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. 2017 Oct 5;12(10):e0185887. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185887

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