com/beerstyles/sour-red-brown/118/

No no. I’d like to know in which Super Category the Kolsch can get in. Is it a Wheat, a Porter, a Stout,...?

Where did you put Altbier in? Kölsch will be the same category

Originally posted by Koelschtrinker
Where did you put Altbier in? Kölsch will be the same category

Altbier is not present either in that ranking:
http://www.ratebeer.com/RateBeerBest/ByStyle_012014.asp

Originally posted by ironicman
Altbier is not present either in that ranking:
http://www.ratebeer.com/RateBeerBest/ByStyle_012014.asp

Alt, Kölsch and California Common are hybrid styles of ale and lager, so no logical supercategory needed: they are crossovers between supercategories, glueing the system together with a healthy dose of style-defying individuality.

Thanks for your answer bartlebier but what about those three other styles: ’Brown Ale’, ’Sour Red/Brown’, ’Bière de Garde’

Originally posted by ironicman
Thanks for your answer bartlebier but what about those three other styles: ’Brown Ale’, ’Sour Red/Brown’, ’Bière de Garde’

I know this page but I want to include those styles in the specific super categories I have mentionned.