Contest Style Categories

Byggvir's Big Beer Cup is a style appropriate event, only open to historically appropriate styles. (To understand why styles are or are not included, read about the criteria for selecting these styles - Criteria for Selecting the Beer Styles included in Byggvir's Big Beer Cup)

Styles marked with a numeric-only style number are Byggvir defined styles, while styles marked with a numeric-alpha style number are defined by the BJCP Guidelines.  

The link in the Style Name column will take you to this site's style definition, and will be the comprehensive listing for that non-BJCP styles.  The link in the BJCP Style Link column will take you to the published BJCP Style Guidelines website - these definitions will be used for the Big Beer Cup Judging.

Here is the comprehensive Style list for Byggvir's Big Beer Cup, the content are sortable by clicking on the column titles:

Style Categorysort icon
01 - Non-Hopped Historic
02 - Hopped Historic
05A - Maibock/Helles Bock
05B - Traditional Bock
05C - Doppelbock
05D - Eisbock
06C - Kolsch
07A - Northern German Altbier
07C - Dusseldorf Altbier
08A - Standard/Ordinary Bitter
08B - Special/Best/Premium Bitter
08C - Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale)
09A - Scottish Light 60/-
09B - Scottish Heavy 70/-
09C - Scottish Export 80/-
09D - Irish Red Ale
09E - Strong Scotch Ale
11A - Mild
11B - Southern English Brown
11C - Northern English Brown Ale
12A - Brown Porter
12B - Robust Porter
12C - Baltic Porter
13A - Dry Stout
13B - Sweet Stout
13C - Oatmeal Stout
15A - Weizen/Weissbier
15B - Dunkelweizen
15C - Weizenbock
15D - Roggenbier (German Rye Beer)
16A - Witbier
16B - Belgian Pale Ale
16C - Saison
16D - Bière de Garde
16E - Belgian Specialty Ale
17A - Berliner Weisse
17B - Flanders Red Ale
17C - Flanders Brown Ale/Oud Bruin
17D - Straight (Unblended) Lambic
17E - Gueuze
17F - Fruit Lambic
18A - Belgian Blond Ale
18B - Belgian Dubbel
18C - Belgian Tripel
18D - Belgian Golden Strong Ale
18E - Belgian Dark Strong Ale
19A - Old Ale
19B - English Barleywine
20A - Fruit Beer
21A - Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
22A - Classic Rauchbier
22B - Other Smoked Beer
22C - Wood-Aged Beer
23A - Specialty Beer
24A - Dry Mead
24B - Semi-sweet Mead
24C - Sweet Mead
25A - Cyser (Apple Melomel)
25B - Pyment (Grape Melomel)
25C - Other Fruit Melomel
26A - Metheglin
26B - Braggot
26C - Open Category Mead
27A - Common Cider
27B - English Cider
27C - French Cider
27D - Common Perry
27E - Traditional Perry
28A - New England Cider
28B - Fruit Cider
28C - Applewine
28D - Other Specialty Cider/Perry