How many styles/sub-categories have you brewed?

In your homebrewing 'career', how many different sub-categories have you brewed? I just started brewing last year and after getting hooked, I decided that I wanted to brew as many styles as I possibly could this year. Mostly for the expereince of creating recipes for them, but also so that I could get a feel for the overall impression of a lot of styles that I have difficulty finding locally.

Here's my tally as best as I can recall from my brewing notes:

1. American Pale Ale
2. American Amber Ale
3. American Wheat
4. American Stout
5. Belgian Pale Ale
6. Belgian Dark Strong Ale
7. Belgian Golden Strong Ale
8. Biere de Garde
9. Belgian Wit
10. Belgian wit (Imperial)
11. Ordinary Bitter
12. ESB
13. Old Ale
14. Mild
15. Northern English Brown Ale
16. Southern English Brown Ale
17. Sweet Stout (Imperial)
18. Dry Stout
19. Scotch Ale
20. Scottish 80 Shilling
21. Irish Red
22. Hefeweizen
23. Dunkelweizen
24. Weizenbock
25. Roggenbier
26. Blonde Ale
27. Cream Ale
28. Light American Lager
29. American IPA
30. Imperial IPA
31. Robust Porter

I'll be brewing a Brown Porter and an RIS on Friday, with a Baltic Porter and American Barleywine to be brewed soon. If I count Friday's brews that will put me at 33 total.

Dang, I didn't realize that I'd brewed so many styles until I put it all down in writing!

You are a brewing stud Ohio. I definately have aspirations to brew more styles, but instead have kept my minimal production focused on beers that I can use as daily drinkers. Someday there will be a belgian trippel aging in 750ml corked bottles, but probably not in the near future.

Ive only been brewing a few months so not so many styles yet. It seems almost every brew I make is something different so I'm sure I will have made them all before it is over with. So far the only repeats are stouts since that is the style I like best, but I'm still looking for that perfect recipe.

OK here we go
Irish Stout.
English Stout
American Brown
American Pale Ale
American Wheat.
Braggot
Mead
Metheglin
Fruit Beer/Spiced Beer (pumpkin)
North English Brown Ale
South English Brown Ale
English IPA
Strong Scotch Ale
Dubbel
Specialty Beer (GaP)

I think thats it. Not including a 2 Apfelweins

I'm in the 7 - 15 group...but just for the record, Awesome stand ankle high to me and looks up my grass skirt and hopes to someday grow up to wash my bottles.
1. Show Mead
2. Braggot
3. Melomel
4. Pyment
5. Fruit beer
6. APA
7. IPA
8. Dry Stout
9. Sweet Stout.
10. Coffee Stout.
11. Dunkelweizen
12. Weissbier
13. Kolsch
14. Cream Ale
15. Apfelwein.


This is just this year right?
That's all I'm counting, cause I'll go over my vote now that I start to count....

I've done 11 styles, but I've done (or will have done by the end of this month) all of them twice. As much as I'm intrigued by the depth and richness of beer history and diversity, I'm also interested in not only nailing down a style (and I'm not even close) but also exploring its diversity and nuances. That can only be done by repeating a style multiple times.

It's not like I have any kind of grand plan, but as I gain experience I try to go back to some of my earlier beers and redo the recipe and/or style to apply what I've learned since then.

Chad

McKBrew said:

You are a brewing stud Ohio. I definately have aspirations to brew more styles, but instead have kept my minimal production focused on beers that I can use as daily drinkers. Someday there will be a belgian trippel aging in 750ml corked bottles, but probably not in the near future.

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Not even close. Just because I brewed them all doesn't mean that they were all drinkable. If I create a recipe and it's a keeper I try to reproduce it. If it blows I start over and try it again.

Most of these styles I've only done once. I've done 70 or so batches, so more than half of my brewing has been focusing on styles that I want to try to nail down (Amber, APA, IPA, robust porter, IIPA). Of the 25 or so batches I've done this year I've probably done 16 or so different styles. Eventually I'll get back to rebrewing and tweaking them, but like I said in the OP, I wanted to expand into different styles to find different techniques.

