GF Brewing to Style Guides
The GF Brewing to Style Guide series was launched on the Zero Tolerance Facebook group in January 2022. The goal is to provide organized information on specific styles within easy to find summaries, referencing previous group discussion and links to recipes. On the Facebook group, we’ll keep these posts and comment threads grouped together using the Guides tab to make it easier to find. And they’ll each get a page in the wiki for improved formatting and linking. Each entry will pull together available GF recipes, any commercial examples, links to relevant ZT Facebook threads, and suggestions on grain bill, mash, extract options, yeast, etc.
Links to Style Guide Posts
Caveats for "brewing to style"
Having ways to describe and categorize beer styles is convenient but can definitely be taken too seriously. (This may be a particularly North American obsession). So don’t get too caught up with style vital statistics and don’t shy away from brewing something that technically doesn’t fall into an existing style. Remember that the “muggle” brewing world still pretty much has no clue about millet, buckwheat or other gluten free fermentables and it’ll be up to gluten free brewing pioneers to either push the envelope of existing styles or define new ones altogether.
We may reference the BJCP style guide, a well-known tool for describing beer styles and providing short-hand references for style parameters, but again this isn’t the first or the final word on brewing or beer styles. As the authors of that guide point out in their preamble, those guidelines are not due to divine inspiration – just people trying to describe beer. Styles evolve. Ingredients change over time.