Evolving GABF Style Guidelines

• There are now more “American-style” beers listed than beers from any other national origin.
• There are 35 subtypes listed under the catch-all “hybrid” category, more than lager subtypes (30)
• Bamberg gets a lot of love: four subtypes reference the city.  (No other city, including Munich, is listed more than twice)
• Countries now referenced as origin points for styles: England, Scotland, Ireland, US, Germany, France, Belgium, Poland, Netherlands, Australia, Czech Republic, Austria (sort of–Vienna lager), and Japan–plus “Baltic-style,” “Australasian,” “Latin American,” and “indigenous.”

The last thing I’ll leave you with is this statement in the preamble to the rules.  It is, more tha


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