This was not meant to be a brag post. I apologize if it came across that way, that certainly was not my intent.

I'm at 17 styles right now, so yes, I am awesome.

1. American Amber
2. American Brown
3. American IPA
4. American Pale Ale
5. American Wheat
6. Brown Porter
7. Classic American Pilsner
8. Cream Ale
9. Dry Stout
10. Fruit Beer
11. IIPA
12. Northern English Brown
13. Schwarzbier
14. Scottish Export 80/-
15. Sweet Stout
16. Vienna Lager
17. Weizen/Weissbier

I guess if I count Ed's Apfelwein (applewine) and the raspberry and blueberry wheats that I've done for SWMBO that puts me at 35 counting what I'm brewing on Friday.

Man I'm pathetic.

I picked 16-30. I've made at least 20 BJCP styles, not including fruit/ vegetable/ spice/ smoke specialty beers. Not all were perfectly within style, but I'd say they were all recognizable at least.

I love the cr@p out of beer, especially the wide variety out there. When practical/ in season, I try to make every other batch a new recipe, and preferably, a style I haven't brewed before. I move fairly often, so I haven't brewed too many long-agers (can't wait to settle some place for several years so I can do barley wine, gueze, et al.). I've also made some beers that intentionally or accidentally didn't fit any style too well.

kaptain_karma said:

I picked 16-30. I've made at least 20 BJCP styles, not including fruit/ vegetable/ spice/ smoke specialty beers. Not all were perfectly within style, but I'd say they were all recognizable at least.

I love the cr@p out of beer, especially the wide variety out there. When practical/ in season, I try to make every other batch a new recipe, and preferably, a style I haven't brewed before. I move fairly often, so I haven't brewed too many long-agers (can't wait to settle some place for several years so I can do barley wine, gueze, et al.). I've also made some beers that intentionally or accidentally didn't fit any style too well.

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I can certainly understand that. I have an Old Ale and a Biere de Garde that I brewed 2 months ago and won't touch until at least April in order to get them ready to send into NHC '09.

Here's to you being able to brew some brews that require long term aging.

6B. Blonde Ale
8A. Standard/Ordinary Bitter
9D. Irish Red Ale
10A. American Pale Ale
12B. Robust Porter
13A. Dry Stout
14C. Imperial IPA
16A. Witbier
18C. Belgian Tripel
21A. Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer

Wow, yeah, I never bothered to put it all down on paper before, but...damn. I started brewing 25 months ago.

:rockin:

1. 1D Munich Helles
2. 2B Bohemian Pilsner
3. 3A Vienna Lager
4. 4B Munich Dunkel
5. 5A Maibock / Helles Bock
6. 5B Traditional Bock
7. 6B Blond Ale
8. 8A Standard/Ordinary Bitter
9. 8B Special/Best/Premium Bitter
10. 8C Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale)
11. 9D Irish Red Ale
12. 9E Scotch Strong Ale
13. 10A American Pale Ale
14. 11B Southern English Brown
15. 11C Northern English Brown
16. 12A Brown Porter
17. 12B Robust Porter
18. 12C Baltic Porter
19. 13A Dry Stout
20. 13C Oatmeal Stout
21. 13D Foreign Extra Stout
22. 13E American Stout
23. 13E Russian Imperial Stout
24. 14B American IPA
25. 14C Imperial IPA
26. 15A Weizen/Weissbier
27. 15B Dunkelweizen
28. 15C Weizenbock
29. 16A Witbier
30. 16C Saison
31. 16D Biere de Garde
32. 16E Belgian Specialty Ale
33. 17B Flanders Red Ale
34. 17F Fruit Lambic
35. 18B Belgian Dubbel
36. 18C Belgian Tripel
37. 18E Belgian Dark Strong Ale
38. 19A Old Ale
39. 19C American Barleywine
40. 20 Fruit Beer
41. 21A Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
42. 21B Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer
43. 22B Other Smoked Beer
44. 22C Wood-Aged Beer
45. 23 Specialty beer
46. 27 Standard Cider and Perry

