Earlier today, I asked people on Twitter for a count of commercially available beers by style. I received a lot of resources, but no exact counts. I haven’t contacted the Brewer’s Association yet for exact figures, but my friend Tyler wrote a script to help count the beers in each style on the Beer Advocate website, which I feel is a pretty good source for this information. I’m writing a post where this information is useful, but here is the raw data from the Beer Advocate site. Thanks Tyler!
These data are accurate as of around 5pm on August 18, 2009.
| Style | Total |
| American Amber / Red Ale | 1621 |
| American Barleywine | 455 |
| American Blonde Ale | 801 |
| American Brown Ale | 590 |
| American Dark Wheat Ale | 64 |
| American Double / Imperial IPA | 668 |
| American Double / Imperial Stout | 303 |
| American IPA | 1814 |
| American Pale Ale (APA) | 1994 |
| American Pale Wheat Ale | 727 |
| American Porter | 1288 |
| American Stout | 806 |
| American Strong Ale | 339 |
| American Wild Ale | 148 |
| Black & Tan | 49 |
| Chile Beer | 64 |
| Cream Ale | 236 |
| Pumpkin Ale | 228 |
| Rye Beer | 262 |
| Wheatwine | 52 |
| Belgian Dark Ale | 293 |
| Belgian IPA | 88 |
| Belgian Pale Ale | 805 |
| Belgian Strong Dark Ale | 478 |
| Belgian Strong Pale Ale | 524 |
| Bière de Champagne / Bière Brut | 13 |
| Bière de Garde | 170 |
| Dubbel | 336 |
| Faro | 15 |
| Flanders Oud Bruin | 70 |
| Flanders Red Ale | 84 |
| Gueuze | 43 |
| Lambic – Fruit | 203 |
| Lambic – Unblended | 39 |
| Quadrupel (Quad) | 102 |
| Saison / Farmhouse Ale | 498 |
| Tripel | 489 |
| Witbier | 871 |
| Baltic Porter | 209 |
| Braggot | 37 |
| English Barleywine | 177 |
| English Bitter | 1148 |
| English Brown Ale | 674 |
| English Dark Mild Ale | 302 |
| English India Pale Ale (IPA) | 328 |
| English Pale Ale | 843 |
| English Pale Mild Ale | 107 |
| English Porter | 309 |
| English Stout | 239 |
| English Strong Ale | 202 |
| Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB) | 745 |
| Foreign / Export Stout | 128 |
| Milk / Sweet Stout | 253 |
| Oatmeal Stout | 458 |
| Old Ale | 200 |
| Russian Imperial Stout | 499 |
| Winter Warmer | 421 |
| Sahti | 20 |
| Altbier | 378 |
| Berliner Weissbier | 47 |
| Dunkelweizen | 355 |
| Gose | 13 |
| Hefeweizen | 1317 |
| Kristalweizen | 102 |
| Kölsch | 381 |
| Roggenbier | 40 |
| Weizenbock | 193 |
| Irish Dry Stout | 347 |
| Irish Red Ale | 294 |
| Kvass | 144 |
| Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy | 403 |
| Scottish Ale | 415 |
| Scottish Gruit / Ancient Herbed Ale | 41 |
| American Adjunct Lager | 979 |
| American Amber / Red Lager | 254 |
| American Double / Imperial Pilsner | 60 |
| American Malt Liquor | 112 |
| American Pale Lager | 315 |
| California Common / Steam Beer | 141 |
| Light Lager | 571 |
| Low Alcohol Beer | 153 |
| Czech Pilsener | 586 |
| Euro Dark Lager | 265 |
| Euro Pale Lager | 1287 |
| Euro Strong Lager | 221 |
| Bock | 506 |
| Doppelbock | 478 |
| Dortmunder / Export Lager | 275 |
| Eisbock | 27 |
| German Pilsener | 1066 |
| Keller Bier / Zwickel Bier | 233 |
| Maibock / Helles Bock | 473 |
| Munich Dunkel Lager | 463 |
| Munich Helles Lager | 404 |
| Märzen / Oktoberfest | 839 |
| Rauchbier | 102 |
| Schwarzbier | 332 |
| Vienna Lager | 309 |
| Happoshu | 66 |
| Japanese Rice Lager | 41 |
| Fruit / Vegetable Beer | 1128 |
| Herbed / Spiced Beer | 434 |
| Smoked Beer | 90 |
Fantastic!
A def post to keep resident at all times on this blog. Super cool.
PJ!
It’s been to long since I checked out your blog you have done some good work on this thing.
The list is also impressive. I think the numbers are always going to be tricky. Different brewers will use different categories for their stuff.
I am a bit of a home brewer myself and always love beer talk. Maybe one of these days I should try and get you on my site for an interview.
Be Well,
Casey