Table 3. Grouping of individual beer samples into beer style groups and fraction of craft beers.
Group | %ABV* | Styles | Number analysed | Number craft beers | Percentage Craft beers |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Non/low alcohol | < 3 | Pale lager, Low alcohol, Non alcoholic | 36 | 3 | 8 |
Pale Lager | 3–5 | Pilsener, helles lager, Adjunct lager, premium, Zwickel, California Common | 166 | 11 | 7 |
Strong Pale Lager | 6–14 | Strong Pale lager, Imperial Pils | 8 | - | 0 |
Pale Ale | 4–9 | Blond, Belgian Pale Ale, American Pale Ale, Amber Ale, Irish Ale, English Pale Ale, Mild Ale, Kölsch | 94 | 63 | 67 |
Strong Pale Ale | 9–15 | Tripel (Abbey, Trappist), Barley Wine (American, English), Strong Ale (Belgian, American, English) | 69 | 56 | 81 |
India Pale Ale | ≤ 7.5 | Bitter, Premium Bitter (ESB), India Pale Ale (Black, White) | 42 | 37 | 88 |
Double India Pale Ale | ≥ 7.5 | India Pale Ale (Imperial, Triple, Double) | 29 | 29 | 100 |
Dark lager | 3–5 | Schwarzbier, Dunkel | 28 | 1 | 4 |
Dark Ale | 6–9 | Old Ale, Scotch, Dubbel (abbey, Trappist) | 36 | 22 | 61 |
Strong Dark Ale | 9–13 | Quadrupel, Abt | 44 | 28 | 64 |
Stout | < 8 | Stout (Milk, Foreign, Oatmeal, Sweet), Porter | 54 | 40 | 74 |
Imperial Stout | ≥ 8 | Stout (Imperial, Export), Porter (Imperial, Baltic) | 126 | 123 | 98 |
Sour ales | 4–13 | Geuze, Lambic (Fruit, Faro, Unblended), Sour Ale, Gose, Wild Ale, Flanders Red, Flanders Oud Bruin, Berliner Weisse | 82 | 72 | 88 |
Fruit/Vegetable/Spice | 5–16 | Various styles | 37 | 25 | 68 |
Saison | 4–11 | Saison, Bière de Garde | 13 | 10 | 77 |
Smoked | 5–11 | Various styles | 16 | 12 | 75 |
Wheat | 5–8 | Weizen, Weizen (Dunkel, Bock), Wit, Belgian White, Wheat Ale | 42 | 14 | 33 |
Bock | 5–12 | Bock (Helles, Doppel, Dunkel, Lente) | 38 | 19 | 50 |
Eisbock | 9–40 | Eisbock | 6 | 5 | 83 |
African traditional | < 3 | Mqombothi, Sorghum | 34 | 33 | 97 |
TOTAL | 1000 | 589 | 59 |
*Percentage alcohol by volume