I having such a dejavue right now...here's what I got off the top of my head

5A. Maibock/Helles Bock
6A. Cream Ale
6B. Blonde Ale
8A. Standard/Ordinary Bitter
10B. American Amber Ale
10C. American Brown Ale
12A. Brown Porter
12B. Robust Porter
13A. Dry Stout
13B. Sweet Stout
20. Fruit Beer
21. SPICE / HERB / VEGETABLE BEER
23. SPECIALTY BEER

I rebrew a lot of my favorites, and have made a few fruit, or spice beers, and a few different porters or stouts or ambers, but I THINK these are the categories I have brewed in so far....

Plus apfelwein, and a regular mead and a peach mead.

I've never brewed a stout, or a fruit beer, or a saison and of course, no sours for me. I think I got most of the rest, though. I do far less lagers than ales, but I've still done quite a few styles of lagers, too.

I put 16+ because I don't think I want to count them.

35. woot.

1. 3B Oktoberfest
2. 6B Blonde Ale
3. 6D American Wheat or Rye
4. 7C Dusseldorf Altbier
5. 8A Ordinary Bitter
6. 8C Extra Special Bitter
7. 9D Irish Red Ale
8. 9E Strong Scotch Ale
9. 10A American Pale Ale
10. 10B American Amber Ale
11. 10C American Brown Ale
12. 12C Robust Porter
13. 13B Sweet Stout
14. 13C Oatmeal Stout
15. 13E American Stout
16. 13F Russian Imperial Stout
17. 14B American IPA
18. 14C Imperial IPA
19. 15C Weizenbock
20. 16A Witbier
21. 16E Belgian Specialty Ale
22. 17A Berliner Weisse
23. 18C Belgian Tripel
24. 18E Belgian Dark Strong Ale
25. 19C American Barleywine
26. 21A Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
27. 22B Other Smoked Beer
28. 24A Dry Mead
29. 24C Sweet Mead
30. 25A Cyser
31. 25C Other Fruit Melomel
32. 26B Braggot
33. 27A Common Cider
34. 28B Fruit Cider
35. 28C Applewine

I am teh n00b ZOMG!

American Pale Ale
Red Ale
Blonde Ale

3 styles.... I gots some work to do.

I just started AG a little under a year ago and I've brewed 27 Batches and I've only rebrewed the same style three times. (Kolsch, Wheat, Blonde.)

I was just thinking of this, that I'm in the experimental stage and will soon retrench to the few styles I like. Except I can't seem to fit them in. For instance I really liked Yooper's Steam Beer but I've got my brewing schedule mapped out til after January and it's not in there.

Clearly I'm not drinking enough.

Rudeboy

Been brewing for six months now. Wow, not bad. *pats self on back*

American Pale Ale (x3)
Irish Red (x2)
Hefeweizen
Blonde Ale
Belgian Pale Ale
Belgian Witbier
Cream Ale
Pilsner
Munich Helles
American Barleywine
Belgian Tripel

I was curious so I just subtracted from the long list's of others

1. German Pilsner
2. Bohemian Pilsner
3. Vienna Lager
4. Traditional Bock
5. Standard/Ordinary Bitter
6. Scotch Strong Ale
7. American Pale Ale
8. Brown Porter
9. Robust Porter
10.Dry Stout
11.Oatmeal Stout
12.American Stout
13.Russian Imperial Stout
14.American IPA
15.Weizen/Weissbier
16.Saison
17.Belgian Specialty Ale
18 Belgian Dark Strong Ale
19.American Barleywine
20.Standard Cider
21.Alt
22.Kolsch
23.Standard American Lager

I've done about 1/2 of those that you listed, but some of them it would never occur to me to try and brew them again. Other styles I brew a couple times a month - probably every other weekend.

17 for me. Not being able to lager hurt my final tally. I never realized how many different wheat recipes I made...