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Medium-bodied American style beer
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Any beer (ale, lager, etc) flavored with berries
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Hard beverage made from apples or other fruits
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Refreshingly sweet American style beer
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Unfiltered German wheat beer
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More alcohol and hops than traditional ales
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Beer produced by spontaneous fermentation
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Light version of a brewer's lager
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Cheap beer with higher alcohol content
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Pale ale developed in Pilsen, Bohemia
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Dark beer brewed with heavily roasted malts
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Pale ale with high ABV and roasted malt flavor
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Dark brown to black color and strong roasted flavor
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Beer brewed by Trappist Monks
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Cloudy and smooth; a good summer beer
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BEER STYLES
Beer, it’s not just for breakfast anymore. As the oldest alcoholic beverage, beer
is ingrained in world culture and continues to be the most widely consumed
beverage after water and tea, two drinks notoriously low in alcohol.
But there’s more to beer than just light or dark, ale or lager, draft, bottle or can.
Beer can be a complex beverage to be enjoyed alone or paired with food, but it's
also just fun to drink as many as you can and see what happens.
The reputation of American beer suffered during the 1970s and ‘80s as options
were limited and low alcohol, low flavor light beers dominated the market. The
microbrew revolution of the 1990s and into today has significantly restored the
world’s opinion of American beer and has given us drinkers diversity and a
stocked fridge. Beer snobs the world over will tell you what to drink, but as long
as you enjoy your beer of choice, then drink up and enjoy.