Style family · 6 styles · node 11 of 11

Specialty

The everything-else drawer: smoked beers, chili beers, kvass-adjacent experiments, and whatever the TTB agent had to read twice. The most fun ledger in the corpus.

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On record: 960
This week: 13
Median ABV: 5.5%

Styles in this family

Fruit Beer 421Spiced / Pumpkin / Honey 366Non-Alcoholic Beer 109Smoked Beer 36Rye Beer 27Gluten-Free / Reduced 1

Fruit Beer421 on record: Fruit-defined beer that is neither sour nor IPA: raspberry wheat, shandy and radler, a peach ale. The fruit must be declared, so the label reads clearly. Summer-weighted filings, and a family with outsized label art — fruit sells with pictures.
Spiced / Pumpkin / Honey366 on record: Spice, herb, pumpkin, honey, coffee outside a stout, and the holiday beers: the seasonal shelf. Pumpkin filings arrive in summer for an autumn release; winter warmers clear in early fall. The spice list is on the label, which makes this node one of the most legible and most calendar-bound.
Non-Alcoholic Beer109 on record: Non-alcoholic beer, under 0.5% ABV, in any style: IPA, stout, lager, wheat. Filed under its own TTB class, which makes it easy to separate, and one of the fastest-growing corners of the register. The style words on the label still apply; a non-alcoholic hazy IPA is filed as both.
Smoked Beer36 on record: Rauchbier and other smoked beers: malt dried over beechwood or another wood, the smoke carried into the glass. Rare filings, mostly from houses with a German program or a brewer making a point. Smoked on the label is plain; the wood is sometimes named, and worth noting when it is.
Rye Beer27 on record: Rye-forward beer outside the IPA family: roggenbier and rye ales, spicy and dry from the grain. A small node, because most rye beers in the American register are rye IPAs and file there. Where the label leads with rye and not hops, this is where it rests.
Gluten-Free / Reduced1 on record: Beer brewed gluten-free from sorghum, rice or millet, or gluten-reduced with an enzyme; the label must say which, and the register records that claim as written. A small, growing set of filings, often from dedicated producers. We do not verify the claim; the label makes it.