Beers are classified into beer styles according to the fermentation method used. For Belgian beers we notice four types of fermentation: bottom, top, spontaneous and mixed.
-- Flanders Open Data Portal
Tripel (7 - 9 vol.%) is often a relatively strong, golden beer with a malty to slightly sweet taste, sometimes with spices (e.g. Westmalle, Karmeliet, Brugse Tripel, etc.). ...
White beer or wheat beer is usually an unfiltered, cloudy beer of which the mash contains 30 to 50% of wheat. Usually coriander and orange peel are added for a ...
Blonde Beers (4 - 7 vol.%) usually have a moderate alcohol content and are slightly malty to slightly sweet with a bitter aftertaste (e.g. Maneblusser, Smiske Nature-Ale, Augustijn Blond, etc.). ...
Strong blonde beers (7 - 9,5 vol.%) are different from triple beers because of their rich head and slightly bitter taste (e.g. Duvel, Hapkin, Omer, Gentse Strop, etc.). ...
Amber Beers are brewed with a mixture of pale and amber malts. ...
Brown or dark beers (4 - 7 vol.%), refers to darker, slightly sweet beers with a flavour of liquorice, candy, raisin and sometimes a slightly burnt finish (e.g. Witkap Pater, ...
Strong dark beers (7 - 9,5 vol.%) are a group of dark beers with a high alcohol content. Usually these beers have a sweet to slightly burnt flavour (e.g. Gouden ...
Barley wine (9,5 vol.% and more) is a strong, alcoholic variety of blonde, amber or dark beer. ...
Spéciale belge (4,8 – 5,5 vol.%) is an authentic, Belgian beer style that was created in 1905 as a response to the German pilsner beers and English imported beers that ...
Bière brut (11 - 11.5 vol.%) is a strong beer that is aged like a champagne. The 75-cl bottles are regularly rotated a quarter turn and slightly tilted until all ...
Fruit beer (2,5 – 6 vol.%) are beers flavoured with fruit, fruit juice or fruit extract. Traditionally sour cherries are steeped in young beer for a few months. Fruit beers ...
Stout originates from the U.K. or Ireland and is typically a dark beer with a slightly burnt/roasted flavour. A stout can be sweet (milk stout, e.g. Pony Stout) or bitter ...
Scotch is a beer style related to stout, characterized by a touch of caramel. ...
Pils (4,5 to 5,5 vol.%) is a golden, clear beer with a softly bitter taste. Also called pilsener or pilsner it owes its name to the Czech city of Pilsen ...
Trappist is the name of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, also known as the Trappist Order. The order takes its name from La Trappe Abbey, located in ...
Abbey beer is also a collective denominator (so not a specific beer type) for beers where the brand name refers to an existing or dissolved Norbertine or Benedictine abbey. The ...
Those terms originate from a custom in the Middle Ages. The normal (ordinary) beer was named ‘single’ and was drunk by the ordinary laborers and monks. This beer was good ...
Lambic is a flat, sour wheat beer which fermented with airborne yeast and aged on wooden barrels. Traditionally, young and old lambic are blended with each other and then re-fermented ...
Oude geuze (5 - 7 vol.%) is a blend of spontaneously fermented lambic beers of different ages, the oldest being at least 3 years old and the average at least ...
Faro is a sweetened low-alcohol beer made from a blend of lambic and a much lighter, freshly brewed beer to which brown sugar (or sometimes caramel or molasses) was added. ...
Oude Kriek is the most traditional fruit beer and is brewed using 100% lambic as a base. Cherries are macerated in lambic to obtain this beer (e.g. Mort Subite, Boon, ...
Versnijbier or blended beer, is brewed by blending old and young beer or mixing beers of spontaneous fermentation with high and low fermentation beers (e.g. Petrus Aged Pale, Cuvée Watou, ...
Vlaams Bruin is associated with the region around Oudenaarde. These are beers with a deliberate lactic acid infection and often slightly sweetish. They are obtained by mixing young beer and ...
Flemish red-brown beer (5 - 6,5 vol.%) is brewed with reddish barley malts and is associated with southern West Flanders. They are obtained by mixing young beer and “old” beer ...
Oud Bruin' / Flemish Sour Ale’ is collective noun for Flemish Brown and Flemish red-brown beers. ...